Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-07-22
British Forces are Now Holding
Eight Miles of First Line
German Trenches.
GERMANS ADMIT A SETBACK
Berlin Official Communication Says
Russians are Drawing Close to
KoveI on Stokhod Line.

another good day for the Entente
Allies, who are making a steady ad-
vance on all fronts. A striking illus
tration of the difference in the rela-
tive positions of the allied and Teu-
tonic forces and of the remarkable
change from the monotonouS defen-
isfve warfare which characterized the
Allies methods for so many weary
months, until the present summer, is
found in the number of prisoners and
guns taken. Those for the battle of
the Somme amount to $4,000 prison
ers and 104 guns captured from the
Germans, while the official figures for
the Russian General Brussiloff's drive
to July 10 are 271, $50 prisoners, 312
guns and $50 machine guns taken.
British Gain Substantial.
Today's news is of substantial and
heavy fighting on almost all the fronts,
the Allies making consistent prog
ress, with only occasional setbacks.
The British have finally captured the
fiercely contested town of Contalmai-
son after desperate day and night
lighting, and now are holding the
town against all the German counter
attacks.
The importance the Germans at
tached to this position may be meas
ured by the fact that they recently
threw the Prussian Guards into the
fighting at this point.
The British also are in possession
of the greater part of Mametz Wood
and have recaptured nearly the whole
of Trones Wood. The British COM
mander-in-chief, Gen. Sir Douglas
Haig, thus summarizes the results of
the ten days operations:
Our troops have completed the
methodical capture of the whole enc
my's first system of defense on
front of fourteen thousand yards
(nearly eight miles).''- go -. ~. F..
Berlin Admits a Setback.
The news from the Eastern front is
equally satisfactory from the allied
point of view. The German official
communication at last admits that
the fighting on the Stokhod line is
approaching Kovel on both sides of
the railway, and claims that the Rus
slams have been driven back near
Huleviche.
Heavy Fighting on Both Fronts.
London, July 11.-On both eastern
and western fronts heavy fighting
persists. This is especially the case
on the western front, where the strug-
gle is not without fluctuations of for
tune and brings to mind the warnings
of the correspondents from the open
ing of the Somme battle that steady,
methodicaf pressure rather than bril-
liant advances must be expected.
The British official statement to-
night says that the Germans have en-
tered Trones Wood and records fur
Their progress east of Ovillers and La
cured by the British in the Mametz
Wood, where heretofore the Germans
had resisted all the British efforts.
The German official communication
admits French possession of Biaches,
| only a short distance from Peronne,
which town is thus seriously exposed
and threatened.
There has apparently been no halt
of the Russian advance toward KoveI
in Volhynia. The German defenses
along the Stokhod river have been
unable to stay the progress of the
Russians, who, though strongly op-
posed, have crossed the river at vari-
Gus points. The latest communica-
ton from Russian general headquar-
tiers shows that the two opposing
armies are in the midst of a terrific
struggle, for it mentions that the enc
my rallied and made desperate eff
forts to maintain his positions on the
left bank of the river
The Germans are continuing their
strong attacks along the Russian
front, but the view is held here that
this is only with the object of gaining
time to perfect the defenses of Koyel
and Vladimir-Volynski and to remove
large stores of military material from
these points to Brest-Litovsk and
Ivangorod.
Vienna, July 1.-THE Austrian Off
cial statement, issued today, reads:
italian Theater-There has been
bitter fighting between the Brenta and
the Etsch. Strong Alpine forces re-
peatedly attacked our line southwest
Of Cimadfeci, but were repulsed with
heavy losses by our infantry. More
than eight hundred Italian dead were
left before our trenches"