Aller directement au contenu. Aller directement au menu principal. Quebec :Chronicle Printing Company, Established John Street. We t ok yrisoner 49 officers and 3. Conferences between German and Swiss delegates have been resumed in the attempt to solve the difficulties caused by Germany's demand that Switzerland permit exportation of cotton and other products collected by Swiss agents, Unless this were done, Germany threatened that she would prohibit exportation to Switzerland of coal, iron and other products essential for Swiss industries.
It now appears that the German delegates have withdrawn the threat :6 hold up shipments of coal and iron. The Allies, it is held, are executing to the letter their engagements with Switzerland and are dis- ed to do everything possible to facilitate of Switzerland's economic activity. Niagara Falls, Ont, Aug. London, Aug. According to The Nation. The clerk nar- nowly escaped being bitten by the voisonous spider. The French advance was in and around Maurepas, the scene of much hard fighting during the past few weeks, and the British gain was in the direction of Ginchy and Guillemont, near the southern end of their section of the fomme front.
The gains reported by Paris and London were in the tre oi the German positions on the Somme front and mark ano tep in the Anglo-French advance toward Combles. French troops gained more ground in the village of Maurepas. British troops advanced successfully in the region of Ginchy and Guillemont and seized more German positions.
London mentions no gain on any other part of this front. The Anglo-French forces captured more than prisoners in their advance. The French offensive continues on the right bank of the Meuse, in the Verdun region, and Paris chronicles the capture of two fortified redoubts north-west of the Thiaument work.
Progress also is reported for the French east of the Vaux-Chapitre wood. Berlin reports attacks by the French and British forces north of the Somme, but says all of them were repulsed except one by the British in the direction of Martinpuich. A French gain around Fleury in the Verdun region is admitted. There has been little activity on the eactern front accordnig to the official reports.
