TOFFEE'S CALL TO AMERICANS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3067, 1 May 1917, Page 5

TOFFEE'S CALL TO AMERICANS

The latest British attaclc'on the Scarpe outrivals in the ferocity of the fighting and the appalling devastation in the German ranks, anything that the annals of the great war have yet recorded. The correspondents at the front, by graphib descriptions of various incidents, reveal the true significance of the British official. phrase: "Several counter-attacks were dispersed by our artillery and machinegun fire." The ground over which the British are now fighting is extremely. difficult, and progress is necessarily slow ? but the weather is fine, and the aeroplanes—we have now rogained the mastery of the air—are getting in some splendid work. The British have seized the German trench works in.front of the Oppy line, and held it, while our long-range artillery, is firing shells into Queant, described as the bastion of the main Hindenburg line. Great praise is bestowed by correspondents on the quality of Haig's generalship, which discloses a masterly conception of the essentials to victory in attacks on selected objectives. ' There are no material developments en the French front. The most interesting item in tho dispatches from the Amorican'side is Marshal Jofire's call to the American people. He asks that men be sent to France at once, to be trained behind the battle front for. their participation in the coming battles. This, he says, is more practicable than training divisions '.hi America and risking large convoys of troops in the Atlantic crossing. A great campaign is in progress in England to awaken ' the public mind to the gravity-of tho submarine menace, and the necessity for whole-heartedly supporting the Government in its food economy .measures. . Austria, is stated to have greatly perturbed ' hep Gorman ally by conniving at semi-official statements in tho newspapers disclaiming annexation aims.