The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-07-14

600 Yards.
LONDON, ENG.-The British often
sive in Picardy has captured the en-
tire first system of German defenses
on a frcnt of eight miles. Five forti-
fed villages, many redoubts, an elab-
crate system OF trenches to depth of
from one to two miles, $500 prisoners
and invaluable booty has been taken
by the forces of Sir Douglas Haig.
ContaIma:son and Trones wood
have been storned and recaptured in
the last twenty-four hours.
Withdraw AUstrians from Balkans.
BERNIE, SWITZERLAND. = Near
veying some $4,000 troops, passed
through Temesvar, Hungary, in the
past few days transporting landsturm,
used in the occupation of Serbia and
Montenegro, to Pennsylvania to OPP
pose the Russian advance. 1t is re-
ported that German officers command
in" Bulgarian troops have been re-
called.
Burn cettinie.
ROME - The Idea Nazionale
states that the Austrians have burned
Cettinje, former capital of Montene-
gro. The royal palace was destroyed
Germans Gain at Verdun.
PARIS. = While calm prevailed
on both sides of the SOmme, accord
ing to the official communication is
sued by the French war office, heavy
fighting occurred on the right bank
of the Mouse, in the Verdun sector
German forces succeeded in gaining a
footing in the Damloup battery and in
some sections of the French line in
the Fumin wood.
Say Russ Are Beaten Back.
BERLIN. - The Russian troops adj
vancing in the direction OF Kovel
have been beaten back by the Ger
mans in a counter attack near Hulo-
wicze, south of the Sarny-Kovel rail-
road. The Germans captured three
machine guns.
Attacks Fail Says Berlin.
Repeated attacks by the French and
British troops on the Somne front
have failed to win the German posi-
tions against which they were direct.
ed. says the war office announcement.
Repeated attempts by the enemy TO
recapture Trones wood failed with
heavy and sanguinary losses" says
the report. "He also lost 100 prls-
oners."
271,620 Prisoners Taken.
PETROGRAD, RUS.-The approx
mate total of prisoners taken ny the
Russians during General Brussiloff's
operations to July 10 amounted TO
$500 officers and 100000 men. the
war office announced. Guns to the
number of 912 and S66 machine guns
have been captured
Steel Meets Iron.
PETROGRAD. = dispatch 70
the Russky Slovo from southwestern
headquarters says:
"When news of the rolling up OF :he
Austrian fourth army and the forcing
of the defenses of Lutsk was received
in Berlin the emperor ordered the I'M
mediate dispatch thither of the b. st
available forces of the strategical re-
serves in France. The first troops
sent to support the Austrians were the
Tenth Imperial Corps, including the
Twentieth Brunswick, the so-caA ed
steel division concerning whose
prowess numerous legends have arts
en- in Germany.
''The corps reached Vladimir-Volyn-
ski and was hurled next day agains'
General Kaledine's army. The COLI
sion occurred at Kiselin, half way be-
tween Vladimir-Vo lynski and Lutsk
The onslaught of the German steel di
vision was met by Russian division
which in the earlier stages of the war
won the name of the iron division.
Warn of Intention.
advancing to the attack, the Ger
mans fired tens of thousands of shells
in an uninterrupted cannonade tol
four days and nights; then charge fol
lowed charge and one after another
broke. Russian iron was proof against
German steel
During q short lull on the evening
of the second day the Germans dis
played signboards above their trench
es bearing the inscription: Your
Russian iron is no worse than the Ger
man steel, but all the same We shall
smash you
1.-THE Russians retorted: Come OIL
and try
Russ Win Surprise Attack.
"The Brunswicks resumed thei
charges throughout the day and night
but next morning the Russians sud
denly delivered smashing counte
attack at an unexpected point an
overthrow two battalions, capturing
number of cannon and machine guns
after the forty-second attack tn
remnants of the steel division wer
withdrawn, and are now at vladimir
Volynski, awaiting reorganization
Tho oorpc in four davS' f0htinc los