The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
RUSSIANS DRIVE
BACK AUSTR|ANS
L e M 3 URG DEFENSE is CON-
TRACING AS sLAVS PUSH
WEST.
SINK BRITISH WARSHIP
ITALIANS GAIN AT CARSO PLA.
TEAU, AND TURKS WIN IN
PERSIAN BATTLE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Petrograd, Aug. 16.-The Russians
have captured Jablonitza, one of the
most important gateways through the
Carpathians TO the Hungarian plains
and have taken nearly 1900 additional
prisoners, according to an official
statement issued by the war office.
Paris.-Italian troops have entered
the suburbs of Tolmino, which is un-
der continuous shell fire. according
to a dispatch to La Liberte from Tu
rim. The Austrians. says the dispatch,
are evacuating the city.
Berlin-After attacks of the great
est violence on the Somme front. the
British obtained a footing in first line
German trenches on the Thiepval-Po-
zieres front, the war office announced.
"The Emperor has again left for
the eastern front" says an official
statement issued at Berlin, after hav-
ing visited, toward the end of his stay
of several days on the western front,
the army of the crown prince and, ac-
companied by the COMMUNICATIVE chief,
various units behind the battle front"
London-The Austrians and Ger
mans in Galicia are still falling back
before the advance of the Russians
who, according to Petrograd, have
made additional gains along the Ser
eth and Zlota-Lipa rivers and have
captured the strongly-fortified town of
Tustobaby, northwest of the Dniester.
On the upper Sereth, however, the
Teutonic allies at some points on
their newly-chosen line are holding
back the Russians with vigorous ar
tillery fire. Berlin says that south of
Brody. on the Lub and Graberka
sector, Russian attacks were put
down with heavy losses.
Other reports Monday state that the
Italians advanced materially in the
Osonzo front; that the Turks re-
pulsed Slav troops in Persia but in
Turkish Armenia the Russians forced
back the ottoman troops near Lake
Van, and that the British torpedo
boat destroyer Lassoo was sunk by
German submarine.
London. - Hard fighting In the
Somme region of France, in Galicia
and in the Italian theater, With fur
ther gains for the entente allies in
all three regions, marked the opera
tions of Saturday night and Sunday.
Northwest of Pozieres. north of the
Somme, the British made an advance
of from 800 to 400 yards over a front
of nearly mile against the Germans.
and also captured trenches on the
plateau northwest of Bazentin-Le-
Petit, while the French southeast of
Maurepas gained a further foothold
on the slopes of Hill 109.
Between Thiepval and the Somme
on Saturday night, according to Ber-
lin, assaults by the entente allies
broke down, with heavy casualties to
the attackers. The fighting near Hem
and Maurepas continued throughout
the night and into Sunday, the men
repeatedly coming to grips in hand-to-
hand encounters
Mariampol. in Galicia, seven miles
southeast of Halicz, the town of Pod
giacy and several villages along the
upper Sereth river have fallen into
the hands of the Russians.
On the Bystritza sector and near
Monasterzyska, however, Berlin says
the Russians have been thrown back
at several places by the counter at
tacks of the Teutonic allies.