The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-17
important Positions Are Taken,
More Than a Thousand Prison
ers and Five Heavy Guns, With
a Number Of Machine Guns
HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL
REPORTED BY FRENCH
British Reports Say Few Prison
ers Lost In Flanders Except
Among Wounded, and Series Of
Raids North Of Lens Checked
(Associated Press BY D. 8 Naval oom-
mnnication service)


(Associated Press BY o. 8 Naval oom-
munication service)
M EW YORK, July I4Press-
~ ing steadily on, the Rus
slams in Gallcia are breaking
INTO the. Zlota Lipa line, attempt
no to drive still deeper and wider
the wedge thrust forward from
Stanislau. The tip of this
wedge is directed towards the
Kalusz-L emberg railroad line at
a point between DoIina and Styrl.
0oIlna now lies twenty miles to
the southwest Of the Russian
army, with Styri twenty-five
niles to the northwest.
The capture Of stryi, one Of the inn.
pottant towns OF Eastern Galicia. win
.yut General Korniloif In such position
a to outfank the main Teuton line dc.
Tending Lemberg and will force its re.
irement for forty miles to the Bug
hiver, and possibly still further back
Q the defense line prepared before
PrzemysL The A1stro- Germans have
heid the zlota Lipa line for more than
Z year now, the Russian Offensive at
that time being held by these defenses.
In the capture of Kalusz, Korniloff
ook more thHn a thousand prisoners.
i've heavy guns and number of ma.
& hine guns, AZ
Farther north along the Russian
Front there are increasing indieations
of a resumption Of heavy fighting. es.
alecially along that, section Of the line
chat skirts the Pripet marshes. near
r'insk, while a general Russian often
1--WE In Rurnapia may be expected at
any time at'g
There has been no infantry fighting
along the French front, but the day
was marked by a tremendous increase
!, n the artillery fighting, from st. ouen.
tin, on the extreme west of the French
lines, along the Aisne and Champagne
fronts and to the Meuse, in the Verdun
sseetor, where the big guns are at work
on both banks. = RI. ..l'
4 The French airmen were also partic-
aiariy busy, driving back and destroy
ing the German air spoilers. Ten Ger.
man machines were destroyed while at.
tempting to assist their artillerymen,
,hese dropping back Of the French
ines stf7tafT lE&s E-.E s.sI|T
Describing the recent German sue.
less upon the western lines in Flanders,
when a section OF British trenches was
I'aptnred and the defenders either
killed or taken prisoners, a despatch
rom the British headquarters in
France says: " 81. .-N}. llg.s
{ "TheN German attack upon our lines
tlong the Belgian Coast on Tuesday
vas miniature duplication of the re.
emit British attack against the Mess
tines positions, made on June z. ,Ap-
!larently the Germans have adopted our
method for this operation and with the
Use of high explosive shells they OBJ
literated the Notifications which they
lad prepared themselves and which the
British had recently taken from them.
The British holding the isolated
iector attacked fought brayely to the
md and against overwhelming odds.
sfhe Germans claim that they took 1850
prisoners, but this cannot be. Few
prisoners were taken except the wound,
ID. Our men fought until only rem
hant OF their force survived and the
;reater part of this remnant swan the
User and reached our supporting lines.
Had the bridges not been destroyed,
and the escape of the British thus cut
y'ff, the greater part of the eighteen
hundred men in the sector would have
been able to fall back. -
Yesterday, according TO an official
. 'espatch from London, the British car.
led out a series of raids against the
Germans sonth of Huiluch, 20 the north
u Lens, taking few prisoners and
destroying a number of enemy out.
osts. German raiders were also busy,
Z triking the British lines iul Flanders
outheast of Cayrelle ANDY east of
Jieuport These raiders were driven
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