The Penn's Grove record., 1916-06-16
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AGAIN ATvERDUN
Repulsed by French in Repeat
ed Mass Formation Attacks
North of ThiaumOnt
ARTILLERY DUEL CONTINUES

London.-The Verdun battle enter
ed into its sixteenth week, marked by
determined but vain German infantry
attacks on the right bank of the
Meuse, north of the Thiaumont field
work, where the Crown Prince is try
ing to drive a wedge into the second
French line to aid his offensive to the
southeast against the two northeast
ern bulwarks of Verdun, Fort de Sou
vile and Fort de Tevennes. The at
tacks, which had been prepared by a
systematic and powerful artillery bonn
bardment, were repeated time after
time but, according to the FreAch, all
broke down, the attackers suffering
serious losses. Both Souville and Te-
venues were under concentrated Ger
man heavy gun fire for "a hours, and
an infantry offensive against either of
these two vital points is expected
shortly.
On the left bank of the Mouse a
sustained bombardment is being di-
rected by the Germans against Chat
tancourt, on the Avocourt-Y ases-Cu-
miers road, which is the immediate
objective of the Teutons of that side
of the river. A German attack west
OF Fort Vaux was repulsed.
Cold, rainy weather is prevailing on
the Anglo-German front in Belgium
and northern France and has put a
temporary stop to the fighting that
marked the last week.
Evacuation of Czernowitz, the CAPT
tai of Bukowina, by the Austrian army
was officially announced by the Rus
sian War Office, which added that as
the Russian troops drew near Czerno-
WITT, there were numerous explosions,
caused by the Austrians within the
city.
The number of Austrians captured
by the Russians in the new offensive
movement has been increased to more
than $4,000.
Czsrnowitz, which was first captur-
ed by the Gar in the Russian drive of
1914, and retaken by the Teutons in
1915, is in Austria-Hungary, situated
on a hill near the River Pruth, 146
miles southeast of Lemberg. Its popu-
lation is 10000.
h Germans went to the aid of
their hard-pressed ally in the south
and the Russian offensive changed
over night into a death grapple be-
tween Teutons and Russians that
promises definitely to decide matters
in the East.
CZARyc nPINE EI ANKo oEansn,e
London.-Defeated by the Russians,
the Austrians have in turn scored a
victory in the Tyrol. N~otwithstand-
ing the draft on their forces on the
Gallclan frontier, they have apparent
iy hurried reinforcements on the
Lagarina-Sugana front, where the Ital-
1ans had halted their advance. and
begun a marked offensive.
In the Asiago sector of this line,
after a desperate fight, the Italians
were driven back to new positions.
h is claimed by Vienna and admit
ted by Rome.
Vienna announces. also that since
the beginning of June the Austro-
Hungarians have captured 12,40O
Italians.
With each days official reports the
magnitude of the Russian successes
over the Austrians in Volhynia and
Gallcia continues to grow. In five
lays fighting, 1t is declared, the Rus
SLAMS have regained nearly 5000
square miles Of territory which 1t cost
the Germans and Austrians weeks to
conquer, and, have captured altogeth-
er more than &c. 600 prisoners, many
Germans among them.
The official bulletin reveals that
In Galicia the Russians have driver
through the Austrian lines to a dis
lance of nearly twenty miles, crossing
the Rivers Stripa and Koropitz, and
have reached the line of the Ziota
Lipa. 1t also declares that the Ger
ans are rushing reinforcements to
the threatened front in the hope of
checking the victorious Russian ad-
vance.
The total Austrian losses are re-
ported to have reached 250.OO men.
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