Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-11
HALF MILE GAINED
BY BRITISH FORCES
NORTH Of SOMME
Pounding of General Won
Bothmer'S Army in GaIiCia
Is Continued by Gar With
the Capture of 5000

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Undeterred
by rain and fog, the Franco-British Of
fensive continues fiercely north of the
Somme. The British in conjunction with
the French are reported to have adj
vanced a half mile on Saturday against
the Germans. General Haig's forces
also have made considerable progress at
Contamination. where their position now
is considered satisfactory"
The French in an attack on Harde-
court and Mamelon gained the desired
positions in a little more than half an
hour. The Germans counter attacked
twice against the Mamelcn positions.
but were repulsed. The French inflicted
heavy losses and took $50 prisoners.
Artillery bombardments continue
around Verdun.
A fierce preliminary bcmbardment by
the British was followed by an infan-
try attack, which gained them lodg-
ment in a strongly defended German
position known as the Bots de Troynes.
The Germans attempted a strong coun-
ter attack but according to the British
official statement, it broke DOWN.
In the east Russian 9-ms are again
in the ascendancy from the Pinsk
The Russian drive for Kovel is again
in fun swing along both sides OF the
railway from Sarny to this important
junction point in Volhynia. General
Kaledines reported further important
progress in this movement yesterday.
His lines now have been pushed for
ward along a front of more than thirty
miles in this sector until they extend
from Letchniovka and the north to Cru
Zlatyn on the south. the present front
lying approximately 35 miles from Ko-
vel
The Teutonic resistance, which a
week ago had not only stopped, but was
driving back the Russians along this
front, apparently has been notably
weakened. Berlin and Vienna have re-
ported an orderly retirement here, but
Petrograd claims the capture of more
than 2.OGO prisoners, with numerous
guns anc stores and mentions the saber-
ing of numbers of Austrians in a pur-
suit after a cavalry charge.
The pounding of General Won Both
mer's army in Galicia also is being con-
tinued by the Russians. who report the
capture of another village and of more
than 1000 additional prisoners.
h dispatch from the Austrian head
Quagters tonight admits that the Rus
SLAMS have driven the Austrians back
twelve miles. The statement says,
however, that the gain was accomplish
ed at a great sacrifice TO the Russians.
The admission is also made that the
Russians not only stopped General Won
Bothmer's advance, but caused him to
fall back.
The German official statement has lit
tie to say of the fighting in the Volhy-
nian and Galician fields of operation. 1t
reports. however, the repression of Rus
sian attacks on Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg's lines south of Dvinsk and
the moving down of masses of Russians
in their futile efforts to break through
the German lines north of Baranovichi
along the front from Zirin to below
Gorodische. The battle in this latter
sector is still in progress.
The British infantry after a fierce
bombardment, stormed line of trench
es and gained a footing in the Bots de
Trones, according to the British official
statement issued late tonight. The
British also made an appreciable ad-
vance in the neighborhood of Ovillers.
according to the statement.
A ReJter correspondent in the Brit
ish camp in France sends the report
that during Saturday, the British in
conjunction with the French gained a
Ealf mile against the Germans.
There seems little doubt that the
Germans have massed all their readily
available reserves against the British
I'm northern France and are making
General Haig's forces pay dearly for
whatever success they win.
Berlin does concede the gains claim
ed by the British in their efforts to re-
duce the German salient centering upon
and declares that enor-
nous numbers of British dead were
left on the ground before the German
positions IN this sector after the fire
from the Teutonic artillery and machine
guns had torn into the masses Of troops
to the attack.
Similar heavy losses were suffered by
the French in attacks along the Bia-
ches-Soye court front of their offensive
movement, according to the German
headquarters report
Heavy fighting continues north of
Verdun where the French are declared
by Berlin to have suffered heavily in
fruitless attempts to carry German po-
sitions on Froide Terre ridge.