The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-07
FOLLOW UP DRIVE
Russians Force German Retreat
All Along Front.
Capture 242,OOO Men Since Of
fensive Began.
.TEUTOhS IN TRIPLE DEFEAT
Russians Destroy German
Trenches With Artillery.
Now Hurl Fifty Shells Against
One in 1914.
TEUTONS IN TRIPLE DEFEAT

London, July IA wireless dis
patch from Romc says word has been
received there from Petrograd that IN
consequence of their triple defeat in
the sectors of Riga, Kolki and Bara-
novichi, the Germans have begun to
move their whole front toward the
west.
A German retreat all along the
line of the front in Russia from Riga
to Volhynia is reported today.
The unofficial news to this effect
comes from Petrograd through Rome
1t declares that a triple defeat for
the Germans in the Riga, kolkia and
BaranoVich. sectors caused them TO
begin a movement OF their whole
front westward.
Petrograd has recently announced
successes ir these regions
A great battle is raging along vlr-
tually the entire front of the British
offensive in northern France.
At day break the British launched
a new drive cast Of Albert lmpor-
tant tactical successes were gained
in several sectors, London announces.
Germans Regain Ground.
The Germans simultaneously at
tackled in force near the river Ancre
and north of Fricourt They sue
ceeded in temporarily occupying two
or three hundred yards OF ground
lost in the earlier British drives.
Meanwhile the French both north
and south of the Somme in the field
of the great allied offensive, are rest
ing on the ground won in their nota-
Bile advances of the last week.
There is a comparative lul in the
fighting around Verdun so far as the
actions on the right bank of the
Mouse, north of the citadel, are still
violent.
Russians Press Westward.
Petrograd, July Russian armies
in southeastern Galicia are now within
ten miles of both Stanislau and Mad
vorna and are pressing their advance
westward, despite increasingly stub
born Austrian resistance.
The Austrian force that evacuated
Mikuliczyn, giving the Russians COM
| mand of an important railway, are
| now retiring southwark toward the
| Carpathian mountains. An official
| statement from the war office today
announced fresh successes on several
sectors of the long battle front. In
| the fighting below Kolki, Tuesday an6
Wednesday, the cars troops captured
more than 800 officers and 7,415 men
a large part of them Germans; SIX
| guns, twenty-three machine guns, sew
eral thousand rifles, two searchlights
eleven bomb throwers and seventy
seven ammunition wagons. Thi
brings the total number of prisoners
captured since the offensive began tc
more than $4,000.
In Big Offensive.
| London, July THE Russians
have begun a tremendous offensiv,
on the Riga front where their artiller.
is destroying the trenches of the Ger
mans, says dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company from Vienna, via
Copenhagen.
The bombardment, the dispatch
adds lasted twenty-four hours ant
the Germans were helpless before tn,
Russian artillery which can now fir
fifty shells as against one in 1914.
Capture 7,715 Prisoners.
Petrograd, July 6, via London, Jul
THE following official statemen
was issued tonight by the war office
THE number of prisoners we tool
on July 4 and 5, during the fightin,
which still is going on west of the lin
of the Styr and below the town o
Kolki, totals more than 500 officer
and 7,415 men, mostly unwounded. w
also captured six guns, twenty-five
machine guns, several thousand rifles
two searchlights, eleven bomb throw
ers and seventy-three ammunition
lights.
I'VE repulsed violent German at
tacks near Gruziatyn. On the RICH
bank of the Dneister in the region o
Jidattcheff and Hotzizrz there wa
desperate fighting.
''There was lively artillery duel il
many sectors OF the front north of tn
Pinsk marshes. East of Baranovich
the enemy launched several desperat
counter attacks which we repulsed
Several times the enemy opened gust
of fire with his heavy and light gun
against the region of the village o
I.abuzy, east of BaranovichL Unde
cover of this fire the enemy deIivere
. two violent counter attacks w
drove him back on both occasions
bringing to bear on him the fire of GU
artillery, machine guns and rifles