Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-10
MAR SUMMARY

! The German army under Crown
 Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria. appar-
 ently has not recovered from the blow made against its lines south of
 Ypres by the second British army Thursday Shaken by the mine ex- l plosions and the terrific bombardment of the British guns. the Germans lost
 more than 1000 prisoners and have
 made no strong effort to retake the i lost positions.
 Their unavailing attacks of Friday
 having been stopped. the Germans Sat urday renewed their attempt and ! were content to use only their artil- ! lery in duel with the British. The newly gained ground having been torn by the mine explosions and filled with shell craters. the British were busy
 Saturday in organizing their new posi- tions. They found time, however. to extend their gains slightly on the right bank of the nine-mile front.
 Tn addition to losing more than 1000 prisoners in the British drive and the subsequent fighting since Thursday morning. the Germans lost large number of guns, machine guns and trench mortars.
 Demand for trial and punishment of Nicholas Romanoff. the deposed em- peror, is growing throughout Russia. The crews of three Russian warships have asked that the former emperor be confined at Kronstadt until he is placed on trial and they threaten force if their demand is rejected.
 Both official and unofficial dis patches show that the Germans made determined efforts Friday night to re- instate themselves in the Messines salient from which the British drove them in Thursdays memorable at tack.
 General Runners operation had been too we'll planned and executed. however. and his men were too well placed in their new positions. for the German effort to have any measure of success. The British brought up their artillery with extraordinary prompti- tude and although they had to fight the Germans a hard battle along the six-mile front, they held their line in- tact and inflicted frightful losses upon the enemy.
 Meanwhile the British troops in other sectors of the front carried out an operation that was much more than a mere raid in force along the line from La Bassee to well south of Lens. In one stretch of two miles south of Lens they penetrated half a mile into the German positions, cap- turing prisoners and machine guns and infiicting heavy losses. These seem to presage a speedy attempt 10 clean up the situation around the Lens coal district. to which the Ger mans have been clinging for several weeks.
 Reports from the Nessines battle area show that more than 90 guns were taken from the Germans in the British attack while many others were buried in the debris caused by the terrific bombardment and mine ex- plosions.
 The Italians have indicated that they are expecting an Austrian offen- sive in the Trentino. There is no in- dication of any such contemplated at tack as yet. the reports annotrhcing only normal activities in the Tren- | tho. The Austrians are still contest | ing the ground occupied by the 'Ital- ians in their notable thrust for Trieste, however, and attacked sev- eral times Friday night. The Italians beat off all these assaults.
 There has been little military activ- ity along the Russian front but the Germans evidently have been busy in other ways. for Petrograd reports a message sent to the Russian armies by the German commander in chief on the eastern front in an at tempt to inveigle them into an armis- tice and secret negotiations with the German leaders. The council of sol dier's' and workmen's delegates have denounced the German effort to induce the Russians to play their allies false.