ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12175, 26 November 1917, Page 5

ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK.

BOURLON VILLAGE AND WOOD CAPTURED. >"* THE RUSSIAN QUAGMIRE, "CANNOT ESCAPE US." PRIME MINISTER'S CONFIDENT PREDICTION. HUN ATROCITIES IN PALESTINE. Sir Douglas Haig reports fierce fighting in the Cambrai region, the enemy making frantic efforts to maintain his positions. The British have regained possession of Bourlon Village, and all the dominating portions of the wood. The ''National Tidende's" Berlin correspondent reports that fighting between the Bolsheviks and General Kaledin's forces has already begun. The newspaper "Dagblad " states that all is calm in Petrograd. All goods intended for Russia have been stopped at Haparanda, and are being sent back. M. Kerensky is sending a message to Britain, and his secretary states that Germany cannot make peace, as the new Government does not represent Russia. The " Observer's" Petrograd correspondent says that it is difficult to see a way out of the political quagmire. An account is given of terrible Turco-German atrocities upon the Jews in Palestine. In the course of a speech, Mr Lloyd George said :—" If we secure the seas the enemy cannot escape us. We have him in a deadly grip." A German boatswain gives an account of the recent mutiny at Kiel.

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