Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-07
RUSSIAN ARMY BEGINS
ANOTHER BIG OFFENSIVE
Bombardment Of Artillery, Destroy
ing Teuton Trenches, Continues
for Twenty-Four Hours.
FIRING PRAISED BY ENEMY
hungarian Correspondent Says It
Was Absolutely Perfect and No
Troops Could Dream of Stand
ing Up to It.

Troops COulQ DT6dm OF SCdnU-
ing Up to It
BERLIN, July 7, via Lon
don, $40 p.m.-A salient of
the German line in Volhynia
projecting toward Czartorysk,
has been abandoned under su-
perior pressure by the Russians
and a new line of defense Sc
lected, it was announced today
by the war Office.
LONDON, July 7, 3 p.m-A
wireless dispatch from Rome says
word has been received there
from Petrograd that in conse-
quence of their triple defeat in
the sectors of Riga, Ko1ki and
Baranovichi, the Germans have
begun to move their whole front
toward the west
Petrograd has recently an
nounced successes in regions
mentioned in the Rome advices.
The last report from the vicinity
OF Kolki, in the crucial Volhynia
sector, recorded the capture by
the Russians of more than $500
prisoners, half a dozen cannon
and twenty-three machine guns.
Another Offensive Begun.
The Russians have begun a tremen-
dous offensive on the Riga front, where
their artillery is destroying the Ger
man trenches. says dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Vienna. via Copenhagen
The bombardment, the dispatch adds,
lasted twenty-four hours and the Ger
mans were helpless before the Russian
artillery. which can now fire fifty shells
as against one in 1914.
Artillery Fire Perfect.
A dispatch to the Morning Post from
Budapest quoted a Hungarian corre-
spondent at the eastern front as say
ing:
The Russian strength exceeds any
thing seen in this war heretofore. In
some cases they stormed our positions
In rows seventeen lines deep and their
artillery was SO absolutely perfect that
no troops could dream of standing up
to ii.
Much of their artillery consists of
Japanese guns manned by Japanese and
French officers They often employ the
so-calied pouring fire. using ammuni-
ton Of japanese and American origin.
TN some places the Russian barrage
IRE continued even after their infantry
reached our trenches and in at least one
spot both defenders and attackers were
totally annihilated. The Russians were
buried under the earthworks wrecked by
their own artillery.
Supplied With Ammunition.
The Russians, who now apparently have
even a better supply of guns and am
munition than their adversaries, seem to
pass from one phase to the next without
tntermission. Gen. Letchitzky's army,
which conquered Bukowina and cut the
o,
is advancing in an effort completely to
overcome the Austrian forces on that
front Gen. Kaledines is continuing to
deliver heavy strokes against the Aus
TRANS and Germans who are endeavoring
to keep him from KoveL With these
operations in full swing the Russians to
the north have inaugurated an offensive
from Riga to Garanovichi.
Along the northern end of the line
from Riga TO Dvinsk a great lombard
Tnent has begun, while from a point
preparation was followed by infantry
attacks. in which the Russians report
they made many prisoners repulsing
German counter attacks. Near Smor-
gon the Russians and Germans also are
engaged in severe struggle.
Russians Fall Back 80 Miles.
Rumania, IL is said here. is awaiting
some move by the entente forces al
SaIonikL The near east is interested
in the battles throughout the Caucasus
and Mesopotamia. The Russian army
which was advancing toward Bagdad
has fallen back some eighty miles un.
der pressure from great Turkish force.
which were brought against IL, but
elsewhere from the Black sea to the
Persian frontier the Russians, accord
ing to their own statements. are more
than holding their own. No news ha,
been received recently from the British
army in Mesopotamia, but it is believed
that inactivity was forced by the grea
heat