INCREASING PRESSURE IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7

INCREASING PRESSURE IN THE WEST

ST. QUENTIN IN SIGHT

TURKS' AGAIN IN - - RETREAT

FRESH SUCCESSES IN MESOPOTAMIA

A dispatch to-day raises the question of' the extent of the German retreat, and quotes the opinion on the . front that the enemy must inevitably fall back to the Shine.- St. Quentinas now menaced on two fronts by' the Allies, and by way of preparation for the evacuation tho Huns are systematically,ruining this fine old mediaeval city, and looting the art treasures. Tho activity on tho Belgian front continues, and there is hoavy-artillery firing in the region of' Dixmude. Sharp fighting is reported from the Carpathians, and also from tho Gorizia front, in the Italian theatre of the war. In Mesopotamia tho British have pressed their advance a further stage, arid forced the Turks fo resume their retreat. A report from New York asserts that President' Wilson has definitely decidcd oil.war, but this statement has a familiar ring. General O'Moore Creagh, formerly Commander-in-Chief in India, discusses a somewhat startling' topio in the "Weekly Dispatch"—will Britain bo invaded! lie thinks that raids, for the, .purpose of .-.pillage and devastation,, are possible, and, on the Hiudcnburg plan, not improbable. Ho bases' his speculation on the idea' that the Huns, before finally surrendering to "the inevitable, 'will rim' amuck in their death-flurry, in which con- , dition they are capable, of anything. > . '