THE EASTERN FRONT.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3852, 30 November 1917, Page 2

THE EASTERN FRONT.

GENERAL ARMISTICE

ACCEPTED BY GERMANY.

Advices received through New York state that the Germans have accepted the Bolsheviki suggestion^ of a separate armistice on the Eastern front. The Bolsheviki are shaping the alleged electton otf a Constituent Assembly on lines -to suit themselves, and are preventing all other parties from carrying on a propaganda. They also threaten 'iJhe better classes with terrible reprisals for their policy of passive resistance. The Cadet party is opposed to the policy of making a separate peace, and General Alexieff is endeavouring to form a new Government. German Staff Officers are now in Petrograld.

Stiff fighting is reported from the Cambrai (front. After a very heavy hand-to-hand struggle the British were driven out of Fontaine Notre Dame by the pressure of overwhelming forces, but they have again attacked} the village, and have renewed their grip on the northern half. Counter-attacks on Bourlon Wood have been beaten off.

Though the Austrian and German forces are still making strfong attacks on the Italian front, it is believed they have reached the limits of their advance, and that the country is now safe from further invasion. ....

During the first fortnight in November the Allies destroyed no less than thirty-nine enemy submarines.