Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-03

London, July 3.--Capture OF more
German defenses was announced In
an ofiicial report from General Haig.
commander OF the British forces, At
$3.50 o'clock tonight.
Heavy fighting at LaBoiselle. east
of Albert. is proceeding satisfactorily
to u.s. Haig reported. "The rem
nants OF the garrison have surrender
ed. On other parts Of the battle front
we have made further progress. cap
turing additional hostile positions.
A number Of aerial battles have oc-
Cured. Along the front six German
machines were brought down and Ave
damaged. Seven British aeropianes
are missing,
South Of the Ancre the battle
continues. hotly contested" added
Haig. "our gains of yesterday were
maintained In today's fighting."
London. July 3.--under q blazing
July sun. the allied armies are push
ing across the rolling farm lands Of
the Somme region today. In what IL
rapidly developing into the greatest
battle In the history OF the world.
The lighting not only IL growing
more intense with the arrival Of Ger
man reserves but threatens to spread
along the whole OF the l10-mile front
from the Somme to the sea.
British artillery has been pound
ing the German line In Flanders with
the most intense fire for forty-eight
hours. said a Rotterdam dispatch to-
day. The sound OF ships guns has
been heard along the Flanders coast.
Supposedly. British monitors have
Joined in the mighty symphony Of
artillery, whose rumble may even be
heard across the channel in London.
Berlin dispatches to the United Press
Saturday night expressed the belief
that the British will deliver their
most powerful stroke farther north
In Flanders. The gun Are on the
Flanders front continued throughout
yesterday without cessation. said the
Rotterdam dispatches, which added:
mo such tremendous cannonading
for such a long period without a
break has been heard since the first
coast battle nearly two years ago"
The lighting on the 25-mile front
over which the British and French
armies are driving eastward toward
the Peronne-C -CambraiIIille railway Is
costing huge losses In men. No es-
innate OF the British or French losses
has reached London, but the German
losses In the first thirty-six hours are
estimated to have been 10000.
In the village OF Dompierre alone
500 German dead were counted
after three French regiments had
fought their way In with bayonets
and bombs. Prisoners said many Of
the dead were men wounded by shell
Are before the infantry attack began.
The artillery's curtain fire made 1t
impossible to effect their rescue, They
bled to death under the hot sun.
The Anglo-French offensive, after
the first thrust deep into the German
lines, has now resolved itself into a
steady rolling movement. with Per-
onne and Baupme, apparently, the
objectlves.
The German counter-attacks are
hourly growing more vigorous and
have checked and bent back the Brit
lsh left. which advanced rapidly into
the village OF Serre when the offen-
sive opened Saturday morning.
The British center, north OF Al
bert. 10 making slow, methodical
gains, though also under terrific Ger
man counter-attaok.
East OF Albert, where the extreme
British right links up with the
French left, the bloodiest struggle Is
going on, Driven out OF l.aBoisselle
Triecourt and Mammetz, the Ger
lmans are lighting with desperation
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