BRUSILOFF'S DECIMATION OF AUSTRIANS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 5

BRUSILOFF'S DECIMATION OF AUSTRIANS.

accounts former a million. FRENZIED GERMAN ATTACKS. BRITISH SMASH SIX CONSECUTIVELY.

18, LLOYD GEORGE’S QUESTION

WHY SHOULD BRITONS MOT SING?

That (he German Man of Mystery is very strongly averse to losing a,* inmlets lie talked of yesterday to the British is indicated by the (that he has made no less than six desperate assaults upon the posi1, recently captured by the British The coming and enforced going '1 the German attackers must have provided a splendid opportunity for British gunners. „ , The success of the Anglo-French offensive on Wednesday appeaisjp i nhced the Allies in an excellent position for an advance on ComI Vhicli is described as a veritable fortress. The French in the In, are threatening Maurepas and the British to the north have Gmljemoat under their guns and the capture of both places seem to be

jiprfftJH SOOD. . - A German correspondent of the New York Times gives a vivid desiution of the destruction caused for miles behind the German lines by ‘he tire of the Allied arinies-a land desolate and towns m utter rums It is not in bricks and mortar only that destruction has been wrought. There has been a vast amount of landscape nmving and of subsoilmg stic h will have to be set right again by the poor farmer. , Mr Lloyd George has been attending the great Welsh musical festiat which he asked, “Why should we not sing, There is every ‘on why we should. Victory looms ahead; Britain has found its irength awakened to its vast possibilities in everything desirable, and contemplates a future absolutely unique and glorious in the experiences cfnatious. Let the pessimist wrinkle in a jolly way his lugubrious thiziognomy and pour out his voice in song. Selah ! It would appear from many signs that the Germans are hard pushed for men at the front They are now utilising men who were engaged in ibeJutland battle, which indicateslthat they have no intention of tryin. conclusions with the British Navy at present. ° AI fast we have an estimate of Austrian losses by Brusiloff’s offence from an Austrian source. The Austrian Red Cross figures give the iota) as exceeding a million. One would think that Botlmm and Pflan.w would now be the only two opposing the Russians.