ALLIED SUCCESS ON ALL FRONTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16718, 10 August 1916, Page 5

ALLIED SUCCESS ON ALL FRONTS.

RUSSIANS, ITALIANS AND FRANCO-BRITISH TAKE OFFENSIVE.

GREAT ITALIAN ADVANCE.

IMPORTANT SUCCESS OH THE iSONZO-CARSO FRONT.

BIG RUSSIAN VICTORY.

ANGLO-FRENCH COMMENCE ANOTHER ADVANCE.

Definil© and substantial progress is reported this morning from all the Allied iu;mi<?sV In the Somine area the British and French have combined in a big offensive from ThiepvaL, the northern end of the new British front southwards i.o Koye, on v ironfc of 3-3 miles. This is regarded as a cover for a thrust

iira -certain part of the line, and the Germans are puzzled, anxious, and apprehensive as to where the blow »vUI fall. The French report a gain of C frq?n?3.oo to 500 yards m depth of German trenches on a front of over three miles. General Haig also reports substantial progress. , '

■ The Italians have launched a grand offensive in the Isonzo-Carso dte-triet,"-an<l are sweeping the Austrians befote them. At Ottynia the Russians are wfthin 12 miles of Stamslau, south-east on the railway, and this important town, should fa'i immediately. At Verdun the-French havo again recaptured the Thiaumont Work. .

Tactile Somme area the British t.nd French have initiated a tremendous offensive along the'whole front from Thicpval in the north to Roye in the ftoufh. They are pouring an avalanche of metal upon the German lines, presumably as a screen from which to make a vital thrust at a chosen spot. The cable indicates that a big and important movement is pending. Whether the p.'ofc'ent offensivejs a diversion to enable the British to capture the whole of the Grandeourt-Flers ridge, or whether, as is very probable, the intend ~i is to drive a wedge south of Peronne acioss the Somme canal to-

'wards St. Quentin, remains to be seen, but without doubt great issues hang upoOhe result of the present offensive.

TJie Italians are reported to have launched an offensive upon a sixty-mile front~in the Lower Isonzo area, and have made great captures in territory, prisoners, guns and munitions.. The Isonzo line is the least difficult route by which the Italians can strike into Austria, and the success they have had in the' Trentino will now enable them to concentrate their energies on the Isonzo-Carso front.

Tt now appears as though Stanislau would be the first big Austrian .town ■' tj fall. Having capture.Thumacz, and Ottynia,, the Russians are withij*rf2 miles of Stan'slau, which is a large town in Hungary, midway between "Gzcrnowitz and Lemberg, on the main railway line. "Further north the Germans have sent thrpe divisions iq Pomorzany and ,JR.atlzrecJw>tV-to assist in opposing the Russian advance. Pomorzany is 20 - miles* due west of Tarnopbi and Radzieohof is fifty miles north-east of Lemberg x>n the railway. The capture of Thumacz and Brody has made Tarnopol lintenahle, and the Anstrians are reported to be withdrawing from that town north-westerly by rail to Zloezof,. en route to Lemberg. North-eaet cf Lemberg the Russians are approaching the River Bug, which crosses two railway lines afc Kamionka-StrumUova and at Busk, both 20 miles from Lemberg/ Yon Hindenberg is apparently making the best possible use of his iailwayii in bringing up fresh reinforcements/, and it now appears as though Lemberg would be strenuously defended. _'..'* Thiaumont Work will probably become historical as having been taken and retaken more often ihan any othor fortification during this" war. Yesterday canio the news thai the Germans hrfd again captured it, but thig morning we leai-n that once ivore the French troops, with indomitable heroism had -retaken it. The persistent German onslaughts on Verdun can now hav^'only ono result—that of rapidly thinning the ranks of her investing army. Her" armies.on all fronts are gradually melting away, and too late she may shortly wish 'that she had transferred her Verdun army to the Somme.

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