The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

mert, according to the German head l quarters report
 Heavy fighting continues north of Yer ] dun, where the French are declared by Berlin to have suffered heavily in fruit less attempts to carry German positions
 on Froide Terre ridge.
 STEADY ADVANCE London July S.--In fierce fighting to-
 day on both the eastern and western
 fronts the entente allied troops made steady progress North of the Semme
 river, in France, the French troops, CO., operating with the British, captured the important villages of Hardecourt ano Mamelon and the British gained a half
 mile along a considerable front The Russians claim that their three irnpor- tant offensives-toward the railway june l ton at Baranovichi north of the center | of their long line; toward the even more 1 important railway center of Kovel I further south, a well as in Bukowina-- are gaining steadily.
 | The Austrian official statement claims ! that the Austro-German forces repulsed the Russians, who made repeated attacks | in great sses northeast of Barano. vichi, but says significantly that the de-
 fense was conducted in completely de- molished trenches, which appears to show l that the Russian artillery is plentiful ir the north. as well as in the south 1 The Russian version is that cavalry closely followed by infantry, were press ! ing the retreating enemy forces, and 1
 vitchie on the Kovel-Sarny railway, after , taking towns both north and south of the ! railway, and are also astride the Pinck- l Kolk highway, thus gaining two strong strategical foothods.
 Hard fighting before Kovel may be ex pected, as the Russians estimates that five
 army corps of Germans and Austrians are defending the southeastern approaches to that town.
 | The Russians claim to have taken an additional 4O0O prisoners in the recent | fighting and to have captured a number 1 of guns.
 BRITISH STOICAL The remarkable calmness and stoicism 1 the British have maintained throughout | the war have been preserved during the week in which the new British army emerged from the strain and monotony of trench warfare to engage in violent battle. If the newspapers and the de- meanor of the people are taken as the gauge, the country is satisfied with the progress made. It is more than satisfied who are pitted against the most seasoned veterans of Germany.
 1 There is no expectation of sudden or sensational victories, no illusions regard l ing the heavy toll of the lives of the ] best young men whom all the European powers are throwing into the struggle and no demonstration of rejoicing or mourning.
 l All the correspondents with the army report that the British regiments--the
 majority of them old country regiments, the army-are proving themselves the lequal of any soldiery in Europe. More over, there is the satisfaction that finally l the British contingent is credited with being the equal of any other army in artillery which the enemies of Britain 1 have always asserted could not be ex. temporized in year or in a decade, while l its airmen are confidently believed to be
 the superior of all the others except the 1 French. | A view of the results held here is that the Anglo-French advance against posi- tions which the Germans had nearly two years to prepare has accomplished more l in week than the Germans have gained at Verdun in four months. shortag l of guns and a shortage of munitions are handicaps which no longer weigh upon the mind of the government. if the utterances of both civil and military officials re. fleet the situation accurately.
 FRENCH FORTIFYING