FIRST PLIGHT OF BRITISH AIR OFFENSIVE ON GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 21, 19 October 1917, Page 5

FIRST PLIGHT OF BRITISH AIR OFFENSIVE ON GERMANY

FORTY MILES OVER THE GERMAN FRONTIER

(Ecc. October 19, O.'-'O a.m.) London, October IS,

Sir Douglas Uaig reports: "British aeroplanes earned out a very success!"! raid into German territory, and attacked a factory westward or Saarbrucken, forty miles beyond tho German frontier. Thoy dropped many bombs with good effect. Fires broke out in tho factory. All tho machines returned. -Aus.-A./.. Chblc Assn.-Eeuter.-, THE NAVAL OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS " . ■ ■■ London, October 17. The Admiralty reports: "Naval aircraft on Monday night dropped many tons of bombs on the Bruges docks. All (ho machines .returne<l."Aus.-N.Z. Cab:o Assn.-Eeuter. FIRST AMERICAN DIVISION REVIEWED (Rec. October 10. 1.15 a.m.) Paris, October IS. General Jofl'io and tlcnoral Persuing have reviewed tho first American Division ill France—AU6.-N.Z, Cable Aesd.

ELECTION DISORDERS IN RUSSIA SPREAD OF ANARCHY BOLSHEVIKS MAKING FRESH TROUBLE

„,. r. l-l , . • , Pstrograd, October 17. Iho Constituent Assembly elections will bo lield on November 25, vad tho Assembly will meet on December 30. Tho campaign is now beginning. Anarchy is spreading. There are agrarian riots, with looting and murder. Pood riots have occurred in many towns, and bands of soldiers aro marauding at various points behind tho fighting lino and in iho interior. Additional confusion is caused b,\* tho extremist Bolsheviks, insisting on summoning the All-Hussian Congress of Soldiers' and Workmen's Councils on November 2, with the object of overthrowing tho Government, aud placing the power in the hands of the Councils.—Aus.-N.Z. Ciiblo Assn.

THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN THE BALTIC ONE OF THE ENEMY'S DREADNOUGHTS RUNS INTO A MINE. (Roc. October 18, 5.5 p.m.) , _ . London, 'October 17. A Kussia.ii official report states: "The enemy pressed us back in tho direction of Mohn Island, interrupting land communications between Oesel and Mohn. Wa have completely lost touch with onr forces in Oesel. An eye-witness reports that one of the enemy's Dreadnoughts ran into a minefield on IViday. After an explosion the warship proceeded along the coa6t. Her fate is not known."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.-Iteuter.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. (Rec. October 18, 7.45 p.m.) ac m• i , , , ™ London, October 17. t , A ,«fpa? official report ftat&s: We aro now in full possession of Oesel Island. Naval encounters north of Oesel and also in the Gulf of Riga have resulted in our favour. Onv naval airships bombed Pernau, causing large fires."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn-Ucuter.

HUGE FLOTILLA OF GERMAN DESTROYERS AND SUBMARINES SIGHTED. ■ (Eec. October 19, 1.15 a.m.) Stockholm, October 18. A largo flotilla of Gorman destroyers and huge submarines is reported in the Sound, heading southwards. Never have so many German warships been teen at one time,. Four destroyers narrowly escaped running ashore.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

GENERAL ALEXIEFP SPEAKS OUT RUSSIA ONLY A LAY. FIGURE IN THE WAR, (Rec, October 19, 0.20 a.m.) London, October IS. The "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent states that General Alexieff, in a remarkable interview, declared that ho would not attend the Parisf Military Conference unless he were enabled to Bpoak on feehalf of the fighting array. 'The war was'a struggle between the Germanic and the Anglo-Saxon races, and the Russians were only lay figures. England would never end the war without victory and the utter exhaustion of Germany. America's entry had decided the issue independently of Russia, whose weakness had merely postponed the' victory. If Russia did not pull herself together and put forward a real fighting army, the issue for her^would be latnentabio. "I think if at the conference our utter feebleness is disclosed .Tapa.n mast enter upon the Russian stage of this European war. She will require compensation, and, naturally, tho weakest must pay. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.