FRANCO-BRITISH SUCCESS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 2

FRANCO-BRITISH SUCCESS

Another German Line Captured

Comparisons Against the Kaiser

AUSTRIANS WANT PEACE WITH ITALY

Two Naval Fights Reported off Zeebrugge

Mackensen, Mystery Man of the Meuse

Thero is little real war news sent to-day, but what there is of it makes good reading. Tho Italians aro punishing tho Austrians, whose leaders are said to bo discussing tho possibility of making peace with Italy, so as to bo free to defend their eastern border—the very strongest argument against the Allies listening to such a proposal. The most significant news from Russia is tho report that General Russky, the hero of tho North in tho first phaso of the war, has recovered from his illness, and takes command onco moro against Yon Hindenburg. There are reports of two naval "scraps" off Zcebrugge, things are unchanged in Mesopotamia, and General Haig reports "nothing special" along the British front. It is stated that General Mack onsen, the Scottish-German, i.s in charge of the operations against tho British on the west, and that he is adopting tho old policy of tho Allies—Attrition. But he is too latel