The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-18
WAY TO HUNGARY.
OPEN TO The CAR.
Jablonitza, Gateway From Ga
Iicia, Captured by the
Russians
BLOW ON sOMME FAILURE

captured ~Jablonitza, one of the prin-
cipal gateways from Galicia to the
Hungarian plains, and Petrograd re-
ports that their offensive in this di-
rection is continuing. This is the
first news of an advance by the Rus
sian southern army since the conquest
of the Austrian crownland of Bu-
kowina was completed.
Farther to the north the Russians
are continuing their driving opera
lions against the Austrians with APP
parently uninterrupted success. Their
troops are pouring across the Zlota
Lipa at several points in spite of
desperate resistance on the part of the
Teutonic forces. Fierce fighting is be-
ing waged along the entire line south
of Brody and General Brussiloff is ap-
parently making a supreme effort to
cut off the army of General Won Both
mer and force its surrender.
AS far as the other theatres of war
are concerned, main interest centers
in the Italian operations. The Ital-
ians are vigorously pressing their adj
vance.
The Italian dreadnought Leonardo
da Vinci caught fire and olew UP in
the harbor of laramie, Italy, says a
Turin dispatch to the Paris Petit
Journal. Three hundred of her crew
were drowned. Her displacement was
$4,000 tons.
With a brief 1ull at short intervals,
like intermittent gasps fo- breath, the
Battle of the Somme and Ancre, the
greatest, b1oodiest, noisiest and most
terrific human conflict known to his
tory. is raging on. The battle is 10Y
at the end of the seventh week.
The ~contending armies are like two
frenzied bulls with horns locked,
struggling back and forth to the &C.
compartment of the maddest roaring
imaginable. It is a test of endurance
under conditions that would pale the
most lurid imaginative portrayal of
the most vivid fiction writer.
The French have made practically
no gains, and the British comparative
ly little. In seven weeks of murder.
GUS fighting the Allies have advanced
at their two deepest points five and
a half miles. This is only on two
comparatively narrow places on an
offensive front of approximately TWEEN
ty miles.
Barring a catastrophe on some
other front, there doesn't seem to be
much chance for the British and
French to break through.
RUSSIANS SMASH 2ao-MiLE FRONT
Petrograd.-All along a strongly
fortified front of $50 miles, extending
from the Rumanian border to the
Pripet marshes, which tie Austro-
Germans erected last winter, the
Russian armies have occupied the
main Teutonic positions before Tarno.
pol and Duczacz and the entire line
of the River Stripa. Here they cap
tured six strongly fortified villages.
The troops that made the new gains
in the Tarnopol-Buczacz sector were
commanded by Gen. Garbachiev and
Sakharoff. They took the villages of
Gliadki, Voroblevsk, Cabrof, Czena and
P~okropivna, all strongly fortified, and
then, forcing their way with great
bravery through the Burkanow for
est which the Germans had fortified
to protest Kosloff, took that village
by storm. Kosloff is southwest of
Tarnopol.
The entire line along the River
Stripa, which runs from northwest of
Tarnopol south to the Dniester be-
yond Buczacz, met the same fate.
While the drive for Halicz to the
south goes On n of the gains in the
new offensive in the centre also
threatens this important railroad june
ton on the Dniesiter, considered the
key to the Lemberg defenses.
In the centre offensive the Russians
crossed the Kopropico river in the
region north of Buczacz. This ad-
n adds to the peril of the Halicz
position, which is almost directly west
from the point of crossing. The Rus
slams captured Slobudkagurna and
Folvarki.