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With French Aid Allies Begin
Second Offensive
RUSH OF THE INFANTRY
Russians Renew Their Great
Drive Upon the Austrians;
How About Italians
United Press Dispatch.

London, Eng, July 5.-The SUI
preme offensive of the Franco
British allies against the Germans
has reached its second phase.
The mighty British and French
guns have commenced a second ire
mendous bombardment of the Ger
mans front in preparation for another
rush of the allied infantry on wide
front. The Germans are hurrying re-
Inducements to the line, but it is not
thought that these reinforcements
have been taken from any other por-
ton of the western front, but con-
sist of the mobile reserves, which the
German government has hurried hith-
er, and wherever it has been thought
the danger to Germany was the great
est.
On Eastern Front
On the eastern front the Russians
have renewed their great drive
against the Austro- Germans. This is
over a front of 500 miles in extent
1t is not thought that the Russians
now aim so much at doing anything
spectacular, but that they intend to
make a steady forward movement. 1t
is stated in some dispatches that
Russian troops are pushing forward
right into Hungary.
On the Trentino front the prog
ress of the Italians is slow but
steady.
On the western front the French
have captured four times as much
territory and taken many more pris-
oners than the British, who have
been operating north of the Somme
much stronger than south of it. The
French have been breaking through
the German resistance and pushing
right on to Peronne North of the
Somme the lay of the land is more
difficult for offensive operations.
Was Not Anticipated.
1t is understood that the German
generals have been of the opinion
that France had all she could do in
keeping up the defense of Verdun, and
they apparently did not anticipate a
French offensive elsewhere. Hence
they did not strengthen their lines In
preparation for it. Moreover, it is be-
lieved that the Germans were anxi-
Gus to obtain a signal - victory over
the British in order to satisfy anti
British feeling in Germany and per-
haps with a view to compelling Great
Britain to ask for a separate peace
Hence, the German lines were made
very strong along the British front in
France.
London, Eng, July 5.-British
troops are pressing forward against
the Germans from ANGLE to the
Somme.
Paris, France, July Both north
and south of the Somme river, the
allies are pushing steadily and sue
cessfully forward against the Ger
mans
Paris. July 5.-The French captured
A line of German trenches east of Cur
lu. the war office announced today
Also they captured Sormont farm and
Pairing Clary.
The London Statement.
- ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l
London, July 5.-"Heavy fighting
continued throughout the night in the
neighborhood of Anore and Somme, "
says an. official statement, time p. m.
which was given out today 1--WE made
further progress at certain important
points. The German artillery has
been, active in certain sectors and in
the neighborhood of Thiepval two de-
termiried attacks on our new trenches
were beaten off with loss to the en-
envy.
There were no important devel-
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