BLOW AT CAMBRAI

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 9

BLOW AT CAMBRAI

BRITISH ON NEW DEFENCE LINE \ ENEMY RUSHING UP Si REINFORCEMENTS ■■■■'■ IN ITALY ASIAGO PLATEAU STREWN 'WITH Austrian dead ■.:■ ■ MUNITION SHIP BLOWN TO ATOMS The German.pressure ori the Cambrai battlefront is still being maintained, but the British, 'haying taken up a new defence line, are now able, to face with confidence tEe irorst the Germans can do. ■ The cessation of hostilities on the RussTan front has given the enemy an opportunity, of which, if the congested state of the German West-bound transport traffic is any indication, he has not been slow ■ {o• avail himself. Altogether, it'is stated, the actual loss of ground entailed by the retirement isv.about one-third of the gains "secured by tho sensational "tank" offensive on Byng's front two ■weeks ago! A dreadful carnage is reported frojn.,the Italian battlefront. • The Italians have yielded ground slightly, but in the process ■ the Austriaris have sustained enormous losses. To further hearten • the Italians, the United States, freed from tho' embarrassing entanglement of Austria, will as soon as possible come to Italy's aid with men, snips, and supplies. The Bolshevik peace deputies have ha 3 their first conference with the German representatives, and the proceedings, fully reported, show tfiat the Bolshevik ffemands were Qirect and sweeping, and the German replies evasive. The armistice has been extended' for a week. A' munitions ship, fulfy loaded, has been blown into space as the result of a collision with another, snip in the great CanadianrAtlantio harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The accident had an appalling sequel. - Bo terrific was the force of ine explosion that half the city was laid in. xuins, railway tracks were thrown off the lines, and hundreds of people were either killed or injured. ' ■ .