The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-12
BRITisH WAR OFFICE REPORTS
CAPTURE OF 1900 GERMAN
PRISONERS.
AM,ENS FRONT IS ACTIVE
Italians StiIi Making Progress Against
Austrians and Mention Taking
400 Enemy Troops-Finiand
May Enter War.

(Nar Review Tor July ~
The British front east OF Amiens
on each side of the Avre and along
the Somme river, seems TO be the
storm center Of the battle front In
France Here the Australians, assist
I'd by American detaehments. surred
mans out Of the village Of Hamel and
the vaire and Hamei woods. to the
south. at the same time launching n
secondary attack on the German posi-
tions north OF the S0mine. Since that
time the lines before Amiens have been
very active.
The Germans have been repulsed In
m attempt to retake the village Of
Hamel and the wooded positions of
the Australians farther south. The
British official report says that the
enemy was stopped easily, but the
Germans claim TO have checked the
British forces east Of Hamel and to
have thrown them back To their orig
inai lines ut viilers. Bretonneaux.
The number of prisoners captured
In Thursdays operations an the Somme
and In the subsequent German counter
attacks now exceeds 100. including
20 officers, according 10 an official
statement issued by the British war
office.
Calm on American Front.
With the exception Of aerial com
bats. the American front has been
calm.
'She German official statement tells
OF british attacks In the Ypres region,
adding that these assaults were re-
pulsed. Heavy artillery fire In thls~
neighborhood Is reported from Lon
don.
In the meantime the French have
been content to hold and consolidate
their new positions near Moulin Souss-
Touyent and Autreches, northwest OF
Scissors. where In two recent French
attacks. the Germans suffered severe
casualties and lost many prisoners.
The French war office says that dur
Ing the past few days there has been
heavy artillery firing In the neighbor.
hood Of Cutrey and Montgnbert which
IL ON the front southwest of Scissors,
WucNt tnf Nph kipuih w -
dashing attack last week.
italians Make Progress.
Italian forces operating near the |
mouth OF the rlaye have continued TO |
make progress In recent fighting and |
have taken more than 400 prisoners |
As well as battery nf cannon and |
many machine guns. In the mountain |
o t..lt hax AaI tsl
lines northeast of Monte Grappa and
have repulsed desperate counter at
tacks by the Austrians against posi-
tlens taken from the enemy In the Ital.
Ian drives week ago.
Stockholm reports that Finland Is
expected To declare war on the entente
allies. This Is probably the result |
Of German pressure incident to the
landing OF allied forces at Kola. on
the Thurman coast. II has been re-
ported that German ana Finnish troops |
are pushing northward toward the
port of koia 10 seize vast stores trans
ported there before Russla's collapse /
as factor In the war.
internal pissension.
Two runners of internal dlssension |
have become current. One Is to the |
effect that the death OF Mohammed ",
sultan of Turkey, WAS not due to ma
turai causes. hut the result of re. |
volt In that country. The ether comes |
from South Africa. where II Is re-
ported considerable unrest exists and |
where strong measures are being taken /
To cope with the situation.