RENEWED FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12083, 11 August 1917, Page 9

RENEWED FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE. U-BOAT TACTICS—CONCENTRATION IN ATLANTIC AW NOBTR SEA, MAXIMILIAN HEN ON PEACE TERMS, ALSACE AND LORRAINE MUST BE RETURNED A UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION MESSAGE STATES THAT AT DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY THE BRITISH AND FRENCH LAUNCHED ATTACKS, THE FORMER ON A TWO-MILE FRONT FROM THE YPRES-ZONNEBEK E ROAD TO THE YPRES-MENIN ROAD, AND THE LATTER NEAR BIXSCHOOTE AND LANGEMARCK. THE OBJECTIVE WAS ATTAINED. AND A BRITISH ADVANCE OF 500 YARDS IS REPORTED. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG REPORTS HAVING SECURED THE REMAINING POSITIONS ON THE WESTHOEL RIDGE. A PARISIAN NEWSPAPER STATES THAT THE BRITISH ARTILLERY IN FLANDERS IS PEING INCREASED DAILY AND THAT AN INTENSE AND CONTINUOUS HAMMERING OF THE GERMANS IS IN PROGRESS. THE GERMANS ARE STATED TO BE CONCENTRATING ÜBOATS IN THE ATLANTIC AND THE NORTH SEA, LEAVING OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS AND TOE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE AUSTRIA NS. MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, THE GERMAN SOCIALIST WRITER, ADVOCATES THE RETURN OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE TO FRANCE AND OF TRENT AND TRIESTE TO ITALY. A SECURE PEACE MUST BE FOUNDED ON THE BASIS OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF NATIONS. THE BRITISH LABOUR CONFERENCE DECIDED BY 1,651.000 VOTES TO 361,300 TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STOCKHOLM PEACE CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.