Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
GAINS MADE IN THE soMME, GA.
LlCIA AND THE ITALIAN
WAR THEATERS.
SOME FIGHT HAND TO HAND
Foes Grapple In Personal Encounters
on Western French Front-Aus-
trians Forced Back by Ital-
ians-British Active.

the Somme region of France, in Ga
licia and in the Italian theater, with
further gains for the entente allies
in all three regions, marked the op-
erations of Saturday night and Sun
day.
Northwest of Pozieres, north of the
Somme, the British made an advance
of from 300 to 400 yards over a front
of nearly a mile against the Ger
mans and also captured trenches on
the plateau northwest of Bazentin
LIE Petit, while the French, south
west of Maurepas, gained further
foothold on the slopes of hill 1O9.
Between Thiepval and the Somme
Saturday night, according to Berlin,
assaults by the entente allies broke
down with heavy casualties to the
attackers.
Hand to Hand Grips.
The fighting near Hem and Maure-
pas continued throughout the entire
night and into Sunday, the men re-
peatedly coming to grips in hand to
hand encounters.
Mariampol, in Galicia, seven miles
southeast of Halicz, the town of
Podgiacy and several villages along
the upper Sereth river have fallen in
to the hands of the Russians.
On the Bystritza sector and near
Monasterzyska, however, Berlin says
the Russians have been thrown back
at several places by the counter at
tacks of the Teutonic allies.
Italians Continue Offensive.
The duke of Aosta is keeping up
his strong offensive against the
Austrians in the Isonzo region, hav-
ing driven them from fortified po-
sitions in the Monfalcone and Gori-
zia sectors and taken prisoner more
than 1000 additional men.
Constantinople reports that the
Turks east Of the Suez canal have
turned against the British and COM
PEELED them to retreat with heavy
losses. The London war office, how
ever, disputes this statement, assert
ing that the British cavalry still is
in pursuit of the Turkish rear guard,
which Saturday evening had been
driven back to a position east Of
Birs-el-Manca.
Fight in Mesopotamia.
After a long period Of inactivity,
the British along the Euphrates in
Mesopotamia attempted an advance
against the Turks, but retreated after
two hours fighting. Further ad-
vances for the Turks against the
Russians on the Persian front and in
Turkish Armenia also are claimed
by Constantinople.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
London, Aug. 15.-The Austrians
and Germans in Galicia are still fall
ing back before the advance of the
Russians, who, according to Petro-
grad, have made additional gains
along the Sereth and Zlota Lipa riv-
ers and have captured the strongly
fortified town Of Tustobaby, north
west of the Dniester.
Berlin Says Attacks Repulsed.
Berlin says that south of Brody on
the Lub and Graberka sector, Russian
attacks were put down with heavy
losses, and that Russians who had
penetrated the Teutonic positions on
the Zboroff-Konjucay line, northeast
of Tarnopol, were driven off and 300
of them taken prisoners. According
to Vienna Russian attack southwest
of Podgamien, near Brody, ended with
the field before the Austro-Germans'
positions covered with Russian dead.
According to Berlin the British
have been expelled from trenches
over a front of 700 yards southwest
of the Thiepval-P Pozieres sector which
they occupied Sunday