IMPORTANT BRITISH ADVANCE.

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

IMPORTANT BRITISH ADVANCE.

A BIG STRIDE FORWARD. ON A MILE FRONT. London, August 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports a further important advance of four hundred yards north-west of Pozieres on a front of nearly a mile. The losses were light depsite a heavy barrage. ALLIES’ MILITARY OPERATIONS A COMPELTE AGREEMENT. Main Service. Paris, Aug. 13. A Foreign Office communique says; As the result of an exchange of views between M. Briand and Mr Lloyd George, it can be stated that complete agreement exists between the Governments regarding the point of conduct of military operations. PENALTY FOR FAILURE. ; GERMAN GENERAL’S PUNISH- ‘ MENT. „ PLACED ON RETIRED LIST. Berne, August 13. The Kaiser has placed Von Tufifel, commander of the Fourteenth Corps, on the Somme, 'on the retired list after the British successes. BOMBED. NO DAMAGE DONE. Li'idon. Aug. 12. Two seaplanes dropped four bombs on Dover. So damage was done, except that an officer and six men were slightlv injured. STEAMERS TORPEDOED. Louden, August 12. A French steamer and two Norwegian steamers were torpedoed off Barfleur. FAVONIAN SHELLED WITHOUT WARNING. SUNK BY A SUBMARINE. London, August 12. The look-bnt man on the Favonian, which was submarined, has reached London. He says the vessel was shelled without warning. The ship stopped and the crew took to the boats. The submarine sank the Favoninn. An Italian passenger steamer appeared and the submarine sank her, keeping up the lire while lowering the boats. _ Several, including a woman, were killed. A third steamer was sunk. The sur-. vivors, in three boats, made for Marseilles.