BRITISH IN LENS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 5

BRITISH IN LENS

CONVERGING MOVE BY THE ALLIES

IMPORTANT POSITIONS

CAPTURED

PRISONERS NOW TOTAL 13,000 ■;'■;:..

PART ON THE SEA

■■CHAPTER OF PIRATE : : : CRIMES

To-day's' dispatclies from the. Western front fyake splendid and iiispiring readiiif;. The British attack is now a continuous and punishing pressure on this or that sector, each advance adding square miles to the area/of reconquered territory, more hundreds of thankful prisoners from the German lines,, and more guns, big, medium, and little, to be added.to the groat store of booty. The British and , Frencn attack just now is a-ssuming on the St. Quentin objective ' the nature of a converging move to isolate St. Quentin, and even , ■■. now the enemy is said to be busily engaged in sacking the city ■ prjoi'to evacuating it; Fires at L ens indicate- a further retreat in that quarter?" A dispatch'from Mr- Philip Gibhs nays a fine tribute ■to the splendid gallantry of the South Africans in last Monday's . .fighting. Events in Russia during the last few days have centred "■*' chiefly on the activities of'the Workmen's and Soldiers' Committee, and Socialists, against 'annexation,.' but apprehensions as to their capacity for making trouble are now removed —a resolution, carried by-a large majority, clearly defines the poligy of the Party, and makes the fact also clear that at present tho main idea is to .defeat the enemy. The Committee emphatically denies all connection • with £he rumoured Socialist peace mission to -Stockholm.-'.'General-' Iliescu, tho Rumanian Ch'ief of Staff, has unfolded to the world an !'•■ illuminating story of German perfidy. Hβ charges M. Stunner, the ; Russian pro-German ex-Premier,'with deliberately conniving.' at the defeat of Rumania beholding up the supply trains, and.so advancing .the German schemes for , a separate .peace 'with Russia, and the v , heartening up of Bulgaria and Hungary, The Hun pirates have tor- ■ pedoed'one hospital ship, and contributed by their floating mines to ', the. destruction of another. In the former case there were happily ..-.. few, if. any oasualtieß; in the latter, there was some loss of life. German sea prowlers are reported to be'off the American coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. ; • '• ,