HINDENBURG LINE ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3083, 14 May 1917, Page 5

HINDENBURG LINE ATTACK

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS BY THE BRITISH ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES AN EXTRAORDINARY 'MANIFESTO RUSSIAN DEMOCRATS WANT ; PEACE'CONFERENCE THE ANTI-ANNEXATIONISTS :< Tho British battering-ram lias once again been hurled at the Hindenburg line, with shattering losses to the enemy.. The operations were directed at -various points, and in all cases the objectives were gained. Heavy oouu ter-attacks by the enemy were, to quote the language of one dispatch, pimply "torn to pieces in tie terrible death zone swept by the British guns." Local actions by the French appear to have been successful in all cases, while coun-ter-attacks ■ have been suitably and effectively doalt with. One correspondent, writing from Headquarters, states that Prince R.upprecht, the German commander on the Hindenburg line, is fighting with his back to the wall,, con scions of the precariousness of his position should his line give way -under the tremendous pressure by the British. The Allies' offensive in the Balkans is developing into a series of important operations against an apparently well-organised and determined enemy. In Mesopotamia the Turks have been driven by the British into the hills, eighty miles from Bagdad. To the north-east the Russian operations are being continuously developed. Large forces appear to be opposed to their front, rendering a general advance a matter of time. The Executive Committee of the Russian Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, admittedly a powerful factor in Russian revolutionary politics, has published an extraordinary manifesto calling on the Socialists of all countries to assemble at a convention for the purpose of discussing the question of peace without annexation. It is made clear, however, that militarist Germany has nothing to look for from the Russian Socialists, who declare that so long as Germany is ruled by the ' Kaiser and the military caste, so long will the Russian bayonets be turned against her.