War in Europe.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3247, 3 July 1917, Page 5

War in Europe.

IMPORTANT BRITISH ADVANCE. French Heavily Attacked. The British are driving their way tow rds Lens against positions of great strength and importance, which the German? are h)1 iing with determination in spite <>f their statement that Lens was long ago given up as a fighting /one The advance was made on a four mile front astride the Souchez river, and the entire defences were captured to * depth of a mile. The British losses were slight and heavy punishment was inflicted on the enemy. •The French have been very powerfully attacked in two places, east of Soissons just above Craonne on the sector from Cernv to Corbeny, and also further along westward of the Meuse from Avocuurt to Mort Homme in the neighbourhood of Verdun. The attacks were pressed with the utmost violence and determination. the battles raging back and forward, and ultimately leaving portions of the first line m pus&essiun of the enemy. Tne French s'tat" that the German losses were particularly heavy. GREECE. > GREECE SEVERS RELATION'S. WITH CENTRAL POWERS. London, July 2. Greece has severed relations with the Central Powers. VIRTUAL STATE OF WAR Athens, June The Greek Ministers at Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople and Sofia have been recalled. A state of war virtually exists and it is expected that Germany will declare »var. The Allied troops have left Athens, a Venizelist regiment replacing them. GREECE'S PLACE WITH THE ALLIES Athens, June -iU. M. Venizelos, in a eppech at his hotel yesterday, declared that Greece's place was beside the democratic Powers fighting the Central Empires, with whom were allied Greece's hereditary enemies. He concluded by referring to the reorganisation of the army. The Government would, with a view to military training, call up the classes for I'JIG-17, and would strive to reconcile the two sections ot the army. FOREIGN AMBASSADORS DISMISSED Athens, June .'{(). The ForeigJ Minister is making a cldan departmental sweep, t'he Greek Ministers at Berliu, Petrograd, and B -mo have beau dismissed.