The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-20
RUSSIAN LOSSES $4,000
IN KILLED he To nm " 4

Berlin July 70. (wireless to Sayviue).
70 official reports from Pc
trograd," says the Ovearseas News
ginning Of tie Russian olssns.v We and md
July 1, the number OF killed reacted
$4,000 officers and 2l8,eee men. In
cluded among the officers were IL gem
erals and 20 regimental commanders.
=, AdVices from Stockhsln say that
the Russian finance minister, having
failed to obtain a loan from Engisnd
and Francs. undertook negotiations
with bankers In the United States.
which also failed. England declared
that the cost Of the war to herself hid
reached such point that Il had be-
come impossible to assist her allies. The
Russian newspaper Rech, commenting
on this situation, most violently Insults
Americans for their 'egotism,' saying
that at last the mask Of sympathy for
the allies has been torn from their
faces"
London, July Herman line Sec
ond positions west of BazeAtin Le-Pe-
TIT wood have been captured by the
British in stormy attack the war Of
flee announced today. The positions
captured, in what the statement char
acterized as "a further important sue
cess" extended over a front of 1900
yards.
A strongly held position at Waterloo
farm, east of Longueval, also was cap
tured by the British, while the remain
ing strongholds of the Germans in
Ovillers and La Boisselle also were
taken
The British today captured a Ger
man trench in the neighborhood of Po-
zieres.
The capture of the trench strength
ems the new British line in this vicinity.
The British also cleared out nests of
German machine gun operators who
had been holding out in cellars and
behind barricades in the ruins Of OWL
lers and La Boisselle.
Save Wounded Under Fire,
A total of about 100 officers and men
surrendered to the British, who had
steadily closed in upon them, using
bombs and trench mortars, the Ger
mans being short Of food.
In an enormous cellar at BaZentin-
Le-Petit, the British found several hun
dred wounded Germans who had taken
refuge. 1t was tragic business for the
British litter bearers bringing them
back through the German shell fire,
which was meant for the British re-
serves and gun positions. There were
cases where litter bearer was wound
ed and put on Stretcher, emptied
when wounded German on it had
been killed by the same shell. The
British persisted until all who had not
received final wound in transit We're
safe in the rear.
A captured record Of German bat
talon shows that 600 of its members
were killed or wounded by the British
shell fire in the bombardment before
the attack began.
Through a sultry Sunday, the British,
after withdrawing from High wood,
continued TO consolidate their new po-
sitions while the Germans were equal
ly busy in digging in opposite them
n n u,.tt1 How,
tive. rt
Water, food and ammunition must be
carried forward over the shell pitted
area of the ground recently gained.
Soldiers who have this task in hand ard
seen in the rear with the supplies and
then, by some magic, disappear into
the earth or under cover and reappear
where machine gun rattles against ma
chine gun, and perspiring soldiers their
mouths parched with dust, are digging
and fighting.
The Anglo French advance has
brought the allied troops where they
make junction to point about mile
in front of Combles, which, prior to
July 1, when the offensive began, was
the German headquarters on this sec
tor.
Watch French Move.
The British are keenly watching for
the next move on the French front,
where comparative quiet still prevails.
me Germans are strongly placed on
the Somme above Peronne under the
protection Of the river and it's marshy
banks.
The crossing Of the river by the
French will involve serious fighting.
with. probably heavy losses.
Possession of stretches of woodland
becomes as important in the fighting
in Picardy as that OF villages The
,Genmanici defenders Of Trones wood
had orders to stand Ito the last man.
and the@orders were Virtually obeyed.
Cases have. been numerous in the
woods fighting where Rritons and Ger
mans have been pierced by each OF hers