TERRIFIC BATTLE STILL RAGING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3051, 12 April 1917, Page 5

TERRIFIC BATTLE STILL RAGING

11,0 P PRISONERS TAKEN ;''^."tefH^'flF'"fflSS : ' : Despite an unseasonable: snowstorm on the Western front, the great, sledge-hammer-attaok.'by the British- on the.. Hindenljurg. linehas: been, pressed; forward, with furious, vigour. The. latest, estimate of the prisoners places- the captures, at over; eleven thousand, with' ' over two hundred officers-,, and a. great haul of guns, ranging up to big-8-inch "heavies." In the. face of the Canadian attaok on, Vimy Ridge the morale of the. Germans was so shattered that the victors had more prisoners-on their haud'SA than the escorts could . cope withj and, the.- captives; 'themselves, directed- the late, arrivals to the barbed-wire- enclosures. The Germans- are firing heavily at. Reims,, and civilians, are stated- to have been, ordered to prepare-to. evacuate the city. Von: Eindenb.urg lias, uttered; to the: Berlin- co--respondent of a Spanish newspaper a remarkably, confident state- ' ntent of his.views on, the. general situation, with- special reference; to ; i the submarine war policy and:- the military situation East and West.. From- Mesopotamia comes a dispatch reporting further success by the British, and- indicating that-, the Turkß are contemplating a converg-, ' ing, movement by way of ' a counter-offensive. America's war preparations continue apace. The trail, of the German bomb-assassin is discernible in- a great explosion by which the Baldwin locomotive work* have- been, destroyed". Bomb plots at Washington are suspected, and steps; have been, taken to- cireumvetft, the plotters-. Brazil has, ; definitely broken with Germany; An interesting "review of the, pro- ; -, sent condition?-of the internal, situation-in Russia, from the,editor of the "Bourse Gazette," Petrograd', to- the newspapers' in* London, indicates-, that the; union, of- the army and the; Government is. strength* i ening; every day. The-armywill- fight for, the Government against' j . whatever danger threatens.