GERMAN RETREAT AT LENS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3123, 29 June 1917, Page 5

GERMAN RETREAT AT LENS

BRITISH -PRESSING HARD /ENEMY NON-PLUSSED i RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR JUST AVERTED LENINE PLOT FRUSTRATED MORE ABOUT MESOPOTAMIA MUDDLEMENT The; British, maintaining their inflexible pressure on the retiring Germans at Lons,.are steadily forcing them out of the city. The enemy, blinded by our air supremacy, is desperately striving to discover Haig's next point of attack, and is distinctly apprehensive. On the AustroItaliau front the enemy claims to havo recovered certain positions, and taken a large number of prisoners. A dispatch from Home states that the Austrian divisions from the Russia n front which Teceatly reinforced the enemy on the Italian front have again been transferred east. Fighting is reported from Galicia, where the enemy's artillery activity is reported to be intense. The Euesians aro making steady progress with their new offensive in Asia Minor. Of greater moment'than, their military operations, however, is a startling series of events which culminated in the frustration of a Leninei te plot to throw the country into the horrors of mil war. The good sen sense and patriotism of the Workmen and Soldiers' Congress, which stood by the Government, saved tho situation. Lenine, the agitator, has just been convicted of intriguing with Prince Leopold of Bavaria for a separate peace. Tho latest reference to the Mesopotamia Report merely ad ds to the crushing indictment of official stupidity which appeared yesterday.