WAS THERE A BLUNDER?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 9

WAS THERE A BLUNDER?

CRITICISM IN HOUSE OF

COMMONS

KALEDIN'S WAR ON THE BOLSHEVIK!

KORNILOFF BREAKS THROUGH

TO LINK UP

Tho German counter-blow at Cambrai, particularly that phase of it which enabled the enemy, by a surprise thrust at a thinly-held flank, has been the subject of. so mo criticism in fihe House of Commons. Mr. Bonar Law, in reply, Las informed too Houso that the Commander-in-Chiof has been asked to report on the matter, adding that those who.might be blameworthy would bo dealt with. With°regard to tne enemy's latest demonstration, at Bullecourt, Mr. Philip Gibbs states that thcro is yet no indication that the enemy's blow is moro than a limited local operation, on five hundred yards of front. There- is no material envelopment on the Italian front. To-day's dispatches give a general impression that the fighting is still very heavy, and the losses oh-both sides severe. Router's correspondent' at 'Italian Headq narters points out that the enemy's artillery is greatly superior, and tie Italian losses heavy, but so vacant is their defence that the enemy's losses have been at least •fifty per cent. The Russian Constituent Assembly has met, and, to judge from the reports by the correspondents, its inaugural 'session was a hollow, unenthusiastio affair, farcical and most unconstitutional in its proceedings, which were dominated by the extremists. Korniloff' has broken do wn the resistance of. the Bolsheviki, and is proceeding to link up with Kaledin. Sir Eric Gcddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a frank statement to the House of Commons on the submarine peril, says that the menace is still a real one. 'Hie enemy is building U-boals faster than we are destroying them and is sinking ships faster than we are building them. But steady progress is being made in the direction of counterbalancing the odds.