DOLEFUL COMMENT IN GERMAN PRESS
THE IASSIF OF LASSKJNY POWERFUL BLOW BY THE FRENCH ITALIAN OFFENSIVE IMMINENT Tlio centre of interest on tho Western front, according to to-day's dispatches, is tho terrific conflict whict is Taging between the French and the Germans for the possession of the i-;asaif of Lassigny, which General Humbert is assaulting by flank .t'n<-'ics in order to avoid costly firontal attacks in the face of heavy machii:!-gun fire. One report to-day states that Lnssigny is now in French hai-ds, hut this lacks official confirmation. The French have gained the ascendancy, hut it may he two days yot before the enemy has-been coi jletely ousted. There aro no material developments on the remaindor of .he front. Bolshevik Russia, in the person of Lenin, has declared war o. the Allii'.s. an act which seems to havo had a pessimistic savoua- tc it least one German newspaper. The Germans are stated to he marching „n Petrograd. Firom the Italian Embassy at Washington comes the new- that our allies are about to launch a powerful blow on the Trentino front, near tho Swiss frontier. An intense bombardment has been opened along twenty-five miles of fxont. ■
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5
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195DOLEFUL COMMENT IN GERMAN PRESS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5
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