The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-07-15
ITALIANS REPORT
PROGRESS TOWARD
CITY OF TRIESTE
GREAT BATTLES IN WEST
Magnitude Of French Opera
tions North Of Arras Indi-
Gated By Terrible Slaugh-
ter Of Recent Campaign.

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London, July 13.-Comparative calm
exists in the various fighting areas
with the exception OF the Austro- ItaI-
ian front where the Italians claim q
substantial advance in their efforts TO
invest Trieste.
Petrograd is elated at the Russian
success over the Austrians. who are
said to have lost one OF the three corps
which began the advance against Lub-
lin. The entente allies are reminded,
however, that this is only a local
triumph on 40 miles of a 1.0o0-nnile
front.
Railroads Are Safe.
Austrian operations against the War
saw railroads have been checked IL not
thwarted. which that the threat
ened advance on Warsaw is a little
less dangerous than when the Austro-
German attack began.
Teutonic In Russian armies are IN
an apparent deadlock south OF Lublin
where the northward sweep OF the
Austro-Germans was halted last week.,
Petrograd reports continued fighting
along the front extending from Josefow
on the Vistula to Byehawa, approxi-
mately 80 miles to the eastward. The
Austrians ave again become aggres-
sive here, according to the Russian
statement, but their attacks were re-
pulsed.
Western Losses Heavy.
The more spectacular operations in
the east have for three months over
Swallowed the western operations
where in the region between Arras and
Bethune the French claim to have
made material advances through a
labyrinth of German defensive works
and to have inflicted losses Of 100000
upon the Germans. Heavy fighting
continues in this region as well as at
other points on the west front.
Whether the renewal of the Russian
offensive will prevent the Teutonic all
lies from diverting sufficient troops
from the east to the west to enable
them to launch a formidable offensive
against this line, is for the moment un-
certain. There has been no engage
ment on the west front that partakes Of
the nature Of a general assault. though
there have been deadly combat at iso-
lated points.
Permans Retake Ground.
Heavy fighting in several sectors OF
the front in France in the past "a
hours has resulted in a change of
ground at one point where the Ger
mans won a victory. They recaptured
the cemetery at Souchez, possession OF
which has long been contested.
German headquarters report a sur
prise attack near Altkirch, in Alsace,
resulting in the capture of a French
position along a 500-yard front. The
captors ultimately retired voluntarily
to their old line of trenches, the Of
fetal statement savs, taking some pris-
oners with them.
German attacks, which followed vio-
lent ~cannonading in the Woevre region.
were repulsed, Paris reports. Berlin
comedies that the French succeeded In
penetrating the German line in an as
sault neal Combres, but declares they
were soon driven out.
1920 Days of Slaughter.
Ha J,,oo,,a,+ roeoro-ao, ,oaoa+1x I,un
been made ito the f~erocity of the fight
ing which has been waged in that sec
ton of the western line between Arras
n Bethune where the French hav for
weeks been conducting an offensive cam
paign, but it remained for an Associated
Press correspondent to make known
just has been accomplished. Aft
er a survey of the battlefield he tele-
gro phs:
after battling 12o days for the billy
country between Bethune and Arras.
the French forces are in possession Of
all the en'inences looking out upon the
plain Of Flanders. Lille, Douai and
Cambria all are visible from the
heights of Notre Dame de Lorette, near
Arras.
THE French are in possession Of all
the broad, national road between Arras
and Bethune has been won except
Souchez.
Fighting Is Continuous.
THE most desperate fighting a
been along the short 10-mi1e front from
Arras to AK Noulette, which began
March 8, with the taking of a few hum
dred yards of trenches on the water
shed of Notre Dame de Lorette, where
there are the ruins of an old Merovin-
gian military road. Every day since
then some section of the German
trenches ave been taken, lost or re-
T, taken.
Each side has been employing
formidable artillery both of small and
heavy caliber, the French guns being
someWha1 the more numerous and
served with unlimited quantities OF
high explosive shells. A correspondent of
the Associated Press went through five
or six miles of the trenches formerly
held by the Germans and reconstructed
by the French who now hav abandon-
ed them 10 move forward
Losses Are Enormous.
Upward of 100000 Germans have
fallen or been captured in these
trenches, according to the French Of
fetal count since the second week OF
March. The French losses, the cor
respondent was confidentially informe5
while serious. have been much smaller
than those of the Germans. There are
thickets of little crosses made of twlgs
tied together marking the graves be-
tween the trenches. Some of these
graves have been torn up by the shell
fire.
almost every square yard of this
region is marked by miniature craters
caused by exploding shell. Spots where
shells penetrated the earth without ex-
ploding are indicated by signs bearing
the words: live she'll
L aEH