Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-09
British Advance Half Mile, and French Get Two Posi-
 tions Quickly.
RUSSIAN FORCES
 SWEEPING ONWARD
General Kaledinps Pushes Line FOr- ward 30 Miles. TentOnic Resistance Weakening-Germans Apparently
 Massing 'TrOpOs in the West.

and fog, the Franco-British offensive continues fiercely north of the Somme.
 The British, in conjunction with the
 French, are reported to have advanced g half mile on Saturday against the
 Germans. General Haig's forces also have made considerable progress at ] Contalmaison, where their position now is considered satisfactory"
 The French, in an attack on Harde- < court and Mameton, gained these de- sired positions in little more than half an hour. The Germans counter attacked twice against the Mameton position, but were repulsed. The S French inflicted heavy losses and took 260 prisoners.
 8 Artillery bombardment continues around Verdun. A fierce prebombard- ment by the British was followed by an infantry attack, which gained them < Judgment in a strongly defended Ger man position, known as the Boise de { Groynes. The Germans made strong x counter attack, but according to the British official statement it broke down.
 The Russian drive for Kovel is again in full swing on both sides of the railway from Sarny to the import ant junction point in Volhynia. Gen eral Kaledines reported further inn portant progress in his movement yes tErday, his lines now having been than 30 miles in this sector, until they extend from Letghniovka on the north t6 DruZiatyn on the south, the present front lying approximately 35 miles from Kovel
 TeutOnic Resistance Weakens.
 The Teutonic resistance, which a week ago had not only stopped but s WAs driving back the Russians along this front, apparently has been notably X NWeakened. Berlin and Vienna reported 9n orderly retirement here, but 6etrograd claims the capture of more than 2,OOO prisoners, numerous guns y and great stores of supplies, and men SMoned the sabering of numbers of Au4trians in pursuit after cavalry { charge.
 The pounding of General von Both mer's army in Galicia also is being continued by the Russians, who report the capture of another village and of more than 1000 additional prisoners.
 The German official statement has little to say of the fighting in the #Voihynian and Galician fields. It re- ports the repression of Russians at tacking Field Marshal von Hinden- < bktg's line, south of Dvinsk, and the x moving down of masses of Russians their futile effort to break the Ger AIan line north of Baranovichi, along akthe front from Verin to below Gero- \ 11ache. The battle in this latter sector III 1till in progress.
 Y Germans Mass Forces in West.
 Hhere seems little doubt that the
 1rmans have massed all their readily 1ched forces against the British in x 0rthern France, making General
 1lg's forces pay dearly for success. Berlin does not concede the claims M success by the British in their eff
 Jts to reduce the German salient N tering upon Contalmaison, and de- &fes that enormous numbers of X Eltish dead were left on the field H 4S4ore the German position in this x 1sation, after the fire from Teuton Attllery and machine guns had torn Into the masses of troops advancing to 4 attack. Similar heavy losses were gnffered by the French in an attack 4t0ng the Biaches-Soyecourt front of $1tlair offensive, according to the Ger
 4n headquarters report.
 HEzN%&S0SJ AASAeA4AS NOAIAHuCS HUI LII Ol g XSEaun, where the French are declared $ Berlin to have suffered heavily in 1Y1itless attempts to carry the Ger mn trenches on the Friode-Cerre X tidge.
 Russians Surround Delatyn.
 Recording to unofficial reports, De- lAtYn is surrounded on three sides, Eand the Russians having cut the east ssrA-most lines of retreat across the ' Garpathians, are on the flank of the X SAnstrians' new defensive lines run- @ming through Stanislau and Halicz. S General von Bothmer may be com x p&lled to fall back even further before he reaches safety.
 < Advancing all along the line of the { Lptsk salient, the Russians are now ' Threatening Novel from three points. sSCapture of prisoners continues and, according to Russian estimates, the total for months fighting is not 3ar short of quarter of million.