EXTENSIVE WITHDRAWAL FORESHADOWED
THE STRUGGLE, FOR LASSIGNY MASSIF ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES ALLIES' CAPTURES OF' PRISONERS AND GUNS The situation in the Western battle area is broadly unchanged, though the Allies l.avo further.advanced, their lines on the Lassigny , massif and at some other points, and are maintaining incessant aerial attach) upon the enemy's communications. News from Russia indicates that the fall of the Bolshevik regimo is 'imminent, but also that in Petrograd and elsewhere the population is terror-stricken. It is feared that in the hour of their, defeat the Boletievild may ho guilty of .an orgy of atrocities.' It is reported that tlio Allies are taking energetic measures in the hopes of saving Czechoslovak forces which are scattered along . the, Siberian railway and are perilously exposed. The surprising announcement is mado that a British'detachment has readied Baku, on the western shore of the Caspian' Sea, after an overland journey through .Persia. The. Allied force defending Baku is said to consist of eight thousand men.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 7
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163EXTENSIVE WITHDRAWAL FORESHADOWED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 7
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