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., \ Bw QeahMUi have got thek ''second
? wind' and are fiercely raristlng Qie Bri
'tiih forces 'in the SrMt.' 8erere fighting
occurred on Sunday west of Cambrai. The
enemy. -it -midday strongly attacked the
British line in the MigllbotiriwDd'ot Boor:.
Ion-,, arid, pressed it back from portions of
&e viDage. . Our portions iaJBoarjon
Wood and on the high ground are'intut,
'Rgbting in ihe Hindenburg support line
vest of Moeuvres yielded prepD-M*.- ' The
total number taken between Tuesday. :and
Sunday m 9,774,- including ^-18? officers.'
Correspondents are telegraphing 'Mid^tir-,
ring reports of British viourjCini-the
battles. Ihe manner in which the 3rd
Army has adapted -itself to. the. new- con
ditions of warfare is (Gen.vHaig states)
'in all respects admirable, and the results
gained .will have breaching' importance.?
On a front of two miles, between Samo
gacux and tiierejpon south of Auglemont
Farm, French iroopshavebQllia^rtry car
ried the first atfd «econd enemy .lines, as
veil as deep dugouts on the southern slopes
of the Bokdcj CwuresTavine.. Up to Mon
-Jay. night. 800 .prapnershad been' counted.
The situation in Italy » improving: After
12 days' fighting in toe mountains between
the Kave and Brenta the enemy has. ad
Tancedjijut lost: from 60,000. to 80,000 men.
The pressure is .diminishing, and reinforce
ments are arriving. Mr. Ward Price ad
vised (JnfSunday morning that Ihe crucial
point in the battle was a 12-mile gap be
tween the Brenta and the Kave. Fierce
attack* and counter-attacks were proceed
ing about Monte Tomba and Unite
Grappa. The 'Germans could not descend
to the vpbnn' until *hey had captured
'Monte Tomba. The Anglo-French troops
had not yet participated in the battle, but
several motor, can full of British officers
»ere reconnoitring the battle ground;
Mr. W. T. Massey supplies a graphic de
scription of recent fighting in Palestine.
In old-time British cavalry charges the
Turks were routed, and the moral effect
upon, them is enormous. Apparently Gen.
ADebby is now concentrating a consider
able force lor attacks upon enemy posi
tkos around Jerusalem. A despatch re
ceived from Vienna says -that the new
Rnsnaa General-in-Chief (Gen. Krilenko)
basmade-a.ioanei proposal Jor an araris
iiee to ihe Austrian and Gennan com
cnandoB. Itw rumoured that the Bntente
Amtiwduu inU leave Buna during .the
BenVfewdeys. A Russian who ins arrived
at Hspsranda advises:— 'We are now very
near4o- peace. So soon, as the Engfimmeri
lane Russia a separate peace w21.be
-jun'iJy concluded.
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