Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-29
Heavy German Losses

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 Heavy German Losses
 In April the British transferred the'r offensive northeast of Arras, forcing von Hindenberg to redistribut5 hs forces along a 15-mile front. Canddiaas played historic part in this fighting. Mouchy-le-Pr Preux was taken and Nimy Ridge was captured after one of the worlds blOodiest battles. Cauadiahs held the ridge against desperate coun- ter attacks. This success east of Ar ras turned Hindenberg's northern pivot, and British critics regarded l, as the greatest in the history of British arms in the present war. This ofTen- sive, continued, placed the British as, tride the Hindenberg line, and the Germans retired to positions a mile CT two west of the Drocourt-Queant line. These they held as the third year closed.
 Meanwhile the battles of Champaign and the Aisne had been carried on by the French, who in April captured Auberive. In the grst days of Cham paign offensive one of the gr,atest struggles of the war, the Germans suS- tained an estimated loss of 100,500 killed. wounded and taken prisoners through their desperate defensive op- erations Fighting in these regions continues after three months, during which the French have advanced from one to five miles along a 50-mile front. The present French line runs from northwest of Soissons through Rheims to Auberive.
 In June, 1917, the British began al attack on Messines and Wyschaete in an effort to straighten out the YpreS salient. Again British flyers dominar- ed the air. The British had spent an entire year mining the earth for tnis offensive, winch was begun with an eX- plosion so terrific that it was hearl in London. Beyond Messines, for two miles east and northeast, the British won and consolidated ground, capiur- ed more than 7400 prisoners and great stores of artillery. Gaining every oh- jective, they placed themselves astride the Ypres-Comines Canal. having ad- vanced three miles on an eight-mile front. Portuguese and Belgian troops aided in this offensive. In recent days the fighting there had been confined to raiding operations.
 SIays Hammer Teutons
 It is estimated that during April. May and June the Germans suffered 350.OO0 casualties on the western front.
 The Russians, having in June of 1916 begun an offensive from the Pripet Marshes to the Rumanian frontier speedily captured Czernowitz and the rest of Bukovina, together with Brody in Galicia, and in August they entered Stanislau for the third time in the war. These operations forced the Austro- Germans to relinquish lines they had held throughout the winter of 19l5- 1916.
 The Halicz bridgehead fell in Sepl- ember, but the subsequent advance oS Lemberg was not prosecuted because the plight of Rumania demanded the transfer of Russian troops to aid their Balkan ally.
 After the Russian revolution the Russians made feint to advance or Pinsk, to cover the actual operations resumed in July against Lemburg. This latter front extended 1872 miles. Known as Regiments July First, !" these troops. reinvigorated by the con sciousness of political liberty, con- founded German military prophets by the magnitude and extent of their of fensive.
 Led by Alexander Kerensky, minis ter of war. and observed by American army officers, the Regiments July First" forced the Teutons to evacuate