The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-28
Drawing Nearer To Fortified City
Of Erzingan, While Other COL
umns Are Aimed At Other Of
toman FortresseS of Armenia
Won LlNSINGEN'S LINES
ARE REPORTED PENETRATED
Berlin Admits Reverse At East.
ern Front, While British and
French Keep On Hammering
At Teutonic Lines On Somme

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal, wirsless.)
~ ARTS. July 26.-In all theaters of
the great war the hammering
of the TCutons and their allies
by the troops of the Entente continues
with undated fury, according to the
official statements issued from the diff
ferent capitals of the warning nations
last night
East and west the Allies are claiming
gains for their soldiers, and in mt least
one field of battle Berlin has admitted
a serious reverse. The official German
statement Yesterday afternoon said
that the Slav attacks against the lines
held by Field marshal Won Linsingen
have been ut last successful in pene-
trating the German and Austrian front.
Stokhod Battle Furious Al.
The struggle on the Stokhod front
continues with a Jury not seen any.
where else on the cast. II is here ap.
parently that the fate or the German
and Austrian armies in Russia and
Galicia must be settled one way or the
other, and the battle has swung back
and forth without leasing, ana with
but little change in the mes of the
&C ntestants.
General BrussiIof u reported to
have been gathering fresh masses OF
mon to throw against Won linsingen's
lines, and with these he seems to have
nh fn NJ In ID
across the little fifty foot wide stream.
with marshy banks, which has blocked
his progress toward Kovel, the key TO
the whole German front in the east,
for so long
South, in Armenia, and in the upper
Euphrates valley the fighting of the
Russians under the Grand Duke goes
forward with vim again after long
pause. The Grand Duke now reports
that he is driving the Turks back from
their defensive lines cas-. of Erzingan,
and that his main armies have been
1 able to force a passage TO within ten
miles of that city. .....l
Result OF Heavy Fighting
This gain he says in his official re-
ports, has been the result of the slow
but steady gains made in the fighting
of which the world has heard little OF
late. The heights that command the
city have been crowned at last and the
place, says the Russian commander, is
expected to fall within short time.
The Grand Duke is pressing forward
in three great offensive movements.
One of them is aimed at Baiburt, and
second at Gumiskhaneh and the third ut
Mamahatum. .-..s. e..
The Russians claim that the evacu-
alton of the fortress Of Erzingan has
commenced, and the Turks are but
holding it while preparing another line
of defense with new base at Sivas,
thirteen miles west. Sivas is on the
| proposed line of the railroad from Con
stantinople 10 Bagdad, toward which
the Russians have been steadily pro.
crossing for months. 1t is also an
| important caravan station.
British Report Gains
In the eastern fighting the Germans
have been driven out of most of the
town of POzieTes by the fierce attacks
of the British Amaze troops, and the
London official statement of the day 3
battle tells of fierce hand to hand en-
gagrments at various points along the
whole western front. The Germans are
! said IT, have been unable TO successful.
w I""rch COUNTER attacks against the
British a. Pozicres, having been driven
bHrk by the British artillery.
"ho fThtirC has resulted in slow
gains from the Anzacs, according TO
he official accounts from London, and
the R"''ish hive held all the ground
they hive gained and repulsed all
counters.
South of the River Somme the
Fr"rch report having taken number
Of hlo""houscs from the Germans, and
below Estrecs and north of Vermando.
Villers the Germans have been driven
ont of their positions, which are occu-
! pied by the French.