DEADLY WORK IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3065, 28 April 1917, Page 9

DEADLY WORK IN THE WEST

SCARPE BATTLEFIELD A SHAMBLES

FRIGHTFUL HAVOC BY THE BRITISH GUNS

SUBMARINE MENACE

FOOD CRISIS SAID TO BE GRAVE

INTERNAL DISSENSIONS IN GERMANY

Graphic stories are told in the dispatches by the correspondents on the Western front of the progress of' the . great ■ battle. The slaughter—of Germans—has been simply frightful, due to the desperate and persistent character of the enemy's attempts, to recover what to them must have been extremely important ground, and the deadly superiority of the British. artillery. One Pomeranian division was practically annihilated, while a Prussian regiment 'was ' mown down to the last man: The battlefield at Gavrello is a shambles, and the German dead are lying in heaps. The enemy delivered a violent attack on the French line at C'ern.v, on a front of 1-1 ■ -.miles,, but broke.down with heavy losses. There is no news of much moment from the other battle-fronts. The Russian guns in the East are becoming active. A campaign of organised seduction is going on in the German trenches facing-the Russians. Placards, offers of goodwill, suggestions for a mutual oease-fire, aro being conveyed to the Russian trenohes, but with small success. The submarine menace is attracting considerable attention in Britain, where, it is stated, the food crisis is undeniably grave.