The Raymer enterprise., 1916-07-20
AUSTR0.GERMANS
LOSE 1900 men
SECOND LINE GERMAN TRENCHES
ON FouR-MlLE FRONT IN
BRITISH HANDS.
THREE VILLAGES FALL
MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED IN
ALL.DAY BATTLE BY GEN.
HAlG's TROOPS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-"Further important sue
cesses" on the German second line
have been gained by the British, ac.
cording to the official communication.
The British captured the whole OF Del
Vile wood and repulsed strong
counter attack.
The British forces have held all the
ground gained in Fridays advance
and taken two or three more small
sectors of trenches in the German sec
ond line.
Two thousand prisoners were cap
tured at the last advance and at one
point the British are four miles be-
yond the German first line, which they
crossed thirteen days ago. In all, 10,-
900 prisoners. and quantities of war
material, have fallen into British
hands.
The Belgian communication says the
Germans attempted an attack against
their advanced posts In the neighbor-
hood of oudstyyekenskerke. They
were completely repulsed.
Russian troops have captured the
town of Baiburt in Turkish Armenia
by assault. This information was
given in an official statement issued
by the Russian War Department Bal.
burt is sixty.five miles northwest OF
Erzerum and about sixty miles south
of the Black Sea port of Trebizond.
Petrograd, July ia furious coun.
ter attack was launched by Austrian
and German forces against the Rus
SLAMS west OF the Stripa. The war or
flee announcement says that In this
region the Russians took 1920 pris-
oners and captured two big guns and
nineteen machine guns.
London.-The fierce counter at
tacks made by the Germans In an
effort to reconquer some OF ths
ground captured by the British wero
completely crushed by the British
fire, according to the official state
ment issued by the war office.
On the day of the French national
fete, when every Londoner wore in
his buttonhol, a tricolor ribbon in
honor of his allies, came the news OF
the successful British attack on tho
German second line, which opened be.
fore dawn and carried a number OF
new positions.
The days fighting resulted in
steady increase in British gains, leav-
ing them in possession Of the en-.
emy's second position from Bazentin-
lie Petit to Longueval, both inclusive,
and the whole OF Trones wood. A
number of prisoners were taken, in
cluding two colonels and other su.
perior officers.
Fienna,-The Russians penetrated
the Austrian lines northwest of BE
czacz after fierce fighting, but were
driven out by counter attack, ac-
cording to the official statement.
Berlin.-New end violent battles
were fought on both sides of the riv-
er Somme, says the official statement
given out by the German army head
quarters staff.
Russian forces which mad entered
the first line of the German trenches
defended by troops of Gsn. Count Won
Bothmer were elected with consider
able losses ly counter-attack, the
German official statement says.
Paris.-The bombardment along the
Belgian front has reached a point of
the greatest intensity, according to
the official statement issued by the
French war office. 4
London, July 13.-More than 100000
German bayonets are opposing Gen.
Haig's advance, according to reports
OF French airmen In this drive tho
British are aiming for the crest of the
ridge commanding the wide plateau
which Is held by the Germans and
which is considered the key to the
situation north Of the Somme.
Banks Adopt Check Clearance.