ELEVEN MILES BREACH IN HUNS LINES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11700, 21 October 1916, Page 5

ELEVEN MILES BREACH IN HUNS LINES.

Apparently the desperate straggles now proceeding on the Russian front are merely introductions to an infinitely more tragic and resound - ing conflict. Correspondents tell us that millions of men in two almost endless opposing lines are now only awaiting the fateful signal for the mightiest clash of all time. Let ns hope that the Germans will be ab^ solutely overwhelmed. Venizclos has expressed his intention not to have anything more to do with Constantine, not even if he repent of his awful sin of pro-Ger-manism, and a Ministry of War has been formed at Salonika as an indication that all Greeks patriots have pronounced the sentence of ex-coni’ mnnication upon him. We are getting plenty of assurances that the German monace to Roumania has now little chance of success. While the crisis may not be fully and safely passed the Hun finds himself restricted at present to grinding his teeth rather than the Roumanians. Sir Douglas Haig gives us a very heartening summing up of the situation on the front commanded by liim. A series of strong positions have been taken, along with 29,000 prisoners: we have established artillery superiority, man superiority and supremacy in the air. A French journalist pays a tribute to British daring by the statement that the British have made 8000 trips over the German lines to a dozen of like feats by tbe Germans. They seem to be a poor lot where nerve and initiative are required. The capture of Sailly Sailiisel by the French is said to have increased the dent in the German line to a maximum of eleven miles enabling the Allies to make a triple attack, and that the Germans are apprehensively taking to tunnels, But what if the exits of these tunnels are stopped by big British shells? There is evidently going to be a continuance of the Anglo-French offensive all through ihe coming winter. Last winter the Hun was able to transport men from one front to another as it pleased him. During tbe coming months, however, he is to be given no respite and no opportunity to shuffle men about.