Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-10

The French have returned to the offensive south of the Somme and have captured German trenches over distance of about two and a half
 miles east of F1aucourt and to a depth ranging from about two-thirds of a mile to a mile and third. They also captured by storm the village of Bia- cheS.
 The French have thus resumed their cooperation with the British who have been engaged in fierce fighting the statement from the British war office says, they have again made steady progress" in the face of stub born opposition"
 The German heavy guns have been bombarding all along the British front more actively than ever and the Ger mans, in two violent counter attacks, have made a desperate effort to re- take the positions captured by the British Saturday near the Trones Wood. Both attacks came under a 1 severe and effective fire from British guns and the British assert, complete I ly broke down.
 Regarding these operations German headquarters, while admitting the loss 1 of ground in the Hardecourt village, l declares that both British and French 1 attacks were repelled with very heavy
 losses at other points.
 | The losses on all sides are doubtless 1 heavy and that the British are pay l ing the price of their forward move ment is indicated by the casualty lists of the last four days, which report 628 British officers killed, wounded or missing.
 The drive of the Russian armies 1 along the whole of the eastern front l is greater than ever Apparently 1t is 1 sweeping on with increasing power. l The Russians have crossed at Ugli, which lies a few miles south of the railroad, but the Austrian official 1 statement mentions fighting at Stoby- chwa west of the Stokhod, which in- 1 the river about thirty miles northeast | of Kovel The Russian line, therefore, ] in this region evidently is a very eX- 1 tended one.
 ] The Associated Press correspondent l at Petrograd says that a surprise at 1 tack delivered along the Sarny-Kovel 1 line, while the Austro- Germans were ] engaged in defending the RovnO-Kovel l line, netted clear advance to the Russians of fifteen miles Official ! Russian despatches say that on the
 lower Stol1hod the Teutonic forces are
 retiring in great disorder.
 | The Austrians have not only been 1 successful in resisting the Russian ad- vance in southern BukoWina, which l crown land the Russians hoped soon
 
 dertaking an offensive. have succeed
 ed in forcing their way across the 1 AGoldava river. The Austrian artillery ] has also been very active against the Italians along the Isonzo front.
 Russians Join French on West Front.
 Paris. July 9.-The Excelsior says
 the Russian contingents which arrived in France recently and have been I quartered at Camp de Mailly, near | Troyes, have been sent to join the
 French forces at the front.
 Five contingents of Russian troops l landed at MarseiIles between April 20 and May 5, after a land and sea jour
 ney of about 17,5OO miles from Mos | COW to Port Dalny Manchuria, and i thence by water via the Suez Canal.
 The sending of the Russian troops was 1 largely in the nature of an eNperi- ment. It was said in Paris several i weeks ago that the first Russian con- l tingents, numbering probably about 1 1000 men. might be followed by more numbers, but no word has been re- 1 ceived of further arrivals.