THE GERMAN ADTANCE SLOWING DOWN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 5

THE GERMAN ADTANCE SLOWING DOWN

STRONG COUNTER-ATTACKS BY THE FRENCH PLOT IN RUSSIA VAST COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT SOVIETS RAISING CONSCRIPT ARMY The news to-day reflects on the whole a more cheerful tone, although much cause for anxiety still remains. The elemental factors in the situation have undergone no modification sinco yesterday, although advances here, and successful counter-attacks there, have been made. The pace of the offensive has materially slackened. Reims is still imcaphired, and there ure no fresh developments on the Marne. The enemy's real objective is still the subject of much interesting speculation. General Maurice says that the objective is General Foch's reserves, but that Fooh calmly declines to squander them, and is nursing them for the psychological moment. General Foch himself has uttered a veiled assurauce. In Russia tho intornal situation is slowly undergoing a definite, change. There is evidence'in an official message to-day that a strong anti-Soviot movement has been established to such purposo that tho Executive of tho Soviet has decided to conscript tno workers and poorer peasants for action against a widespread counter-revolutionary plot. Martial law: has been declared in Moscow.