Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-01
FRENCH Win BACK
TH|AUMONT WORK
Recapture Field Fortress
That Marked Teuton
Hightide
DRIVE GAINS FORCE
DRIVE GAINS FORCE
British Keep Up Assaults and Heavy
Guns Hammer Furiously Away on
Belgian Line of Battle.

London, July British troops
have captured Serre and Moasaupah'
it was semi-officially announced TINS
! afternoon.
The Anglo-Frcnch troops are hght-
inc at Mametz and Contal Maison
part of which the French hold
French troops have captured Carlu
and the Savier wood and have advanc-
cd two kilometers (about and one
fifth miles).
London, July British troops nave
broken the German forward defense
an q sixteen mile front, the war Oh
fee announced today in the hrst
hrief statement on the beginning OF
the great oensive. French troops, at
tackine at the same time penetrated
deep into German trenches.
:'North of the Somme, in an at
tack in conjunction with the French
forces, the British have broken the
German forward defenses on SIN
teen-mile 'front.'" said the oiilclai
statement. "The French attack on
the immediate right was equally
satisfactory.
London, July 1.-The long-eXpecte"
British offensive began at 7:30 O'CLOCK
this morning with . tremendous
smash against the German lines on a
twenty nile front norta Of tho Snr'-
me. This information was contained
in brief special bulletins from army
headquarters today.
The British swept forward with a
rush, capturing some enemy front
line trenches. Many German prison.
ers were taken. The British attacks
were continuing with greatest vio-
lence at the hour when the dispatch
es were filed.
The first reports were flashed to
London shortly before noon, News
paper extras were grabbed eagerly
in the clubs, hotels, on the streets,
everywhere. Within a few minutes
the word spread through Lon
don:
"The big push has begun
London. July Fierce fighting on
both east and west fronts, with the
capture by the Russians of kalomea
an important railroad centre in East
Galicia. and of the town of Obertlne
south of the Dniester river, and viii
|Iapes south and north of that point
is reported. Vienna admits the loss
of Kalomea, saying the city was
evacuated after most determined
resistance under pressure Of superior
forces.
The Allies are also launching at
tacks along the entire western 'front.'
/, the, desperate character of which; is
indicated by the recapture of forti-
, fed works in the first line of the
French trenches east of Hill 3O4
which the Germans had taken short
time before. Paris also reports that
the Thiaumont works, northeast OF
Verdun, which the Germans had hello
for some time, is again in French
hands.
From Rome comes official informa,
; lion of the Italian offensive on the
Trentino front continuing unchecked
all of which suggests that the Ions
expected concerted drive by the Allies
is in full swing.
The campaign on the southwestern
front, according to Petrograd, con
tinucs to hinge on the operations or
the Stokhod line. where the Grman:
have concentrated against the righ
. wing of General Brusiloff's arm!
and are stubbornly defending KoVe
: against a Russian advance. 1t re
mains to be seen whether a success
: full German resistance at this poin
t will check further progress by tn
s southern part of General Brusiloff'
j forces, which, having widened til
: breach made at Czernowitz, move
v steadily on Kolomea.
i The occupation of this city wit
e its five railways and six high road
e threatens the rear of the Austria
army and constitutes growing men