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_He is firmly established on the

- returned to our Hines.

- in‘a damaged condition.

_ ments have taken place south of

_tiver,

the Lipa, near the village of

ae: ‘of Grand Duke Nicholas are atilt|’
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on Ruslan’ troops, pushing forward
— front the 'séuth,: dept: and.’ ‘north;

THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, J ULY. 29, 1916

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London: The Entene Allied
offensive swings between the
eastern and western fronts with
clocklike regularity, almost com-
Dletely preventing the ‘central
powers from moving troops from
front to front. Attention is now
centered on the Russian front.
General Sakhoroff, in two days’
fighting, has driven the Teutons
hack on the Styr-Lipa front, cap-
turing 300 officers, 12,000 men,
and a quantity of war material.

right bank of the Lipa. Kuro-
patkin is still pressing forward
against the forces of Hindenburg
on the Dvina front.

When the Allied armies at Sal-
oniki strike, Roumania is expect-
to join them.

Paris: On the right bank of
the Meuse we made some prog-
ress in the region of Fleury and
captured 70 prisoners.

All Freneh aeroplanes which
took part in the bombardment of
the Metz-Sablons station have

London: The day passed with.
out occurrence of any important
incident on the British front, -

Yesterday our airman destroy-

‘ed six hostile aeroplanes, and
forced several others to descend
One af
our machires was brought down
by gunfire and two others are
missing.

The British and French, have
captured since July 1, 29,000
prisoners, 140 guns, hudreds of
machine #uns,. and large quan-
tities of munitions.

The British forces operating in
‘German East Africa have occu-
pied Mureheya and Ameni and
have captured the whole of the
Usambara railway.

Petrograd :. Fierce engage-

Riga, and Russian troops have
penetrated, the German first line
at several points.

In the Caucasus the forces of
Grand Duke Nicholas occupied
Ardasa, about 18 miles northwest
of Gumuskhaneh, on the Chit
On the left wing of the
Riga positions there have been
several fierce engagements with
the enemy. On the left bank of

Sewenitchi, east of Gorosova, our
patrols succesgfully raided a Ger-|;
‘Man position, capturing one offi-
cer and 42 men.

" TUES, JULY 25 :

. “Lotion: © “The Getmans: ‘have
‘been driven’ ‘back twelve miles’ on
- the 30-mile front from Riga to
Uxkull, the greatest advance be-|
‘ing’ made along the: coastline.
Active operations are now halted,
‘allowing, the Russians to consolid-
‘ate the ground gained, and also
permitting reinforcements from
“other fronts to be rushed to ‘aid
the Germans.

Pozieres.

yesterday:

quietly there.

THE MINER WAR BULLETINS
guards are within fifteen miles

of the town, which is 80 miles
southwest of Erzerum.

By a brilliant charge
of the Australians the British have
captured the greater portion of
We have also gained
ground near the highwood in the
direction of Guillemont,
from continuous heavy shelling
by both sides during the night,.
comparative calm follawed the
severe fighting of yesterday.

Six German torpedo-:
boat destroyers 4 were engaged in
a running fight with the British
light forces off Schouwen Bank
: The German vessels
were repeatedly hit, but-succeed-
in reaching the Belgian coast.

Bad weather prevailed
along the Somme front in north-
ern France and the night passed
In a raid near
Vailly, north of the ‘Aisne, Ger-
man trenches were penetrated
and prisoners taken.

On the Verdun front, east of
the Meuse, local engagements
occurred, in which the Freneh
took 80 prisoners, makin a total
of 800 taken in this region during
the last few days.

London:

London:

Paris:

Paris: A French aviator flew

over Berlin, dropping proclama-
tions telling how easy a bom
bardment would be.
trouble caused him to descend,
and he was taken prisonet,
sixty miles from the Russian lines,
marking the most remarkable
flight of the war,

| WED., JULY 26° y

Spark-plug

London: The’ British have

made further gains at. Pozieres,
The Germans brought up rein-
forcements of infantry and guns,
but the resulting _counter-attacks
were everywhere repulsed.
no place did the enemy succeed |
in reaching the British trenches.

At

(Later): The village of Pozi-

eres is now completely in the
‘| hands of the British.

Paris: On the south bank of

the Somme yesterday the French
troops eaptured blockhouses south
of Estrees and drove the ‘enemy
out of trenches north of Verman-
dovillers,

Between the Qise and the

Aisne several German patrols
were dispersed near Traty-ie-Val

On the left bank of the Meuse,

in the Verdun region, there. was
grenade fighting at Hill 804. On
the right:bank a violent cannon-
ading was in progress at Fleury
and La Laufee.

“A German attack on the French

‘position at Bachswiller, in Alsace,
failed.

- Sib. -Lieut. Nungesher, of the|-
French’ aviation corps. brought
down his: tenth aeroplune yester-
day.

