Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-08
Several Important Gains Recorded Against Ger
 mans in So1nme Fighting.
RUSSIANS ATTACK
 ON 3O0-MILE LINE
Military Critics in London Assert that Unless Germans Gan Halt Russian Advance, TemtOns Must Withdraw
 Along Entire Western Front.

London July 1.-The British have x resumed their sledge hammer blows # against the German line in the Som
 me sector, and after day of terrific
 fighting have carried the German
 trenches at three points along the < front Latest reports from British
 headuuarters say that fighting is con-
 tinuous.
 The British gains, while not result
 ing in any substantial advance, are
 characterized by the war office as
 important from strategical view
 point. Their greatest success was east of LaBoisselle, where they cap tured German trenches in extent of
 nearly 2,OoO yards to 3 depth of 800
 yards. This gain was in addition to a, 1000 yards of trenches taken by as sault Thursday night.
 The bitterest fighting of the day oc ! cured on the center of the line of Y attack, about the two villages of Ovil-
 Hers and Contalmaison. British
 brigade forced it's way to Ovillers and
 engaged in desperate struggle for \ Possession of the village.
 gB At Contalmaison a division of the
 Prussian guard was hurled into the
 fight to check the British advance, < After the village had been carried by
 assault.
 AN Contamination was recaptured by sSthe Germans, but 700 prisoners were syleft in the hands of the British. On the French end of the Somme
 sector, there was a Hull in the fight #aing. The French official report docs mot even mention the usual artillery NGlucls, which still fill the intervals be- < Tween infantry assaults.
 s Germans Hit Verdun Hard. &8 The violence of the British offen- S eive failed, however, to divert the at Stention of the Germans from their
 desperate effort to capture Verdun. Assault after assault was delivered v Against the French line in the sore 8 N battered Thiaumont region, but ac-
 Wording 10 Paris, all were in vain.
 Surpassing even in importance the
 entente allies great effort on the Z awestern front, the news from the
 eastern battlefield showed that the Russians have extended their offen { Bive on an unprecedented scale sl On the whole front from Riga to Baranovichi, a distance of nearly 300
 Iniles, the Russians are being hurled < aeainst the German line. Further x south, General Kaleiuines is driving < Ateadily forward toward Kovel and HhAs captured two villages and rail- 3SE0ad station on the Varny-Kovel road Hillary critics Of the allies assert that unless the Germans can halt K the Russian advance in the immedi- " te future, they will have to with draw their line along the entire saIestern front, and probably abandon V emburg.
 Italians claim continued pro- x Iess for their offensive in the Tren- N 3ltO district but there has been no S' aflSfI3at change in this field of the war f London, July 1.-The British troops x their new advance have gained N SS1Reral important successes. among N, S,4ich are the capture of further x Sa10rtions of a strong position known the Lsipzig redoubi, according to V {he official statement issued by the
 Iaondon war office tonight. On the eastern front the Russians, < a1Vko now apparently have even a bet Seter supply of guns and ammunition ss linn their adversaries, seem to pass ff0m one phase to the next without < lnrmission.
 seneral Letchitzky's army, which e GX&puered Bukowina and cut the rail- MY between Delatyn and Korosmezo, Advancing in an effort completely K 0Rovercome the Austrian forces on
 thSt front.
 General Kaleidnes is continuing to
 1eaiver heavy strokes against the Aus
 ans and Germans who are en- X 'desvoring to keep him from Kovel. S'With these operations in full swing <. the Russians to the north have inaugu- ' fated an offensive from Riga to Baramovichi. Along the northern end X of the line from Riga to Dvinsk a
 great bombardment has begun, while x from a point east of Wilma to Barano-
 vichi artillery preparation was fol- lowed by infantry attacks in which < ths Russians report they made many
 pxisoners, repulsing German counter x sttacks. Near Smorgon the Russians sN5Ss4d Corpoorc a1cO ara nnuaCad in a