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ALLIES FEELING
OUT GERMANLIN
Activity in West Indicates that
Offensives There Will be
Resumed Soon.
NO HALT IN RUSSIAN ATTACKS
Fierce Battles Continue in Stokhod
Region and Along seretE and Dniee-
ter Rivers in Galicia.

London, Aug. 4.-The Allies appar-
emily are feeling out the German line
In the West in advance of another Of
fensive movement. Whether the new
stroke will fall in the Somme region
or in some other sector of the front
is not indicated. Heavy artillery
bombardments were in progress today
near Pozieres and Thiepval, in the
Somme region, in the Givenchy dis
trict and the Loos salient, further
north, while the French big guns
were active in the Champagne region
and around Verdun.
Heavy Counter Attacks.
The Germans launched heavy coun-
ter attacks in an effort to win back
De1vil1e Wood from the British. Gen
eraI Haig's report says they were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. A German
garrison was forced to flee from a
point of support near Pozieres by the
British artillery.
The German artillery was active
along the front from Mametz to Lon
gueval and in the vicinity of Arras
and Armentiers
Fierce battles are continuing in the
Stokhod region on the Eastern front
The Russian attacks against the Aus
tro-Germans defending Kovel are be-
ing kept up with great vigor. but Pc
trograd makes no claim of further
gains. Along the Sereth and Dnies-
ter rivers in Galicia there also is
much desperate fighting.
Capture Turkish Works.
In the Caucasus region the Rus
slams stormed a Turkish work near
Diarbekr, capturing three hundred
prisoners and some guns.
Further progress for the Italians is
recorded in the Travanenzes Valley.
At other parts Of the Austro-ItaIian
theater the Austrian artillery has
been engaged in a vigorous lombard
ment of the Italian positions.
Allied Attacks Halted.
London, Aug. 3.-The armies in the
three great centers of recent activity
the Somme region Of France, Rus
STA and Enthusiastically have let up
considerably in the violent fighting
In which they have been engaged and
are indulging in a breathing spell
preparatory to further attacks and
counter attacks. The official commu-
nications dealing with the operations
in these theaters today tell OF no
single important engagement or of
any notable changes in the positions
of the be1ligerents.
Attacking in echeIon on a Smile
line from the Mouse river to Fleury,
north of Verdun, the French have cap
tured several German trenches and
organized points of support. In the
engagement six hundred Germans
were made prisoners and ten machine
guns were captured.
On the Russian front, Petrograd re-
ports merely artillery duels and infan-
try attacks on the Stokhod and Turia
river fronts and of local Russian of
fensives on the Stripa river in Galicia,
all of which were repulsed.
Attacks by the Austrians against
the Italians at various points, includ.
ing Monte Cimone, Monte Seluggio
and Castellatto. have been repuIsed
with heavy casualties. according to
Rome.
The Russians are keeping up their
advance against the Turks in the
Caucasus region.
siavs Ten Miles From KoveI.
According to unofficial dispatches
from Petrograd, the Russian advance
against Kovel continues. General
Kaledines' troops, the dispatches say
have pushed forward ten miles since
they crossed the bend OF the Stokhod
river, which would place them only
ten miles from KoveI.
Interest is now conferred in the pre-
dicament Of General Won Bothmer's
army. These forces are threatened
On the north flank by the Russian
pressure between KoveI and Brody
and at the southern end OF the linz
by General Letchitzky's advance to
ward Stanislau and across the Della
tyn-Jablonitza railway. It thus ap
pears that unless General Won Both
mer acts promptly he is in danger O
development. In addition, should Gen
eral Kaledines succeed in getting tn,
KovelLemberg railway. direct com
munication between the Germans il
the north and the Austrians in tn,
south would be destroyed.
Heat Raised Paralysis Toll.
New York, Aug. 2.-All previous