Arizona republican., 1917-07-30
THIRD YEAR IF WORLD, VAR
 VAR FINDS THE ADvANTACE
 WITH THE ENTENTE POWERS

forcing VOn HlndenDurg to redlStr1- bate his forces along a fifteen-mile front. Canadians played a historic part in this fighting. Monchy-le- PreuX was taken; and Vimy Ridge was captured after one of the worlds bloodiest battles. Canadians held the ridge against desperate counter-at- tacks. This success east of Arras turned Hindenburg's northern pivot. and British critics regarded it as the greatest in the history of British arms
 in the present war. This offensive continued placed the British astride the Hindenburg line, and the Germans retired to positions mile or two west
 to the Drocourt- -Queant line. These
 they held as the third year closed. Meanwhile the battles of Champagne and the Aisne had been carried on
 by the French, who in April captured 1 Auberive. In the first days of Cham
 paign offensive, one of the greatest
 struggles of the war, the Germans sus-
 tained an estimated JOSS of 100000
 killed. wounded and taken prisoners
 through their desperate defensive
 operations. Fighting in these regions continues after three months, during which the French have advanced from | one to five miles along a fifty mile 1 front. The present French line runs l from one to five miles along a fifty mile front The present French line
 runs from northwest of Soissons, | through Rheims to Auberive.
 In June 1917, the British began an
 attack on Messines and Wyschaete in
 salient. Again British flyers domi mated the air. The British had spent an entire year mining the earth for this offensive which was begun with an {. T an effort to straighten out ,the Ypres
 in London Beyond Messines, for two
 miles east and northeast the British
 won and consolidated ground, cap
 tured more than 7400 prisoners and great stores of artillery. Gaining every
 objective, they placed themselves
 astride the Ypres Confines canal, hay
 ing advanced. three miles on an eight . mile front, Portuguese and Belgian troops aided in this offensive. In re- cent days the fighting there had beer confined to raiding operations. It is estimated that during April \ May and June the Germans suffered
 350,000 casualties on the Westerr
 front.
 The Russians, having in June O 1916 begun an offensive from tn, Pripet Marshes to the RumaniaI
 
 and the rest of Bukovina, togethe with Brody in Galicia, and in Angus
 they entered Stanislau for the thirt : time in the war. These operation forced the Austro- Germans to relin quish lines they had held throughou the winter of 1915-1916.
 The Halicz bridgehead fell in Sep tember. but the subsequent advanc on Pinsk, to cover the actual opera : tions resumed in July against Lem : burg. This latter front extende
 eighteen and a half miles. Known a : Regiments July First" these troops 9 reinvigorated by the consciousness o
 political liberty. confounded German : military prophets by the magnitud r and extent of their offensive
 9 Led by Alexander Kerensky, minis l ter of war, and observed by America s army officers, the Regiments Jul ) First forced the Teutons to evacuat
 1 Brzezany, and they captured man n imortant positions, including terrai = west and south of Halicz town an = strongly defended positions northweS 7, of Stanislau. On July Il Halicz wa e taken. thus smashing the Austro-Gef e man front between Brzezany and tn = Carpathians.
 : This Russian operation broadene by mid July, so that it extended frol
 the Gulf of Riga to the Rumania = front. a distance of 500 miles. Tn e Germans were reported to be rushin e troops from the Italian and Frenc d fronts. Widespread enthusiasm wa . created throughout Russia. and tf y moral effect on the other entente pow
 CTS was tremendous.
 e Italy declaring war against German = on August 2S, began a more vigorol = prosecution of her earlier offensiy ,, against Austria.
 = With dramatic swiftness the thir l, army under the Duke of Aost : stormed and captured Gorizia, hithel y to considered impregnable By Jar e uary l the Italians had captarel 1Z( e square miles.
 After a winter of artillery duel e Italy resumed her offensive on u h Carso front in the campaign towar e Trieste. Within a month the Aus l. trian lines were broken from Castae = navizza to the sea. Italy inflicte il losses of 5000 on the Austrians an IS lost heavily herself Austria hurrie .t - u