The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-07-14
FRENCH SWEEP
REACHES S0MME
British Make Gains at 0villers
and Also at Hardecourt
RUSSIANS SILL DRIVE AHEAD

London.-The French have return
ed to the offensive south OF the Somm'
and have captured German trenche
over a distance OF about two and one
half miles east OF Falucourt ana 10
depth ranging from about two-tnlru'
of a mile TO a mile and third. Inc.
also captured by storm the village o
! Baches.
The French have thus resumed
! their co-operation with the Britlsh
who have been engaged In herce nght
ing i'm the neighborhood OF Ovillers
where, the statement from the Brltlsf
War Office says, they have agaif
made STEADY progress in the race o.
stubborn opposition"
The German heavy guns have peer
bombarding all along the British fron'
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 near the Trones wood. Both
attacks came under a severe and ell
fective fire from the British guns
and, the British assert, completely
broke down.
Regarding these operations, Ger
man Headquarters, while admitting
the loss of ground in the Hadecourt
village, declares that both British and
French attacks were repelled with
very heavy losses at other points.
The losses on all sides are doubt
less heavy, and that the British are
paving the price Of their forward
movement Is indicated by the casual
ty lists Of the last four days, which
report 628 British officers killed
wounded, or missing.
The Russian forces in their attacks
on the Teutonic line are going from
success to success. Not only Cen
eral Letchitzky, in the south, where
his army has now occupied the rail-
road junction at Delatyn, west OF Kolo-
mea. thus cutting off General Won
Bothmer from his supply base, but
General Brusiloff, in the north, is
making advances on both sides of the
Kovel Railway toward the Stokhod
River.
1t is reported from Rome that at a
recent council of German and Austrian
Marshals, Won Hindenburg asserted
that it would be impossible to attempt
a new offensive on a large scale with
out reinforcements of at least a quar-
ter OF a million men,
RUSSIANS TAKE MANY TEUTONS.
Petrograd. hal a million
Austrians and Germans have been put
out of commission since General Brus-
siloff began his great advance a month
ago The grand total of prisoners TO
date Is in round numbers $4,000, of
which $500 are officers. OF these pris-
oners upward of 10000 were taken
recently.
Without the actual figures regard
ing the dead and wounded careful
estimates by military experts, based
on the best information, places the lat
ter at 100000 to 100000. The Austri-
ans predominant overwhelmingly
among the prisoners, but among the
dead and wounded 1t is said that a
fairly large percentage are Germans.
The German losses in stopping the
Russian advance on Kovel and in
counterattacks made in solid ranks
were enormous.
The booty captured reaches an in
calculable total 1t is figured that
$50 guns of various sizes and upward
OF 700 machine guns is a conservative
estimate.
The success OF General Letchitzky's
advance west Of Kolomea, where he
has cut the railroad into Hungary at
Mikuliczyn, is emphasized as a new
body blow to the Austrian defense of
East Galicia. Northwest of Kolomea
his troops are within ten miles of Mad
worna, well to the rear of the Austrian
right flank, facing Tarnopol. between
the Stripa and Zlota Lipa Rivers.
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