The Elbert County tribune., 1916-06-09
czAR's STEAM ROLLER THROWN
AGAINST WALL OF DEFENSE
ON EAST FRONT.
LINE 200 MILES LONG
ROME REPORTS AUsTRIANs HE'LL
FROM FURTHER ADVANCES
BY ITALIANS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, June THE Russians con-
1 tinue to develop the successes won
by their newly-inaugurated offensive,
according to an official Petrograd
statement. 1t Is reported that up to
the present time they have captured
! % 900 men, II cannon and Is machine
guns. 1t is estimated that the Rus
slams in their new offensive cam
paign on the southwestern battle
front are opposed by forces number
ing between 100000 and 100000. The
line between the Pripet marshes and
the Rumanian border is more than
$50 miles in length.
Fighting In the Verdun region has
developed into artillery duels with
the Fort vaux-Damioup sector the
center of the greatest violence. No
material gains reported.
Austrians are being held from fur
ther advances and with heavy losses
by the Italians, according to Rome.
The Turks in Asia Minor near Bal
burt and Erzingan, have again at
tempted an offensive against the Rus
! slams, but Petrograd says their eff
fotrs failed.
Constantinople. The reinforced
Turkish army in the Caucasus whicn
late last month began an offensive
campaign. has driven the Russians
further back, the war office an
nounced
Petrograd. Russian forces have
won great successes along the front
from the Pripet marshes to the Ru-
manian frontier. according to an off
cial announcement issued here 1t is
stated that the Russians took 1900
prisoners.
Rome.-Austrian attacks in the La
garina valley, where vigorous az
tempt was made to carry the import
ant Italian position at Conf Zugna
were repulsed with heavy losses. the
war office announced. The Austrians
also were driven back while endeay-
oring to advance in the Posina sec
tor, the report states. An Italian re-
tirement under an attack by superior
forces in the Cengio zone is admitted.
Contrary claims continue to be put
forth by both Berlin and London on
the naval battle off Jutland. England
now declares two more German
dreadnoughts, the Lutzow and Hin
denburg, were sunk.
London, June 6.-The British ad-
miralty issued a statement saying
there was the strongest grounds for
the belief that the British navy in
the battle with the Germans off Jut
land May 81 had accounted for To-
tai of eighteen German men-of-war,
and that there was nothing to add to
or subtract from the original an
nouncement of British losses.
The statement gave the German
losses as two battleships, two dread
nought battle cruisers, four light
cruisers. nine torpedo boat destroyers
and a submarine.
1t is feared that the loss of life will
exceed 5000 officers and men. The
German loss must have been almost
as great as that of the British.
London, June 6.-Previous to the
battle of May 81, when twenty Eng
l.sa and thirteen German vessels were
destroyed. and many disabled. Great
Britain had lost during the course ol
tne war ten battleships, eleven cruis
ers and various smaller craft Ger
many had lost eighteen cruisers, nine
teen auxiliary cruisers. chiefly con
verted passenger liners and numer
GUS smaller vessels.