The Elbert County tribune., 1916-07-21
100000 ALLIES
. ON BALKAN FRONT
BRITISH ADVANCE ON 1,ooo-YARD
FRONT NORTH OF soMME
RIVER.
RUSS DISL0DCE TURKS
BERLIN REPORTS THAT TEU.
TONS DRIVE BACK ENEMIES
IN TWO BATTLE ZONES.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, July 19.-Official advices
received from Saloniki under date OF
Monday say that cannonading is in
progress along the entire Salonik
front. Allies aeroplanes burned part
of the Bulgarian crops in the region
of Monastir," the dispatches say
There is cannonading along the
whole 'front.'
The information given out in regard
to the situation at Saloniki is not suf-
ficiently explicit to indicate whether
the entente allies are preparing an Of
fensive movement A drive from the
Saloniki front had been predicted for
some time. 1t is generally under
stood the allies have 100000 or more
men available on this front for
campaign.
Substantial progress by the British
on front of 1000 yards north OF
Ovillers was announced by the war
office.
Vienna.-Austrian advanced posts
in the region of Zabie and Tatarow,
south of Kolomea in the Carpathian
region. have been pressed back by
Russian attack, says the war office
statement. The main Austrian posi-
tions, however, have been firmly held.
In Volhynia, in the region southwest
of Lutsk, Russian attacks failed
Petrograd.-A Russinn victory over
rEntt in Uplt, xrni
has resulted in their being driven
across the river Lipa and beyond that
stream, says a Russian war office
statement Indications are, the state
ment adds, that the retreat was ef-
fected in the greatest disorder.
Berlin.-Heavy attacks by the Brit
ish against Pozieres on the Somme
front and positions to the east, were
repulsed. as we're attacks by the
French at Bilaches, La Maisonette,
Barleux and Sovecourt, according to
the official headquarters statement.
Copenhagen. - 1t was announced
that two more neutral vessels had
been torpedoed. The Ritzau news
agency says they were the Dutch iron
ship Denula and the Swedish schoon-
er Bertha, and that their crews were
landed at Nyberg.
London-The successes of the en-
tente allies are following each other
with great rapidity. Monday brought
news of further important gains for
them on both the western and east
ern fronts, arousing enthusiasm
among the British public hardly less
than that caused by the reception of
the first news of the allied offensive.
The dispatch of Gen. Sir Douglas
Haig shows that the steady pressure
of the British arms is forcing an ever
deepening salient into the German
lines, and the commander-in-chief for
the first time produces evidence in
the shape of documents captured
from the Germans giving testimony
as to the high price the Germans are
paying in casualties.
The British have improved their po-
sition along almost the Whole of their
line of the battle front, capturing by
assault 1,500 yards of German second
line positions north of the Bazentin-
Le-Petit wood, strong German posi-
ton at the Waterloo farm between
Longueyale and Guillemont.
They also have completed the cap
ture of the whole of the village of
-La-Boiselles. These gains
bring the British almost to the crest
of the Albert plateau, where stretches
the German third line.
News from the eastern front was
equally important The Russian COM
mander, Gen. Kuropatkin, has
launched an offensive against Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg on the
Dvino river, and Gen. Won Linsingen' 8
troops southwest of Lutsk have been
compelled to retire behind the Lipa
river, while in the course of Sun
days fighting in Volhynia the Rus
slams captured an additional $4,000
prisoners and thirty guns.
Lloyds reports the British steamer
Euphorbia. the Italian steamer Sirra,
and the steamer Virginia (probably
British) sunk.