WEST FRONT.

Evening Star, Issue 16515, 29 August 1917, Page 3

WEST FRONT.

FRENCH VERDUN GAINS. ENEMY ACCEPT POSITION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, August 23. French communique: On the left bank of the Mense there are fairly violent artillery actions. The enemy have mado no attempt to attack our new position. FOR POELCAPPELLE. BRITISH RENEW ATTACK. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter. LONDON, August 23. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Heavy, rain fell all day. We attacked in the afternoon .eastward and southward of Langemarck," and the first* reports indicate satisfactory progress. We drove oft" northward of Lens, and brought down seven enemy aeroplanes. Admiralty per Wireless Press. , LONDON, August 28. German official: A strong English attack westward of Ypres failed. THE SERETH LINE. ATTEMPT TO TURN FROM NORTH. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association aud Keutef. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON. August 28. German official: We captured important positions eastward of Czernovvitz, and took 1,000 prisoners and sis guns. BLACK SEA OPERATION. Australian and" N.Z. Cable Association and , Reuter. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, August 28. A Russian official message says: Cooperating with the fleet, wo raided a port on the Black Sea. The cue ray llred from hospitals. We destroyed official buildings and blew np 11 motor boats and seven faluccas. RUSSIA. MOSCOW CONFERENCE. PETROGRAD, August 27. Sunday's meetings at MoscoV were devoted to a. discussion on M." Kerensky's speech by the separate conferences. Tho discussion by the various parties disclosed little signs- of agreement among the parties. Two thousand five hundred delegates will attend the full conference, which will be opened to-day. Life in Moscow is now normal, and the strike has ended.

Banter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, Angust 27. Prompt Government action settled the Moscow strike. _The military were called out. M. Kerensky telegraphed that ha was resolved instantly to suppress any disorder. " 'The Times.' LONDON, August 27. Mr Wilton wires from Moscow that the Soldiers and Workmen's Council's decision against any strike demonstration or interference with the conference proved insufficient to cope with the- Bolsheviks, who engineered strikes in the tramways, in the arsenals, and factories. Even the waiters in the hotels and restaurants struck. Hundreds of members of the conference ..went without; breakfast. The Bolsheviks oppose the conference, openly defying * authority- "Unfortunately t£te Government will neither enforce their authority nor checkmate the movement, which, if successful in interrupting the conference, will aeize the Government in its own hands. FALKENHAYN'S, JOB. " Renter's Telegrams. LONDON, August 27. ' TTbe newspapers {jive prominence to ' ■fetemants from Switzerland that Voh Falkenhayn is on the Mesopotamia front < organising an advance against Bagdad.

JUNKERDOM'S SUBTERFUGES. AMSTERDAM, August 27. Dr Michaelis, in explaining the Parliamentary Commission, emphasised the statement that it would deal with definite questions aucK as the Papal Note, _ but would not deal with general questions. The Commission was an experiment, and a possible step towards an internal political modification. He reiterated that he did not believe, in the wisdom of farreaching changes in war time, but he promised that Prussian electoral reforms would be duly enacted. The Reichstag • Committee generally favored the idea of the new Commission, but the Independent Socialists are dissatisfied, while the Conservatives have received the suggestion frigidly. STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. GERMAN TAINT EXPOSED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reutef. LONDON, August 28. The Press Bureau reports that the Germans, for a considerable time urged the Belgian Socialists in Belgium to participate in the Stockholm Conference, but the latter pointed out that it was impossible without a mandate from the party at a meeting at"' which a free expression of views was allowed. Ultimately the Germans consented to a meeting, which declined, with two dissentients, to attend the conference, even though British, French, and Italian delegates attended.