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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 6

The British, have attacked on, a tAvo miles front, gaining' then whole of their objectives, including the village of Westhoek and the ridge named after it, five* miles due east of Ypres. Unofficially it is stated that the line -was advanced 500 yards. Sir Douglas Haig admits that, as the result of counter-attacks, the new line was pressed back slightly, .but further south, on the Steenbeck stream, the British increased their progress. The French have gained soma more ground east of Bixschoote, which is north-east of Ypres, and repulsed attacks elsewhere.

The Russian news gives more indications of a recovery of moral and fighting strength than it has done for some time. A partial offensive by the enemy in the Brody region (northern Galicia) has been repulsed everywhere with great losses, attacks in northern Moldavia have been repulsed, and heights lost a fewdays ago have been regained. As an offset, the Russians and Roumanians have lost some ground in the south-west comer of Moldavia, where their offensive was being pressed successfully quite recently. The battle is being fought now on the Suchitza. which flows in a southeasterly direction into the Sereth. The Roumanian communique nuts the position in the most hopeful light.

Mr Henderson, Labour meni* ber of the British "War Cabinet, haia re-signed from the Government, and his resignation has been accepted- Mr Henderson seems to have been in a false position since he attended, as Secretary for the Labour Party, the conference in Paris meant to be preliminary to the StockholmConference. A successor to him mnv be found in Mr Roberts, a Labour member who has held office in the Government, and does not share his views in regard to conferences. The British Labour Congress has decided, by a large majority, io send delecates to the Stockholm gathering. Apparently it did so under the impression that tlie Stockholm meeting is nr>nroved_ by Ihe Russian Government, which, Mr Lloyd-George states, is not the case. Dissentients from the resolution of the Labour Congress are calling f° r :1 referendum, which may moan reversal ol it, and there are increasing .indications that, if the Stockholm conference meets at all, it will be a Yi&ry unrepresentative and useloss gathering.