New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Intense Bombardment Over
33 Miles from Coast to
French Border
Fliers on Offensive
British Airmen Bomb Rail.
way functions Far Back
of Line
DAYS DEVELOPMENTS

hOrnlloH armies cross Nussldn ifOnilci
in continued withdrawal from Galicia, hav-
ing reteated one hundred miles. Bukowina
being rapidly evacuated, with Teuions closing
in on C1ernowitz from two directions. Ru-
manians press foe on eighteen-mile 'front.'
having penetrated defence over nine miles,
Take ,245 prisoners, two howit1er bat,erie,
and nine guns.
Artillery battle in Flanders reaches maxi
mum intensity of war. Extraordinary all
fighting. British lose thirteen machines
thirty German plane, brought down. Ere.
quent trench raids.
French repul,e repeated attack, Of Ger.
mans on eastern Chemin- -des- Danes. Gain
south of Allies.
London, July 29.-What is officially
admitted to be the greatest artillery
battle of the war has been raging in
Flanders without interruption through
out the last twenty-four hours. 1t de.
veloped an excess of violence over the
previous two weeks bombardment
which had been hitherto unprecedented
Describing the duel, the Berlin day
commique says: "The artilleristic in
tensity represents the highest degree
Of massed effect in the war" As the
front included between the Belgian
coast and the French border is thirty.
three miles, the concentration Of heavy
and light batteries is undoubtedly enor.
nous and the expenditure OF munitions
almost incredible.
Accompanying th,s climacteric gun,
fire there was almost equal activity in
the air, with the British fiers on the
offensive all along the line. During
Friday night squadrons from the Royal
Flying Corps bombed a number Of i'm.
portant railway functions we'll back OF
the enemy lines and dropped explosives
on two Of his airdromes, continuing the
same work during the day, and in ad
dition taking hundreds OF aerial photo
graphs. In the squadron and single
combats which developed thirty Ger.
man planes were accounted for, six.
teen of which were destroyed, while
the remainder were driven down out ot
control. Two enemy observation bal
looms fell in flames.
Haig Reports Thirteen Missing
General Haig reports that thirtser
British aviators are missing, and Ber'
lin asserts that thirty-fve French anc
British planes we're demolished. cnt
German pursuit squadron havirs
downed six Allied airmen.
All last night the British raidinl
forces were busy from we'll below
Cambrai to north Of Ypres, and appar,
emily in greater strength than at any
northeast Of Epehy, southeast o.
Croisilles, and near Fleurbaix.
Berlin says that these infantry ac
tion5 were desperate" The British
after hard fighting, broke into the hos
tile trenches near the Roeux Chemica
Works, north Of the Scarpe, and re
turned with thirty prisoners, a trench
mortar and several machine guns. A
Ypres ffty-four prisoners and two ma
chine guns were taGsn. The great OBJ
iect OF these raids Is to bring in cap
tives, from whom information as to tn,
enemy formations may be CLEANED. The
only hostile attempt was south of Mes
sines, where the attack was repulsed.
There was also stiff fighting on tn,
front held by Petain's troops, tkouga
the Crown Princes offensive on the
min-des-Dames apparently is losin-
some of the power it had earlier In the
week, probably on account of the Brit
ish pressure to the north. All the Ger
man efforts yesterday and last nigh
failed without compensating gains.