FRESH SUCCESSES BY THE RUSSIANS
LULL ON THE SOMME ROYAL VISIT' TO THE .. fkont THE SOMME "MAN: OF MYSTERY" HUN PIRATES' " PROMISE" BROKEN ' •• . r ■ The lull on tip Sommo continues, while news of fresli developments on tho otter Allied 'fronts discloses no important developments, except on the Russian southern front. The Austrians have evacuated Jablonitza, which has been occupied by the Russians. Tho reports of General Bothmor's rotreat in Galicia aro confirmed by an' Austrian explanation (via Switzerland) of'the reasons for tlio retreat. Tho Italians liavo countered various desperato attacks by tho Austrians on tho Carso front, and "taken a fairly largo number of prison- \ ers—over ono thousand.' Tho German piratical war on tlio sea, pro- * fesscdly abandoned under pressure by the United States Government, has begun again. Apparently, says another, dispatch, Zeppelins arc to play an important part in future reprisal raids on England.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2852, 17 August 1916, Page 5
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