HEAVY FIGHTING ON CAMBRAI BATTLEFRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING ON CAMBRAI BATTLEFRONT

VON HINDENBURG'S AIM BOLSHEVIK HORROR ■■ COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LYNCHED The most critical moment in the Battle of Cambrai is past, states one of tho correspondents to-day; but, he adds, there is further heavy fighting in store. Von Hindenburg is not expcctcd to submit without further efforts in this hecatomb of German dead to re-estab-lish his lost advantage 011 this front. The British troops are fighting with magnificent spirit, and Prince Rupprecht has sacrificed thousands of men for practically nothing at all by way of advance or advantage. It is stated in one dispatch that tho Germans are pursuing a policy of desperate attacks, and will probably launch an offensive on an unprecedented scale as soon as the signs on the Russian front are definite enough to warrant a further withdrawal of troops and material for The West. In Russia the Bolsheviki have further darkened their career' of anarchy by lynching General Dukhonin, tho Russian Commander-in-Chief, who declined to associate himself with Lenin's peace intrigue. In the meantime, an armistice for forty-eight hours has been agreed upon between the Bolshevik leaders and Germany. President Wilson, in a ringing message to Congress, in which he asks that the country should declare war upon Austria in order to remove "an embarrassing obstacle from our path," makes it clear to Germany that she can look for nothing short of a fight to a finish—and a thorough defeat. In unmistakeable terms, the President declares America's intention to "see it through." There are no material developments in Italy or Palestine.