Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-09
OFFENSIVE.
NORTH Of SOMME
SHOWS NO LET-UP'
Haig's Forces Also Report.
Progress at Contal-
maisOn.
POSITION CONSIDERED
SATISFACTORY" NOW
Attack on Hardecourt and Nam
aleon Results in Capture of
Desired Positions.
RUSSIAN DRIVE IN FULL SWING
Their Lines Pushed Forward Along
Front OF More Than
RUSSIAN DRIVE IN FULL SWING
Their Lines Pushed Forward Along
Front OF More Than
Thirty Miles. s

Undeterred by rain and fog ths
Franco British offensive continues
| ncrcely north of the Somme. The Britt
| ish. in conjunction with the French.
are reported to have advanced q half
mile on Saturday against the Germans,
General FIaig'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 Mamaleon, gained tho de-
sired positions in a little moro than
| half an hour. The Germans counter
attacked twice against the Mamaleong
positions. but were repulsed. The
French inflicted heavy losses and took
$50 prisoners. Artillery bombardments:
continue around Verdun. i.S
4 fierce preliminary bombardmentb by
the British was followed by an sin-
fantry attack, which gained them
| Judgement in a strongly defended Ger
| man position known as the Bois-de-J
\ Trones. The Germans attempted a:
strong counterattack to regain this
position but. according to the British;
| official statement, 1t broke down under
| the British fire. Si5S
RUSSIAN DRIVE FOR KOvEL yS
AGAIN IN FULL SWING
The Russian drive for Kovel IL again
in full swing along both sides Of the
railway from Sarny to this important
junction point in Volhynia. General
| Kaledines reported further important
progress in this movement yesterday.
| His lines now have been pushed for-G
ward along a front Of more than thirty
miles in this sector. until they extend
| t,A,, no ~&h 49,
Gruziatyn, on the south, the present
front lying approximately thirty-hve
| miles from Kovel.
TEUToNIC RESISTANCE
| NOTABLY WEAK
| The Teutonic resistance, which r.
week ago had not only stopped. but
| was driving back the Russians along
this front, apparently has been notably
| weakened. Berlin and Vienna have re-
ported an orderly retirement here, but
Petrograd claims the capture OF more
| than 1000 prisoners, with numerous
| guns and stores, and mentions the
| sabering of numbers of Austrians ina
pursuit after cavalry charge. 9e
The pounding of General Won Both-
mers army in Galicia also Is being
continued by the Russians. who report
the capture OF another village and Of
moro than 1000 additional prisoners. #
The German official statement has
| little to say of the lighting in tllss
Volhynian and Galician fields OF opera.
ton 1t reports. however, the repres-5
sion OF Russian attacks on Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg's lines south OF
Dvinsk and the moving down OF masses
OF Russians In their futile efforts to.
break through the German lines north.
l-f Dor y;,1,, ofD tt,a Sr1x
zirin to below Gorodische. The battle
| in this latter sector is still In progress
MAKE HAIG's FORCES
PAY DEARLY FOR GAINS
| There seems little doubt that the
Germans have massed all their readily,
! available reserves against the British.
In Northern France. and are making
General Iiais's forces pay dearly for
| whatever successes they win. is{
Berlin does not concede the gains
claimed by the British in their efforts
to reduce the German salient center-t
ing upon Conta1maison, and declares
that enormous numbers OF British dead
German positions in this sector after
the fire from the Teutonic artillery
and machine guns had torn into the
masses OF troops advancing to the;
| attack ~''sst
Similar heavy losses were suffered:
by the French in attacks along the
Biaches-Soyccourt front of their offen-5
sive movement. according to the Ger-s
| man report.
Heavy ightinG continues north OF
! Verdun. where the French are declared
by Berlin TO have suffered heavily In
fruitless attempts to carry German po-
! sitionS on Eroida Terra ridrA ..aIiA.