FIERCE BATTLES IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3168, 20 August 1917, Page 5

FIERCE BATTLES IN THE WEST

THRILLING STORY OF THE FIGHT AT LANGEMARCK

ALLIES' SUCCESS CONTINUES ■■-.GREAT. BATTLE. IN RUMANIA CHECK, TO VON MACKENSEN POPE'S PEACE NOTE CRITICISED \ .To-day's dispatoheg from the Western! front include Tivid descriptions of the fighting in the batUe of Handora. Hhe British and French positions along the front havo been improved and held against heavy coun-tor-attacks. Oα tho Aisne and tho Meuse the fighting has been to tho advantage of our Allies. Wholesale destruction has been wrought by our air squadrons operating behind the German lines in Handera, Northern Prance, and Alsace.' The situation on the Kussian main front disc-loses no material change, but that something in tho nature of an important movo by the Russians is foreshadowed by General Korniloff in an interview. Ho hints at a land and sea attack on the northern front, and important operations -elsewhere. The army is improving, and certain measures ho has advocated will still further enhance its value as a fighting maohine. The great battlo oh the Eumanian front, whioh stretches over a line' of one hundred miles, has readied ita tenth day, and according to the "Times , , , correspondent at Jassy, the Romanian -Army haa proved a formidable problem for von Mackensen, whose further advance has been checked; in spite of a steady supply of reinforcements, and terrible losses inflicted. An interesting statement on the situation on the Salonika front by Mr. A. J. Balfour indicates that operations on an important scale are not likely to be initiated in the immediate future. The Pope's Peace Note has evoked general criticism, to whioh a semi-official reply las been made by the "Corriere d'ltalia." :' '. >