CRISIS APPROACHING ON THE SOME.
ANZACS IN THE FIGHT.. RUSSIAN BLOW IN TIE NORTE VON .HINDENBUSG'S LINE FORCED. ' BACK. • THE PIRATE WAR. NEUTRAL VESSELS SUNK. T'ho great battle on the Somme has entered upon a etago of intense fury, fighting has been resumed upon a fivo-milo front from Poziercs to Guillemont. Positions haTO been taken, retakon, and taken again, and : in the words of one newspaper ("The Times"),' tho crisis of the battle is imminent. The Anzacs are in tho fighting line. On tho Russian front events are developing, but details of tho progress of the big stroke on the Biga .front are meagro. The Gormans aro reported to have been thrust well back. In the south, General Sakharoff's brilliant successes have added al hugo total to the enemy's casualty list, while Russian cavalry parties aro raiding in Hungary. Tho, Grand Duke's forces in the ' Caucasus are'rapidly pushing westward, and hare jiow got control of tho great highway from Brzerum, Trebizond to Erzingan. Theroare 110 striking developments in the other theatres. Tho pirato sea war seems again to have been put into operation, and to-day wo aro told that noutral. vessels have been sunk. ■
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2832, 25 July 1916, Page 5
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