BRITISH OPERATIONS FURTHER EXTENDED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 53, 26 November 1917, Page 5

BRITISH OPERATIONS FURTHER EXTENDED

100 GUNS CAPTURED

FRESH* .ADVANCE. IN 'PALESTINE

ITALIAN OUTLOOK MUCH BRIGHTER

Tho British operations on the Cambrai front, according to Sir Douglas Haig, are still in progress, and Fontaine Notre Dame has been recaptured. After the initial advantage gained by Haig's clever stratagem in omitting the usual artillery prelude from the programme, the British have had to fight hard to hold and extend their gains, as tho enemy since has hurried up reinforcements from every available source—including, it is said, the inmates of. camp hospitals—and hurled masses of men at the British line like sheep to the slaughter. On the Italian front the general trend of .the dispatches indicates a diminution of the Austro-German pressure, except at one or two crucial points, where the conflict is most desperato and intense, The Italians have successfully countered a series of heavy attacks by the enemy, and. in other ways demonstrated that they have recovered from their recent depressing reverses. General Plumer, who was in charge of the Battle of the Mesßines—ono of the most finished and effective pieces of work during the,war—has 1 been appointed to command the British expeditionary troops to Italy. The outlook in Russia continues to present chaotic features. Lenin's peace move has evoked some strong criticism. The Bolshevik hold on the affairs of the country is chiefly measured by the support of the masses andother unthinking sections of the populace. But the Allied Embassies ■ and Legations refuse to accept the regime. Lord Hugh Cecil's faith is in the Cossack leader, Kaledin, but the latter appears to have disappeared. The British in Palestine bavo achieved further success in their advance on Jerusalem.