GOOD NEWS FROM MESOPOTAMIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 5

GOOD NEWS FROM MESOPOTAMIA

SOCIALIST REVOLT IN THE REICHSTAG Pram both the British" and French fronts, in the West the dispatches to-day convey inspiring news of frost successes. Fresh vilUgeshave been liberated from the Huns, and the infantry is now in ■ contact with the Hindenburg l&e. , Whatever may hare been entertained as. to the real nature of the German retreat aro definitely settled by Sir William Robertson's plain . statement that . tie Germans went back against their will. Considerable discontent ' is reported to be simmeringin the German ranks, both on account < of the treatment of the men by their officers —"like dogs"—and the treatment of their families in the Fatherland —"like cattle." 'Added to this is a sensational revolt in . the German. Reichstag by the Socialist Party, whioh is blocking the Supplementary Estimates, and ; • forcing the Government into 1 the position of• offering concessions and suggestions for a compromise on the situation. The internal situa- . tion in Russia is growing'more hopeful ©very day. The Government's latest coup is to announce that the Poles will he allowed to . settle their future for themselves in the best constitutional way— by representative convention and popular government constituted by the people. There is fresh news from Mesopotamia, where the British*advance is now majy milos north and west, of Bagdad. • -There is nd change in the German-American situation. Jfie conclusion of the German Chancellor's spooch, the essential portion of ; which appeared in a late cablegram on Saturday, dopiots the. Kaiser's representative in the Reichststag in a pathetic, endeavour to face the -facts of' the situation in China and .Russia.