The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-16
By the Associated Press.

TLe fighting on the Somme- Disc battle front still continues of minor character compared with that of the early part of the week. when the Germans reinforced their line and stopped the eastward sweep of the allied forces.
 Nevertheless the British and French again have been able to gain ground on two important sectors the British short distance north west Of Rove, where they took the villages of Damery and Parvilfers, and the French on the southern wing of the battle front, where they have captured two farms in the process of clearing the hilly and wooded dis trict around Lassigny of the enemy,
 North of the Somme between AL bert and Arras, the Gemans are con- tinuing to fall back, and the British are keeping in close contact win them. Thus far the Germans have definitely given up the towns of Beaumont -Hamel,, Serre, Bucsuoy and Puisieux -au Mont, and at several points have crossed the Ancre river, with the British following closely on their trail
 No official explanation has yet been advanced of the retrograde movement of the Germans over this front, but it is not at all unlikely that the operations on the Somme front and the harrassing tactics the British recently have employed made inc enemy desirous of establishing himself on new ground eastward with the Ancre river a barrier be- tween him and hts foes. At any rate the Heburterne salient has virtually been obliterated by the retirement of the Germans and seemingly they now will be compelled to make read justment of their line between th2 Somme and Arras.
 In the week of fighting on the Pic ardy front 3e,244 prisoners have fal- len into the hands of the British fourth army, the French first army according to an official announce ment. of this number the British captured 21.S44.
 Unofficial reports, probably com piled since the official data was sent from the front give the number oi prisoners in the hands of the British fourth and the French first and third armies since August as 34,O00 and also that 67e captured guns thus far have been counted.
 The situation in Russia again is looming large. Soviet leaders hay ing fled from Moscow. the Bolsheu- Xxi capital. to Kronstadt and the Sov jet troops are now declared to have began the evacuation of Moscow
 American troops have began tc disembark at Vladivostok to aid the Czecho- Sloyak army in it's campaign in Siberia, an allieu lorCe lS Nh"S ing the enemy more than hundred miles south of Archangel on the rail- road; further allied troops have made a landing southwest of Archanse+ and are endeavoring 10 cut off the retreat of the Bolshevili, while Brit ish troops have arrived al Baku, ir the Caucausus on the Caspian Sea to assist the Armenians in defend ing this important seaport agains' inc Turk. to whom it was given bN the Brest- I.itovsk treaty in the at tempt made by the. Teutonic allie' to dismember Russia. Thus IL VII he seen that allied forces now arr operating jointly on three importan sections of Russian territory--on tho north. with a base in the White Sea in the east, with base in the Se' of Japan; and in the south in Trans Caucasia
 Probably realizing the seriousness of the situation as fl now affects tn' central powers with defeats on tn