The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
Russian Province of La bunka Taken Despite Des- perate Resistance-Petr0- grad Admits Defeat
GROWN PRINCE LEADS GERMAN FORCES ON
 THE WESTERN FRONT
French Claim to Have In- flicted Heavy Losses on Foe in Severe Fighting in the Argonme Forest

aIondon. July 3.-tioi30 n. m.)
 The armies of Emperor William and
 Emperor Francis Joseph continue their
 impetuous drive agninst the forces of
 Emperor Nicholas along n front meas
 urinx approximately 15o miles In
 southern Russian Poland and in GaIi- | eia
 | The Teutonic troops according to ths German statement, have gained posses.
 sion of the lowlands of Labunka in ths | Russian province of Lublln, despite stub
 born resistance. and also have advanced
 In pursuit of the fleeing Russians in tho
 Gnila Iipa section of GalIcla. | Petrograd admits the retirement of tho Russians across the Gnila Lipa and ex- plains that the retrograde movement | further to the north was caused by strong | hanlsing operations of the Austro-Cicr-
 mans against the Russian positions in the Tanew region, making them untenahe Russian military experts profess tp be- 1 iieve that the Gallelan campaign now is
 ended
 Severe Fighting | Fighting the western front has been especially severe in the Argonne forest where the German crown prince Is In command of the Teutonic forces. The
 French assert that they have inflicted heavy losses on the Germans in the com
 bats in this region. From Berlin comes
 the admission that the Germans have
 been forced to give up the gains made by them one the Hilgen ridge of the vosges
 mountains
 In the Italian theatre of operations the Italians claim to be making slow but steady gains though the Austro-Hungar- ians are augmenting their forces, and ths counter attacks are said to be becoming
 more resolute. Unofficial repoJs say that Tolmino on the Isonzo river. has been occupied by the Italians.
 In the Dardanelles the Turks claim to have beaten off renewed attacks of the Anglo French forces with heavy losses to their opponents.
 German submarine activity in the var zone drawn around the British isles has accounted for five more British steamers and one Belgian vessel, aggregatng 19.2s7 tons gross. The lives of all the members of the crews were saved before the ships were sent to the bottom by torpedoes or shellhre.
 Schooners Aground A Russian submarine in the Black sea l Sank tWo lurklSH SletHltiS anu d sdtiiht | ship, carrying provisions and coal, and 1 later engaged and drove aground three armed schooners near the mouth of the | Bosphorus.
 official Russian details of the naval en- gagement between German and Russian cruiser squadrons off the Swedish island 1 of Gothlsnd. in the Baltic. affirm that a German cruiser damaged and driven aground and that the other Ger man warships fled. Unofficial reports If l the enga cement, however, identify the dis- l abed vessel as the Geman mine-layer | Albatross and intimate that the naval action was stopped by the appearance nf a large German fleet.
 Military writers in Berlin estimate that in the eight weeks from May until June 27 the Germans captured 1880 Russian offfs cers and 520.000 men. and that they a'co took 300 field guns and ITO machine guns