The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-18

STRUGGLE AT EASTERN
FRONT STILL DESPERATE
Brussiloff Reported Gathering
Vast Requirements Of Men
and Munitions TO HurI Against
the Stubborn German Line
tAssociatsd Pres, BY Federal wireless. =,

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wirelsss.)
r oNDON, July l6.--From Mesopo-
l. tamia, In Asia Minor, to the Brit
ish Channel the fighting is grow.
ing in intensity at every battle front.
In western France the British are at.
tacking, and dispatches from Berlin
announce that the German general staff
has officially admitted severe reverses.
In the sectors Of the Stokhod river
battlefield the struggle between the
soldiers Of the Gar and those of the
two Kaisers continued without pause.
Great masses of Russians. are being
hurled against Field Marshal Won Lin
sengen's lines, and General Brussiloff
is reported to be gathering additional
thousandy of guns and vast quantities
Of ammunition in his determination to
break through TO Kovel at any cost.
Grand Duke Beats Turks
In Asia Minor the Russians, under
the Grand Duke Nicholas, are again
on the move against the Turks. The
Slav armies have had q thorough rest
aud reorganization after the fierce
winter and spring campaigns, and are
said to be well supplied with artillery
and ammunition, as well as vast num-
bers OF men, '.
Reinforcements of all sorts have been
sent from Russia to the Grand Duke,
and as result he has been able to
strike again, at the Turkish positions
in AImeniay tand 10 strike hard. ~
Naturally the fighting in the Somme
river theGter Is what is attracting the
greatest attention in France and Great
Britain. There Gen. Sir Douglas Haig
and Gen. Sir Frederick Wilson, who is
in direct command of the British divi.
sions fighting on the Somme, report that
the British have succeeded in taking
the second line of German trenches over
a front of more than four miles, and
in driving the Germans to their third
line Notifications.
British Gain Everywhere
Everywhere at this front, SAYS Sir
Douglas official report to the war of.
fee, made public last night, the terri.
torial and colonial troops of the Brit.
ish armies have done well. They have
succeeded in thrusting back the Ger.
mans despite the most determined re-
sistance by the foe, and the tremendous
counter, attacks launched in an effort to
stop the Briton advance.
In all more than two thousand pris-
ouers have been added by the British
fighters to the total already taken ON
the S0mme.
Berlin officially admits that the Teu-
tonic armies have suffered defeat on
this battlefield, and that General Haig
has succeeded in gaining much ground
over a wide front, but adds that the
rush has been stemmed.
Fight In Wood Intense
Particularly intense was the strue.
gle for Deville wood, which the Ger. |
mans held at the CONNIE ncement of the |
fighting. yesterday, but which was held |
by the British when the night stopped |
the battle for the time being. Here the |
British spared neither men nor ammu |
milton in the assaults they launched |
against the position.
The Germans chung desperately to
their trenches here, but were finally |
driven out. Almost Immediately they
began Misunderstanding in the hope
of being able TO regain the wood, which |
IL of cnn SiderRble local importance, but
the British war Office reports that all
attacks We're repulsed and cost the
enemy very dear.
Eastern Struggle Pierce
At Barn9oviehi, where for weeks the
Russi dIsf hhdsthe Teut0hic armies have
been Observation-Disclosures pthsr, so fierce,
~ the hghting was resumed yesterday
Is desperate fashion. Here the troops
under BrussilOff attacked with fury,
battering themselves against the Teu.
Tome lines. and making slight gains,
which they are reported to have lost
as soon as made.
Along the line of the Stokhod river
the Germans are attempting to throw
back the Russians, and have launched
series Of brilliant and well supported
attacks against the Slav positions at
Skrobowa village, one of the KEYS to
the St9khod positions.
In the official report from the Rus.
sian war office last night these attacks
are announced and declared to have
failed utterly under the whitening fire
Of the Muscovite artillery. This artiL
lery has blasted great holes in the mas.
SEES OF the TeutOn attackers, breaking
up their formations and littering the
field with the bodies of the dead and
the wounded.
Northeast of Friedrichstadt the Rms.
sian troops uttarked the German posi-
ti"ns upsue" ssfullV. Berlin reports, and
PetrOgrad announced that German as,
FHnlts southeast of Riga have also /
fRiled.