NEW MOVES BY THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3121, 27 June 1917, Page 5

NEW MOVES BY THE BRITISH

FIGHTING TOWARDS OSTEND CLOSER; GRIP ON LENS VANISHED SHIPS SIMMERING SENSATION IN NORWAY The brief announcement yesterday that the British were at Lomlaertzyde, within' nine miles of Ostend, receives amplification to-day in a dispatch which indicates the possibility of a new move on the Belgian coast flank of the long Western line. At Lens, too, there are signs of coming events in a move that has given the British a closer grip of this strongly fortified city. The enemy's activity on the French front has materially lessoned.' An Austrian dispatch indicates that the Russian artillery is activo in Galicia. In Russia itself, the outlook, according to a correspondent's dispatch,, is serious as regards food and industries. An Anarchist outbreak at Helsingfors has been suppressed by the authorities, and the ringleader sent to a lunatic asylum. The Allies are having some trouble with the Mexican Government, which has imposed an oil tax so extortionate that ,tha United States Government has entered a protest. M. Zamis, the Greek Premier, has resigned, and the way is now open for M. Venizelos to lead his country once more. A great'sensation is simmering in Norway in connection with the German ocean bomb outrages and the mysterious disappearance of Norwegian ships. The-bombs were smuggled into the country as "diplomatic luggage."