GERMAN TRICKERY & GREEK TREACHERY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2879, 18 September 1916, Page 5

GERMAN TRICKERY & GREEK TREACHERY

The British Press is ringing with our latest achievements on the Bomme. .toother splendid assault, accompanied by "swooping aeroplanes" and charging, motor-cans —weird steel-clad armed automobiles that took entanglements, trenches, ■ and. . shell-craters in their stride, bo to speak—has been brilliantly successful. Tho now line, firmly held, includes three entire villages—Courcclette, Martinpuich, and Flers—oach twico as big as Guillomont, This exploit, coupled by the successful operations of the French, at Bouchavesnee and Clery, and their splendid assault at Le Pries, practically seals the fate of Cbmbles. The true measure of the value of these successes is reflected in agonised squeals from the German Press. Prom the point of view of pure sensationalism as distinct from its military importance,—moro or'less negligible—the kidnapping of an entire Greek army corps from Kavala is easily the most outstanding feature of tho news from the Balkans to-day. Thirty-six thousand—the German estimate—completely equipped for war, have been deported to and interned in South Germany on a pretext duly set forth in an official explanation from Berlin, and read with undisguised contempt by the Dutch Press 1 . The Serbians are pursuing a victorious offensive in their Bector of the Northern Greek line, and their cavalry is operating near Monastir, in. Serbian territory. Russian troops have, juncytioned with the French in North-western Greece, where the pressure on tho Bulgars is'being steadily maintained. Tho Germans and the Bulgais olaim a decisive victory in. the Dobruja,. but, at the time of writing there is nothing official either from Petrograd or Bucharest to indicate how far this contention is true. Tho Italians have brilliantly opened a new offensive in the Carso. Meanwhile the Russian authorities maintain a baffling silence over their operations in Galicia and Transylvania. •