FRENCH GAINS EXTENDED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 5

FRENCH GAINS EXTENDED

CONQUEST OF THE AISNE HEIGHTS FURIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS HURLED BACK " RUSSIA'S LATEST CRISIS / SITUATION NOW IN HAND Tiio French "Blow on the Aisne heights has resulted in a valuable tactical ascendancy being gained on the commanding ground in trial region of the Western battle front. The Germans had set great store by tho Craonne position, as was evidenced by their subsequent counter-attacks—persistent and most desperate attempts— 'which were repulsed. Along on the British front the Australians at Bullecourt are holding a dangerous salient position, with Huns on their flanks, front, and rear, and already they have repulsed thirteen attacks since last week. The Russian situation now appears to have cleared slightly, and there is indicated a more definite rapprochement between tho Provisional Government and the Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates. The Russian newspapers insist on the gravity of the situation, and hint that the country may have to face the idea of a civil war unless the disturbances cease. In America the situation is unchanged. We have it on the authority of a New York paper that the United States Naval Department has evolved a plan which will absolutely solve the submarine problem.