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for the offensive 81 German captive balloons
were burned.
Censored at Jamaica.

Vienna, July 1st.-A War Office statement
issued to-day reported progress for the Aus
tro- Germans IN the Volhynia with the driv-
ing back of the Russians south Of UgIinow
west Of Torchyn and near Sokul Rus
sian cavalry that attacked troops of Gene
rel Count Won Bothmer near Thumacz was
dispersed. On the Italian front, says the
statement, the fighting activity in the north
ern sector of the Doberdo plateau has de-
creased. Artillery fire continues in the south
ern sector of the Carnia front. Between the
Brenta and Etzsch Italian attacks failed.
London, July 2nd-The first batch of
wounded from the British front in France
arrived at Charing Cross station this evening.
An enormous crowd assembled at the station
and the police had considerable difficulty in
securing passage for the Red Cross vehicles
through the cheering flag -waving people.
London, July 2nd-A statement issued by
the Official Press Bureau says Five thou
saEd five hundred engineers and Allied
workers at Vickers in B%arrow-in- Furness
struck over the dilutiou of labour last Mon
day. The strikers, repudiated by their res
ponsible leaders, were threatened under the
Defence Of the Realm Act and the War
Munitions Act. Picketing was prevented and
the public houses were closed. A general
resumption of work with the dllution Of
labOur began last night.
Rome, July 1st--(Delayed in transmission)
After a tempestuous sitting this evening, the
Itnlian Chamber of Deputies passed q vote
of confidence in the new Cabinet Of Premier
Boselli. The vote stood $40 against "A. The
Members opposing the resolution of conf
dence were Acknowledgement Socialists.
Paris, July 3rd-The French offensive
south of the Somme in conjunction, with the
British drive, continued last night with
complete success, the War Office announced
to-day. The French have occupied two
lines of t,enches of the second German
positions on q front of five kilometres
g miles). The French have captured the
village of Herbecourt. On the Verdun front
the Germans captured Damloup redoubt,
but the French soon after regained posses
sion of it. The fortress of Thiaumont was
retaken by the French yesterday after chang
ing hands five times. The trenches of the
second German position captured by the
French extend from Maricourt wood, which is
in possession of the French as far as the edge
of Assevillers. The village of Herbecourt, TAX
Ell by the French, lies between these two
points Further south the French made pro-
gress towards Assevillers and Estrees. North
of the Somme, the Germans made no attack
on the positions previously taken by the
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ery and took more prisoners. The statement
says 80 German battalions participated in the
fighting and that 81 of these battalions
sustained important losses. During the artil-
lery preparation preceding the Inauguration
of the offensive, 81 German captive balloons
were burned.
London, July 2nd.-The italian sailing
vessel"Carlo Alberto" aud the British steamer
"Windermere" of 1922 tons gross, have been
sunk, according to reports to Lioyds, The
"Windermere'' was unarmed.
Petroprad. July 3rd.-A Russian torpedo
boat destroyed 81 enemy sailing vessels
in the Black Sea near the Anatolian coast,
on June the 29th. says the statement.
London, July 2ni.-A Danish steamer,
according to the "Politiken", has rescuedthe
crew consisting OF two officers of a German
seapIane which was wrecked in the Bnitic.
The rescued men were transferred to a Ger
man warship. Inc seaplane was TAKEN 10 a
Danish port.
Paris, July 3rd-The reserves which the
Germans rushed up to the Somme region
to check the Franco-British offensive began
to make themselves felt yesterday after
noon and last night, according to the tele-
grams received here. The fighting reached
a pitch of exceptional desperation. but never
theless the German efforts to check the
Allied advance failed. The Franco British
Allies, these reports cay, retain the initiative
unimpaired, and as the result of the days
fighting have materially advanced their
line and strengthened their hold on what
they had previously Won. The capture of
Curlu represents a great step forward for
the village bars the road leading to the
only points where the somme can be passed.
The French troops have now before them
on their road to Peronne, their goal, a series
of hummocks each of which is crowned by
a village ending in a narrow plateau. The
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