New Britain herald., 1916-07-06
LILIES MAKE GAINS ON ALL FRONTS
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# Continued from First Page.) #ributed by German prisoners to the &clenCy of the French heavy artil- 8y P" 8 1t was impossible to keep Up tho #ht under such fire,'' said one or B officers taken prisoner yesterday. & We took counsel and the officers Hanimously decided to surrender to #old useless sacrifice of life. # What we have to do now,' the of- r Is quoted as adding, lis to savo II for the coming victorious war &lch Germany will wage four years #nce."
 8 New French Trenches. ne new French trenches at the #st advanced point are now in front MFeronne and the village of Mount # Quentin, situated on an elevation 8 feet from the point from which H 8l9. the Germans bombardcd Pe- Enc.
 wounded corporal gives evidence the remarkable immunity of some # the French troops from heavy Nses In describing the action of his #n npany, which went over three lines # Herman trenches without having q Mslc man wounded.
 M Tcntonic Lines Transferred M serI1n, July 6, via London, 4:45 M fn.-After repeated Russian at- #ks on positions held by troops of Mleral Count von Bothmer along one Nor of the front in Galicia had been #ulsed the Teutonic lines were par @iy transferred to a neighboring sec M the war office announced today 4etWeen the Ancre brook and the VT Somne and in the region south
 he river. says. today's German of
 statement, fighting continues. R or progress made by British troops Thtepval, it is added was Mtnced by counter attacks. Further M the south the British succeeded Bbtaining a firm footho1d in an ad- Mced salient
 Mhe headquarters staff announces M the small village of Hem, in the me valley, has been evacuated by I Germans.
 elloy-En- Santerre, southwest of
 ronne has been captured by the
 nch The fighting around Estrees,
  French Repulsed at DamIoup. M ttempts made by the French yes- IKE ay to advance in the wood south
 t or Fort Vaux in the Verdun sec & were repulsed, says the official @eInent issued today at the German
 y headquarters. Similar efforts M e by the French to recapture the
 aloup Hill battery, the statement
 s, were unsuccessful.
 Another Day of Gains.
 aris, July 6.-The Anglo-French Mnsive ip Picardy has had another M of substantial progress, outstand- M features being the resumption of M French advance north of the @ me and the capture of German Mnd positions there.
 omplete preparations had been M e quietly in this section virtually aaRa# ndered by the Germans while
 French forces south of the river Sed up level and got a thorough IKE on the Germans second positions. IKE was accomplished by the ejec- TIE of the Germans from the part of
 ees they still held and the cap-
 of their communications between HIM SSS anu belloy. The northern
 ps then emerged from their
 ches and dashed forward a good M Hem Finally Won.
 le Germans second positions had M so demolished by artillery that HE were unable to make a strong re- #nce except at the village of Hem,
 h had ben strongly fortified. Here M attacking troops met desperate M sition.
 ach house ruin was fiercely dis
 d, but by dint of hard f1ghting
 yillage was won, as we'll as Mona
 arm to the southwest.
 l French consider the capture of W as of considerable importance,
 commands the passage of the M to Feufllers, already in their
 Is. It possession thus assures a M between corps on either side of
 stream.
 Germans Rush Reserves.
 pe Germans are beginning to re-
 more vigorously as reserves ar W particularly south of the Somme M the French advance there is
 contested. French critics expect M the Germans will concentrate all M energies in defense of the will ## of Barleux and Vil1ers-Car- M el. The former bars the ravine W between the two plateaus which Nrate the French line from Peron & while the latter, village of five
 red inhabitants, stands on the
 1ernmost of the two pIateaus, hundred feet high, and rakes
 whole valley of the Somme as far @ eronne.
 I Quiet Night.