Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-07-13
BRITISH SWEEP
SMILE FRONT
Advance Two Miles in Offensive
on SOnne.
$500 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

Official Report Says Ten Days and
Nights of Continuous Fighting Com
pIetes Capture of Entire First Line
Defense of Teutons on Front of H.
600 Yards.
London, July 12.-The British often
sive in Picardy has captured the en-.
tire first system of German defenses
on front of eight miles. Five forti-
fed villages, many redoubts, an elab-
crate system of trenches to depth OF
from one to two miles, $500 prisoners
and invaluable booty has been taken
by the forces of Sir Douglas Haig
Contamination and Trones wood
have been stormed and recaptured in
the last tWenty-four hours.
Withdraw Austrians from Balkans.
Berne, Switzerland, July 12.-Near-
ly one hundred military trains, con-
veying some $4,000 troops, passed
through Temesvar, Hungary, in the
past few days transporting landsturm,
used in the occupation of Serbia and
Montenegro, to Pennsylvania to OPP
pose the Russian advance. 1t is re-
ported that German officers command
ing Bulgarian troops have been re-
called
Burn Cettinie.
Rome, July 1.-THE Idea Nazionale
states that the Austrians have burned
Cettinje, former capital of Montene-
gro. The royal palace was destroyed.
Germans Gain at Verdun.
Paris, July 12-While calm prevailed
on both sides of the Somme, accord
ing to the official communication is
sued by the French war Office, heavy
fighting occurred on the right bank
of the Mouse, in the Verdun sector.
German forces succeeded in gaining a
footing in the Damloup battery and in
some sections of the French line In
the Fumin wood
Say Russ Are Beaten Back.
Berlin, July 12.-Russian troops adj
vancing in the direction of Kovel
have been beaten back by the Ger
wicze, south of the. SarnyKovel rail
road. The Germans captured three
machine guns.
Attacks Fail Says Berlin.
Repeated attacks by the French and
British troops on the Somne front
have failed to win the German posi-
tons against which they were direct
ed. says the war office announcement. |
Repeated attempts by the enemy to
recapture Trones wood failed with |
heavy and sanguinary losses" says
the report "He also lost 100 pr1s-
OnerS."
271,62O Prisoners Taken.
Petrograd, July 12.-The approx
mate total of prisoners taken by the
Russians during General Brussiloffs |
operations to July 10 amounted to
$500 officers and 100000 men, the
war office announced. Guns to the
number of 312 and 866 machine guns
have been captured.
Steel Meets Iron.
Petrograd, July ia dispatch to
the Russky Slovo from southwestern
headquarters says:
"When news of the rolling up Of the
Austrian fourth army and the forcing
of the defenses of Lutsk was received
in Berlin the emperor ordered the i'm
mediate dispatch thither of the best
available forces of the strategical re-
serves in France. The first troops
sent to support the Austrians were the
Tenth Imperial Corps, including the
Twentieth Brunswick, the so-cah ed |
steel DIVISION concerning whose
prowess numerous legends have arts
en- in Germany.
"The corps reached Vladimir-Volyn-
ski and was hurled next day against
General Kaledine's army. The COLI
sion occurred at Kiselin, half way be-
tween Vladimir-Volynski and Lutsk.
The onslaught of the German steel di-
vision was met by a Russian division
which in the earlier stages of the war
won the name of the iron division.
Warn of Intention.
advancing to the attack, the Ger
mans fired tens of thousands of shells
in an uninterrupted cannonade Tor
four days and nights then charge fol-
lowed charge and one after another
broke. Russian iron was proof against
German steel.
During a short lull on the evening
of the second day the Germans dis
played signboards above their trench
es bearing the inscription: Your
Russian iron is no worse than the Ger
man steel, but all the same we shall
smash you
"The Russians retorted: Come on
and try
Russ Win Surprise Attack.
1.-THE Brunswicks resumed their
charges throughout the day and night,
but next morning the Russians sud
denly delivered a smashing counter
attack at an unexpected point and
overthrow two battalions, capturing a
number Of cannon and machine guns.