TOLMINO NOW TAKEN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11646, 14 August 1916, Page 5

TOLMINO NOW TAKEN.

The French have scored a great success, having captured the third line of enemy trenches and taken Maurepas with a thousand prisoners and established a new [line from there to Hem. . They state thafthey are organising and consolidating their new position. Sir Douglas Haig is able also to give us the good news that he has advanced another fo,ur hundred yards on a mile front, which, in the fortified zone on which they are fighting, is a very good forward move. The Russian General. Brnsiloff, does not seem to have been very much flustered by the appointment of Hindenburg to the Austro-German command. The places with unprononncable names, probably rendered more terrible in transmission, which he is capturing, are becoming almost numberless, and his prisoners are now as numerous as a little nation. He has now taken Nadwoma, which is on the roots of the Car-

pathians. It seems to be a disheartening endeavour ou the part ot the Austrians to reinforce their troops opposed to the Russians, because as fast as they are sent to the front they are eaten up by the Russians. The statement must not he taken literally, Brusiloff’s strategy is that of a wily man. When the Austrians have drawn troops enough to' one point to stop the Russian advance he breaks through somewhere else. The German Social Democratic Party want peace which will bring them the friendship of neighbouring'peoples. etc, They need not have fought two years for that, They could have had it all for the asking and without the necessity of burying a million or so of their people. The Egyptian campaign is going on very satisfactorily. Our boys are unrsuing them hack through the desert at a rate of movement they have not been used to of late. They were nearly as long as Moses covering the road dividing the frontiers of Egypt from Palestine. They will beat his record on going back. . The Italians are following up their defeated enemy. Moving forward they see the Austrians retreating from Tolmino, and the town is now practically in their hands. Th« Austrians are also said to he re“enMng on a thirty-five mile front in Galicia. Taking into consideration that the Allies on all fronts are driving back the Huns there is no question as to their being in the vice at last.