INCREASED ACTIVITY ON THE BRITISH FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5

INCREASED ACTIVITY ON THE BRITISH FRONT

GERMAN PICTURE OF FLANDERS BATTLE STEADY RUSSIAN RECOVERY' MORE.SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS / There is evidence of increased activity on' the Western front in today's dispatches. The JVeuch have advanced their line on the Bixschoote sector, while the British airmen are doing effiectivo wort: far over the enemy's lines. There is an improvement in the general tone of tho Russian dispatches, pointing: to a steady recovery. Tho number of local successes by the Russians is increasing, although the Teuton menace is still present, with a urospect of it becoming more formidable, if a dispatch.•which, announces heavy concentrations of Austrians and Germans is to be credited. Tho Russian Government has seized the archives of tlve Secret Police, and remarkable revelations are portonded. The British submarine week has been a bad one Twenty-one steamers of over 1600 tons have been lost, with two smaller vessols. Tho peace agitation in Germany is still very much alive, but has now assumed tho character of a national controversy between the pacifists and tho pan-German j.