, 1916-08-02

With the exception of certain regions OF the
Stobychwa front on the river Stokhod north
east of Kovel they have been extended SO far
as to the west of Berestechk where they broke
down with tremendous losses mostly under
our curtain of fire. Only at certain points
of the entire front did it come to hand to
hand fighting. Wherever the enemy had
penetrated be was again elected by our
counter-attack or his advance was restrict
ed. In the course of the night the with
drawal which had been planned for a long
time from the Stokhod curve which projects
towards the east and north of the Kovel-
Rovno railway was carried through without
interference from the enemy. Army group
of Count Won Bothmer: Again yesterday
Russian local attacks northwest and west of
Buczacz met with no success. Balkan Thea
ire: There is nothing to report.
London, July 31st.-The second raid with
in a week of the east coast of Eng
land by a Zeppelin airship was made
this morning. An official statement, an
nouncing the raid, says that the air.
ship was engaged by a British aeroplane.
The official statement is as follows: At SIS
o'clock this morning one of our aeroplaues
pursued and attacked a Zeppelin SO miles off
the coast. The pilot had fred more than
two trays of ammunition into the Zeppelin
when he was temporarily incapacitated by q
portion of his machine-gun flying of and
striking him. The Zeppelin was nowhere
to be seen when the pilot regained consci.
business, he was therefore forced to return to
his station.
London, July 31st.-special dispatches
from Salonica say that Ser bian successes
on the Cheek frontier continue and that
the Serbiaps are entrenching on O line only
800 yards from the frontier. Thursday a
large force of Bulgarians attacked the Ser
bian positions north of Stupinow but a
powerful counter-attack routed them and
the Bulgarians fed in disorder, leaving
many dead together with considerable
quantities of material. One correspondent
says all the Bulgarians who had come down
into the plain from the mountains, along
which the frontier lies, have been driven
up into the hills again and most OF the
ridges are now occupied by Serbians. It
is expected that the Serbians in a few days
will be in possession Of all the positions
they need along the whole line. Moreover,
they have gained what they sought at NAL
cost.
Washington, July 31st-Great Britain is
warned in the American Note of protest,
against the Black list made public last night
by the State Department, of The many seri-
Gus consequences to neutral rights and neu-
trail relations which such an act must neces-
sarily involve. The Note declares in the
gravest terms "that it is manifestly out of
The question that the Government of the
United States should acquiesce in such me-
thods, and that the United States regards
the Black list as inevitably and essentially
inconsequent with the rights of all citizens
of all the nations not involved in the wa'.
It reminds tn British Government that
"citizens of the United States are entirely
within their rights in attempting to trade
with the people or the Governments or any
of the citizens now at war, subject only'to
well-defned international practices and I'M
derstandings which the Government OF the
United States deems the Government of
Great Britain to have too lightly and fire.
quently disregardad.
Montreal, July 31st.-A @ r Telegraph
company s despatch from North Bay, Oni, says
three more bodies have been recovered at
Nushka and six at Cochraue, making 184
bodies accounted for up to 9 am. The rail
way experts expect to get bridges repaired
and trains through about noon to-day.
Relief work is reported to be we'll in hand.
The burned area covers a wide extent on the
national trans-continenta railway, and the
T and MS railway, it being 115 miles from
Fnolabarf to C0chranA and 135 miles from