FRENCH SOUTH OF THE SOMME.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14865, 12 September 1918, Page 5

FRENCH SOUTH OF THE SOMME.

LQOAL FIGHTING IN BRITISH SECTORS.

REIGN OF TERROR IN RUSSIA.

The French and British lines are drawing near St. Quentin, the French'^eiag now two miles from the city. South yard of the- Soinme they continue to mak* progress, encountering sharp resistance. Ihe 13riiii.li repulsed in the vicinity of Gouzeaucourt and Epehy, and have advanced further in* the Lys sector The weatli^r is wet aad stormy. The news f'.om Russia to-day shows that the Bolshevist terrorism is increasing. The lives of the imprisoned Entente subjects are said to be hanging by a thread. Great hopes centre upon ths Czecho-Slovak campaign in Siberia.

fhe cable news m this issue accredited to "The Timw» ' has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial finmon of 'The Times."