DESPERATE FIGHTING ON BRITISH FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

DESPERATE FIGHTING ON BRITISH FRONT.

BRITISH STRAIGHTENING THEIR LINE. GENERAL HAIG CHEERFUL. BATTLE IN FAVOUR OF BRITISH. fc - I GERMAN DESIRE FOR PEACE. COMMITTEE UNDER HOLLWEG’S AUSPICES. Ever since tbe great offensive began we have wondered why the French had been enabled to meke more progress than the British, ihe tact seemed to imply a great superiority on the part of the Frenc >. Lord Derby, however, in an interview with the representative el an American paper incidentally reveals the reason. . The Germans had sensed the starting of the British offensive and had prepared for it. But they had not expected a French push and so had not L concentrated against it. , . The storm still blows, however, and onr troops are making specia y. tremendous assaults upon the German line with the object of straightening it and lining up with the French. In doing so they are earning t e most enthusiastic praise from the French. Besides pushing forward on other sections of the long front., e Russians are now about to attack the great Hindenburg. The Russians are pounding away at his position in the best style and it is reported that at the back of the guns the landscape is dark with men who will he launched upon the Germans as soon as the guns have done their work. According to a Japanese Admiral the Jutland battle resulted in the most glorious naval victory that ever Britain won. He does not expect that the Germans will emerge again during the war. Our ships worked such destruction upon their smaller vessels which are practical y the jackals of the hig vessels, and are their eyes, ears and protectors, that there is no possibility of the big vessels coming out again. The Germans are becoming more and more desperately enamoured of peace. They want peace, hut it is probably a German peace they want, while it is ours they will eventually have to swallow. It is significant, however, that a Fence Committee has been sat up under Hollweg’s anspiceS.