The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-27
ALLIES OPENING
 THE NUT-CRACkER
Reversing Operations to the Dis comfort of the German Crown Prince and His Invention-Brit-
 iSh Offensive Slow But Sure.

London, July 2i.-The German Crown Prince invented the nut cracker style of attack. where en- circling arms strive to squeeze out the resistance on given sector, but it remained for the Franco British offensive to reverse and put this style of offensive to another use.
 Briefly, the scheme is to advance a wedge-the outer points of the two arms from the wedge The Germans squeeze an open nut cracker together; the allies are opening a closed nut-cracker. Such scheme IS in operation today in the Peronne sector, the British swinging forward their arm of the lnut-cracSer with terrific attacks in LongueVal and the Delvile woods and the French pressing forward south of peronne.
 Floods are helping the Germans to withstand the allied assault. Not only in the west but in the east bat tie regions. so devastating has been the French artillery fire that on the left bank of the S0mme across from Peronne, a new marsh has been ere | ated by blasing away of earth by shells. Water from the Somme has seeped into the vast shell craters, making veritable inferno of mud, fire, smoke, steel and fumes of ex- ploding shells.
 In Galicia, Petrograd reported to- day. the overflowing of the River Dneister has hampered the Russian advance. On the northern Russian line, General Brusiloff was hurling his men forward today in a continu- ation of the assault on the Riga sec tor. Dispatches from Berlin re- flected anxiety there as to the abil- ity of the Teutonic forces to with stand this terrific assault without retiring.
 Yesterdays gains by French as- saults around Peronne give the Frane0-British forces a perfected line of communication in the rail- road from Clery nearly to Combles, following in a general way the line of the front Combles has been used by the Germans as a depot distrib- uting center but today, with the town in the direct zone of French artillery fire. and likely to fall at any moment. the German forces have been compelled to change their supply base to a point further back.
 Roar of Guns Is Continuous. The roar of guns is continuous and resembles the heavy roll of thunder. | The Germans are replying only Oc- casionally Either they are serious 1 " outgunned, or are saving thelr ammunition.
 British aircraft without molesta- tlon, are directing the fire of the ar tillery. Since the beginning of the Anglo-French push German aircraft | have been surprisingly silent AL lied flyers and balloon observers have been working in perfect secur- ! ity. obtaining most valuable infor- nation
 Imagine says a correspondent, "a giant steam rolled passing over any American town of 2000 inhahi- tants and you get an idea of Fri court today. The little French town has been literally wiped off the map. German dug0uts and shell holes represent the sDike holes of a huge steam roller. The rest of the town is flattened in debris. Here and there from the hole of a battered-in German dug0ut comes a sickoning stencil that tells of rotting corpses.
 The fate of Frieourt is typical of that of any other villages plotted cut by high explosives.
 British Are in No Hurry
 High British officers say that tho purposes of the British offensive is not speed but to recover hv slow, steady pushes every yard of invaded 1 French and Belgian territory at q minimum expenditure of human blood and by q heavy expenditure of powerful explosives. of which 1 there is an ample supply.