BRILLIANT ATTACK BY THE AUSTRALIANS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 5

BRILLIANT ATTACK BY THE AUSTRALIANS

STEADY RETREAT FROM THE LYS SALIENT'ASSASSINATED BY A WOMAN <•. As was expected from the nature of the advance, Peronne- has ■ fallen into the ; handsof the Australians,' operating in conjunction with London troops on that sector. ■ The net also swept in several villages. Peronne is merely a hen, p. of ruius, but the adjaoent high 'ground which has also been captured is of tactical value. On tho Lys salient 'the enemy is evacuating positions' which he had previously won at heavy cost, and which now fall into pur hands with trifling losses. The "British aro now across the Lawe, and still advancing. On the French front General Mangin, attar a severe fight, has taken Crecy-le-Mont,.overlooking the Valley of the Ailetto. The Americans. . .'have stormed. Juvigny, wresting it from tho' Germans for the second .time. The Russian.news provides an" unexpected sensation in the assassination of Lenin, the head and.front of Bolshevism, and jointly responsible .with Trotsky for the shameful treaty of Brest''Litovsk. . 'His assailant, a woman of the. Social Revolutionary Party, fired o three shots at close.'range. .. . ■" '• ,' '