WEDGE DRIVEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 7

WEDGE DRIVEN

BATTLE OF ARRAS DEVELOPS DANGEROUS MENACE i . < FURTHER SUCCESS IN HEAVY V; : SNOWSTORM : GREAT RIOTS IN GERMANY ■ HAMBURG LIKE BESIEGED CITY RUSSIA AND THE EXTREMISTS A heavy snowstorm is impeding the British advance at the .. battle of Arras, but in spits of the difficulties creaied by the impossibility of observation of fire, fresh successes have been achieved, and the operations, says Sir Douglas Haig, are developing "satisfactorily, according to our plans." Correspondents' dispatches reveal further instances of the collapse of the German morale in the ■ vicinities where the fighting has been exceptionally severe. Reuter's correspondent states that one result of the operations lias been to create a sharp salient—a wedge—in the German line, constituting a dangerous menace. Great riots are reported to have broken out in several large German cities, and the German authorities-are stated to be apprehensive'of a general spread of l the disorders, especially at the big seaport of Hamburg, which 1 has been put in a ■ . state of siege, with machine-guns at all street corners. The events on the Western battle front have caused consternation in the Fatherland, and a strict censorship has been placed on the German dispatches. In the United States the biggest war loan in history has been adopted by the Federal House of Representatives, and. a conference with the Allies on naval questions is now in session. Details of the bomb 1 outrage at Philadelphia reveal the fact that a ghastly catastrophe has resulted from the machinations of the German, plotters. The present state of the Russian situation is not unsatisfactory, but it is clear from the correspondents' dispatches that the Provisional Government is having a. difficult task in' coping with the extremist section of the ' revolutionary movement. So- ' cialist pressure is stated to, have caused the Government to recede from- M. Miliukoff's declaration with regard to the future of Con- . stantinople.