CLOSING ON ST. QUENTIN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 304, 12 September 1918, Page 5

CLOSING ON ST. QUENTIN

FURTHER PROGRESS BY THE ALLIES I BAD WEATHER A HINDRANCE RED TERROR IN RUSSIA APPALLING ORGY OF ' . EXECUTIONS The cabled dispatches from the sent of war to-day make a fairly ■ light budget. The weather in the West is Btorray and unfavour- . able for the airmen, Progress on tho British front in the region of tjie country, flooded by the Germans is difficult, although the pressure everywhere is unrelaxed, and the line continues to advance at various pointß. The French also continue to make satisfactory progress. The advancing forces are closing in on St. : Quontin. . From Russia comes a dreadful budget of ill-omen. The Bolsheviki in various cities in the regions not in immediate danger from the 'Allied advance from the north or the Czccho-Slovak march from tho east have apparently abandoned themselves to an appalling orgy of cold-blooded slaughter. Every Bolshevik is at every other man's throat. Feeling the ruling power slipping from their grasp, they are resorting to a sort- of blind government by terror, in which hun- • dreds of hapless victims are sacrificed. The plight of. the foreign residents in Petrograd and other oities is indeed.full of peril, and *hey are beyond help in their dire extremity.