Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-07-08
With Fresh Men, High Cal ibre Shells and Flaming
 Liquid They Progress.
RUSSIANS CHECK
 TEUTONIC ADVANCE
British Give Up Recently-t aptured Trenches Before Fierce Assault Oi PrussiOnS French Claim Gain
 Near Les Epargcs.

London, July 7.--Usin2 conccn- tratcd fire of high caiibre shells, whicj swept away the French en- tanglcments and pulverizcd their de- lenses. tho Germans, striking in the night. pushed their linf further for ward near St. Mihiel. in tha move n ont to encrcle Verdun, according to dispatches received here tonight.
 Reinforced by fresh levi 5, whicn it is not believed hava serv d .-~toFe in any Of the theatres of war. the Teutons while transporting great forces further west in prepar 3tion for a renewed drive on Calais, hav2 taken occasion in the st. Mihel section. to make side slap at the great for tross which bars the way of tAa Ger man legions to the heart of France.
 Paris admits that a German attack southeast of St. Mihiel on iron ex- l tending from he hillock which lomi- mates the west bank of the Meuse as far as Vache, in the forest of | Apremont, succe eded at FauX-rerry, in pen nctrating the French lines for a stretch of 700 yards. Later dispatches 1 state that the infantry actions have ceased, the Germans remaining m possession of the captured trenches, but being unable to extend their l g9inS
 British Lose Ground.
 Tn the fighting around Ypres, the British were not allowed to remain long in the trenches they captured southwest of tPilken during the early morning hours of yesterday, cccord- ing to dispatches from Berlin. Aftel occupying the trenches for the igreater part of the day, they were driven out by a German attack in the evening and now remain behind thell old lines.
 Fierce fighting, in which the Ger. m'ans are employing flaming liquids is proceeding in the forest of La. Pretre. Several German attacks were broken up, the French report and at one point. in the western part of the woods, the French. fighting with hand grenades, managed to re- gain 200 yards of trenches.
 Between the Mouse and the Noselle violent fighting continues, w''h the French and Germans alternately on the offensive.
 Southwest of Les Eparges, dhe French regained 100 yards ,oi trenches, but further along an attack on the Colonae trench failed com pletely.
 Arras Cathedral Burns. The Germans today admitted the destruction of the cathedral at Arras Berlin explains that nearby build ings caught fire from the German shells and the flames spread to the sacred edifice.
 Heavy fighting continues around the railroad station at Souchez neither side gaining. The Germans have directed three attacks at this defense, none of which has been suc- cessful while the French night as. saults on the German lines likewise have been repulsed. !, The force of the Teutonic drive in routhern Poland appears to have : slackened. and there is less apparen' ) anxieyt no wfor the Russian cam psign. Official statements from Vienna, however. claim that the Aus tran advance is continuing in al least one sector of the front, thai south of Warsaw.
 Petrograd asserts that a distinct check has been inflicted on the Aus. 5 tro-Hungarian forces near Krasnik this report contradicting the claims of Vienna.