Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-07-18
SETBACK FOR BRITISH ARMS.
Germans Make Drive in West While
Losing in tho East.

New York, July 11.--Just as the
Russians in the east have torn big
gap in the Austro-German lines in
Galicia, captured Halicz and pressed
on toward Lemberg, the Galician
capital, the Germans on the western
front have started a menacng oGfen-
sive near the Belgian coast.
This movement, while it may turn
out to be nothing but Il local effort
or something with which the British
can cope after the shock of the first
thrust has been met, nevertheless in
dicates the possibility of determin-
ed attempt to bend back the British
flank on the Belgian coast and reach
the French city Of Dunkirk, about II
miles distant.
Germans Reach User East Bank.
The Germans succeeded in their
initial push by leveling the defenses
through an intense bombardmeni for
"a hours and then attacking last
evening over the devastated grou I'D.
stroyed by the heavy fire and the
sending up Of reinforcements was
found impossible. Thus penetra-
tion 600 yards deep OH front of L.
400 wards was effected. the Germans
pushing as far as the east bank Of
the User near the North Sea.
The attack also extended farther
south, opposite Lombaertzyde, but
here, after having temporarily driven
in the British advance line, Il coun-
ter attack forced the Germans back
| to their original positions.
There have been no serious at
tempts by the Germans to break
through the British front in Bel
| GUM since their two campaigns for
Calais in the early months Of the
war. The first was checked along the
Belgian front by the combined Brit
ish and Belgian defenses, aided by
| the participation of British warships
| along the coast. In the second bat
tie OF fpreS, in the fall Of 1914, the
Germans sacrificed thousands of men
in a terrific drive. but failed to ef-
feet a penetration.
Reports from London to-day indi-
cate that the battle in Belgium is
still in progress. The sounds Of
heavy firing, heard in England all
day yesterday, were again heard to-
day, beginning at dawn.
Russians Open Road to Lcmberg.
In the sensational campaign which
the revolutionary army of Russia is
waging in Galicia, the capture OF
'Hallcz, important though it is, is only
an incidental feature. Given secure
possession Of it, the Russians have
| the road to Lemberg we'll opened up
| to them, and a continuation OF their
attacks on anything like the scale of
| the last ten days seems likely to re-
suit in the fall of the Galician capi-
tai at no distant date.
In capturing Halicz the Russians
took more than 80 guns and numer-
| Gus prisoners. The Russians, advices
to the Russian war Office say, are con-
tinuing their advance, pursuing the
retreating Austro-German forces.
To-day's Russian official statement
reveals clearly that the Russians, be-
sides menacing Lemberg, also are
carrying out movement embodying
serious threat to the Austro-G
| man front running south through the
Carpathians to the Moldavian noun
tain region.
The advance by the Russian ar
mics on the Bogorodchan Zolotvin
front represents drive into the Car
pathian foothills. Zolotvin Cor Solot-
vina) is 90 miles southwest of Sta
nislau, and the front Of the advance
mentioned, running northward to
Bogorodchan, Is 10 miles in length.
Iolotvin Is bare 20 miles from the
crest Of the Carpathians along the
Galician-Hungarian border. The
available passes, however, lie chiefly
some distance either west or south
east OF this line.
Two thousand prisoners were taken
by the Russians during the fighting
in Galicia yesterday
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