POSITIONS IMPROVED IN SPITE OF DIFFICULTIES
■, ' ■■-.-■ ~ : — . i A FRESH CHAPTER OF HORROR Heavy and continuous rain;, flooded country,, and a stiffening of the German defence along the region of the Hindenburg line are factors contributing to the situation on the Western front to-day. The dispatches indicato that no major oporations are at present in progress, military activity being confined to local engagements. Sov''sral counter-attacks of , the enemy have been repulsed at various points. Tho latest noiys from Russia shows that the situation in ' that portion of the country in the .control olt the. Bolsheviki is as bad as it could possibly be. The. ghastly saturnalia of official murders continues. The latest victims, so it is reported with a certain amount of circumstantial detail, are the ex-Tsarina, and her four : daughters. The Dowager Empress was also threatened, but was flayed/by the sailors, of the Black Sea Fleet.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 305, 13 September 1918, Page 5
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