The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-25
RUSSIAN FORCES
DRIVE GERMANS
BACK Z MILES
Many Germans Made Prisoners
In Fighting Around
Verdun.
BRITISH AND FRENCH GAIN
British Take Strongly Fortified
Town of Posieres Despite the
Stubborn Resistance-Posi-
tiohs Are of Great Importance
French Capture Germans.
AND FRENCH GAIN

LONDON, July 24.-British troops
have captured a large part of the vii
lage of Fozieres, says the official Brit
ish statement issued this afternoon.
They also gained some ground near
High Wood in the direction of Gull
lemont.
The night, the statement adds. was
comparatively calm.
The Germans have been driven
back twelve miles at one point on the
Riga front according to a Reuters
dispatch from Petrograd. Progress for
the Russians is claimed on front
running from the Gulf of Riga to Tx
kull of more than 80 miles, the great
est advance being made along the
coast line.
The dispatch says that fighting went
on without pause for four days prior
to Sunday. 1t has now halted as the
Russians require time to consolidate
the ground they have gained and the
Germans are waiting for reinforce
ments, being brought from other sec
tions of the eastern front
PETROGRAD, July "a (Via Lon
don.)-Forces of Emperor Nicholas,
operating in Turkish Armenia, are
steadily advancing upon the fortified
town of Erzingan from the north and
the south, says a Russian statement
issued today. On the east the Rus
sian advance guards are within Is
miles of the place, which is 80 miles
southwest of ErZerum.
The Russians are now attacking the
Austro-Hungarian forces along the
main ridge of the Carpathian noun
tains, in Southern Galicia.
The heavy rains an the stubborn
resistance of the Austro-Germans
have been unable to check the Mus
covite advance.
Heavy fighting is reported between
the towns cf Kimpolung and Paletyn.
1t is unofficially reported that General
Sajarhoc has crossed into Galicia.
To the south of Riga the German
forces have been rolled back for five
miles.
PARIS, July 24-Bad weather pre-
walls along the Somme front in North
ern France, and last night passed qui-
etly with the French troops there, the
watxeffice announced today.
IN raid near Vailly, north of the
Aisne German trenches were pene-
trated and some prisoners taken.
On the Verdun front east of the
Meuse, there were small local engage
ments in the course of which the
French took thirty prisoners, making
the total taken prisoners during the
last ten days in this district, 800.
Sub-Lieut. Chaput, of the aviation
corps, brought down his eighth
hostile aeroplane near Fresnes in the
Woevre region.
CONSTANTINOPLE July 24(ViG
London) A defeat of British cavalry
defeat of British cavalry detachments
by Turkish forces east of Suez, near
the canal. is announced by army head
quarters in today's official statement.
The British fled towards the canal
pursued by the Turks. British detach-
ments advancing west of Katia, thirty
miles from the canal, were driven off
by Turkish skirmishers. The state
ment also announces a further retreat
of Russian forces in Persia before
Turkish pressure.
LONDON, July 24.-Six German tor
pedo boat destroyers were engaged in
a running fight by British light forces
off SchOuwen bank yesterday says
an official statement issued by the
British admiralty this afternoon. The
German vessels were repeatedly hit
but they succeeded in reaching the
Belgian coast.