BEYOND THE HINDENBURG LIVE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 5

BEYOND THE HINDENBURG LIVE

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ON GROUND UNTRODDEN SINCE 1914

GREAT ADVANCE SINCE YESTERDAY

FRENCH GAIN OVER SIX MILES

AND RECAPTURE FORTY VILLAGES

The victorious advance of i the Allies in tho West continues, and on certain sectors, notably on the French front, the enemy's retreat has been speeded up on, n. front of nearly twenty miles. "Today," state tho Frenoh official commimiques, "we advanced more than ten kilometres (over six miles),'at certain pointe, and recaptured forty villages, with three trains of war material." To the north, on the British front, progress has been no less' impressive. At one point the British have penetrated the Hindenburg line to territory untrodden by Allied troops since 1914. Chaulnes has been occupied by the French. Bapaume will automatically fall into our hands as soon as the outflanking operations have sufficiently developed. Its end cannot be far off. The situation in Siberia is officially admitted in London to •be a mystery. The ,only source of reliable, information about the position is Tokio, and tho Japanese authorities aro most reticent on the subject. One message to-day etatee that tho Bolshevik river flotilla,on the TJsuri has been dispersed, i' . . ;