Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-27
PozicreS on West Front and
Erzingan in Armenia
Are Captured.
SLAVS TAKE 1000 ON
SLONEVKA RIVER
Sakharoff's Recent Vic
tories Bring Him Within
II Miles of Brody.
r ONDoN, July 26.-Uo:4O p.m)

7 ONDON, July 26.-Up:iO p. m)
~ The allies are aDia to congratu-
late themselves on another good days
record with the capture OF inpoi tant
positions of Pozieres, on the western
front, and E,rzingan in Armenia, while
the Russian general Sakharpif in the
ngh-inr on the Sion ,vkI river cap
ture- . .other foui thousand p. is,n
e"s 3,rG five guns.
The British secretary ror war, Da-
vid Lloyd George, in published
statement tonight, shows the import
ance the Germans attached to the
retention of Pozieres by quoting from
German divisional order issued in
Contamaison on July IL, as follows:
Furthermore, the conversion of
villages into strong points is of the
greatest importance. Such villages
are Pozieres, Contalmaison and the
two Bezantine and Longueval"
Secretary Lloyd George points out
that with the capture of PoZieres, the
last of these villages has fallen INTO
the allies hands. He further points
out that today's German claim of the
repulse of an attack on Trones wood
must be a clerical error, as Trones
wood has been in British possession
since July IA.
Strongest Have Fallen.
The opinion of the military critics
in London is that no position so strong
as the British are now successfully
attacking will be found between Po-
zieres and Bapaume; otherwise, they
argue, the Germans would not have
risked bringing troops and guns from
the Ncrdun sector to defend Pozieres,
and it is inferred from indications in
-. t..lxg hat ha
lsh are already beginning to establish
themselves on both sides of the road
from Pozieres to Bapaume.
AS on the western front the Ger
mans and the Austrians failed to
make a successful stand anywhere
against the victorious Russian forces.
General SakharofCs recent success
has brought him within about IL
miles of Brody, which guards the ap-
proaches to Lemberg and places Won
Bothmcrs army in danger.
The Unexpectedly swift fall of En-
zngan leads to the suppostion mere
that the Turks must have removed the
guns from the defenseS of this town
to assist the armies in the field, not
anticipating such rapid Russian au-
vance in such a difficult country.
The Italian front attracts little
public interest. but the Italians have
recently been making good progress
in the polomites region.
with the village of Pozieres COM
pletely and apparently securely in
their hands and having strengthened
their position by the capture or Two
strong trenches west of the village,
the British troops seemingly are rest
ing before attempting again TO throw
their forces against the Germans VINO
arc blocking their advance toward
Bapaume Wednesday saw only iso-
lated artillery duels and here and
there sharp local infantry attacks
along the entire British front in
France where for several weeks san
culinary encoL nters had been engaged
in almost continuously.
New French Success.
South of the Somme the French
have recorded another success in the
taking of a fortified house with some
prisoners southeast of the village of
Estrees Except in the Champagnes,
where the artillery Of both sides was
engaged in somewhat violent actions,
little fighting took place on the re-
mainder of the French front
In the Volhynia sector the Russians
are keeping up energetically then
pressure on the Teutons in the
SloneVka river region and also are
attacking the Teutons in north
Galicia near Brady. In the Slenevka
district Petrograd says the Teutons
are suffering heavy casualties and
that more than forty thousand men,
five guns, six machine guns and
quantities of munitions have beei,
captured by the Russians.
The Petrograd and Berlin cont
munications are at variance concern
ing the results of fighting that has
taken place near Riga and in the
vicinity of Baranovichi. Petrograd
claims the repulse of an offensive by
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's men
near Riga, while Berlin asserts that
the Germans penetrated Russian al
vanced positions there and destroyed
them. Likewise Petrograd claims
slight gain for the Russians near
BaranoVichl, while Berlin declarea.
strong Russian attacks in this Ticinity
were put down with heavy casualties
BY the Germans
The Turks have evacuated ERIN
gan. in Turkish Armenia, and the
Russians are in possession of this i'm
portant strategic point The reports
of the evacuation have not mentioned
whether the Turks in their retreat
were able to take away in the face of
the rapid Russian advance the guns
and stores in Erzingan.