Berlin: - ‘Russian troops suc.

ceeded in penetrating the Germah
front ona smati part of the lie
defended by the. troops under the|-
cormmand ‘of: General von Lin-

‘A Russian. army - is moving’ singen,. oat

, down ‘through Jablonitza. Pags,
-on the Hungarian. ‘frontier... A
serious. invasion of the ‘Hungarian
{plains is expected, ‘The residents
“are terror-stricken. | ,

In Turkish Armenia the forces

‘eteagily’ ‘advanding on. Erzingat,

Under: threat of a strong Rus-

sian advance south of Tataraw, |
we withdrew. our troops which
were. fighting. on the Magura to-
‘wards the main ridge’ of the
Carpathians, va

: Petrograd: “he Ruin ad-

varice Upon. tha “Turkish fortified
town “of: Erzingati ‘ig progressing
ateadily,. . Some Russian detach:
. ments: have:  aleedidy reached

‘tee

Apart

sitions about ten. miles saat of
the town,

retiring in disorder. _

sacks on the Hungarian plains
are causing much alarm, Peace

a consequence.
Rome: The eapture of Monte

Austrians is now confirmed, and
good progress by the Itahans on
the rest of the front is reported.

Norfolk, Va.:
' Allied. warships is patrolling the
Virginia ‘capes, waiting for the:

sister ship, the Bremen, which
is expected daily,

| THURS., JULY 27 )

London: . The capture of Pozi-
eres, in the Somme river region,
after terrific fighting, is reported
by Field-Marshal Haig.- This po-

sition ‘gives the British domina-
tion of the highest point over.
looking the plateau on which the
German lines extend to the east-
ward. West* of the village our
territorial troops, in a further
advance, captured two strong
trenches, taking a number of
prisoners, |
The German. headquarters staff,
in an official statement, admits
defeat at Pozieres and the cap-
‘ture of the town: by the Dritish,
Elsewhere onthe battle front
there i is-no change,

Paris: The night was calm on
the French front: 4n. the: Somme
region, In the’ capture: of a
group of houses‘south of Estrees,
the French took 157 German pris-
‘oners -and captured three new
guns,

- Petrograd: The Turkish: for t-
ress of Erzingan, in central Ar-
menia, has-heen:captured by the
Russian. forces, who have been
congratulated by the Car,
In southern Volhynia the Rus-
siang are continuing ‘their sensa-
tional drive, Great losses‘ are
being inflicted on the: retreating
forces‘ of the Teutons, General
Sakharoff capturing 4000 officers
andmen. sis.

The ‘Russians | ‘are attacking the
Austrians ten. miles noith: of
‘Brody, Galicia,

attacked ‘tha Russian. lines near,
Kemmern, twenty miles west of
Riga, and: nearly succeeded in
henetrating the first line.

forces, —

sian advance.

ing the Hungarian frontier, ‘The

stricken,

“London: |
‘been executed by.
at Ghent, - charged.
treason’’,

he cremane
With oy

wed

work, in Germany. :
» London: -’

rationing the: éiyili
in’ the areas oedupiéd

and ‘Austrian arm

A later despatch says that
Erzingan is being evacuated by
the Turkish forces, which are

Buda-Peath: The raiding: Cos-

advocates are becoming active as

Cimone by ‘the Italians from the|

' A squadron.of

ervision of a neutral cominisaton:
appointed by President Wilson, if
the central -powers will consent
not to remove native food sup-
plies. ~ \

_ Ottawa: ° Canadian battalions
now recruiting will be broken
up, the units being sent to the
front to replace casualties. -

| FRI., JULY 28 5

London: Throughout the night
our artillery has been active and
we continued to press the enemy
with hand to-band encounters at

Deutschland, which is still re-!
| maining at Baltimore, or her

4 ers,

Germang, under Hindenbarg, oe

They | .
were finally compelled to retreat | - ;
by. a conrentration of Russian, a

The Austriana admit the lose
of 100,000 prisoners. in: the, Rus- '

A strong Russian army is neat.

populace. of ‘Hitngary {s- Panie- ;

“Six vciviliana have

. The: ‘Germans: ‘have. renovob _
7000 women. and. 150: pupils, of|
the Turgot. [natitute. from’ Rou-|
balx, presumably for agricultural

“TH He Brita govern. | ;
ment: will: donsent to. a: ‘plan’ for a

various points on the Somme
front.’ The . Germans are using
large numbers of gas and tear
shells in the battle area, Else-
. Where on, the British front there
has been no incident of import-
ance in th last 48 hours, uo!

‘ Casualties among officers in the

killed, 2834 wounded and 491.
missing, Since the beginning of
the “war 34,000 British officers

ed and migsing.

Petrograd: The brilliant: teai
of General Sakharoff alotig. the
river Slonevka hag injected anéw
2lement of surprise into the con-
stantly-changing situation on the
Ruasian northwestern front, “In
the battle of ‘Tuesday 6250 Teu-|j
tons were taken prisoner, with

' Russian forces operating in -the

pursuit of the retreating Turks,
In the capture of the Turkish.
fortress of Erzingsn the Russiang
took a depot of war materiqls,

-Reme:
recapture the recently-won posi-
tions have been répulsed.

The Greek army has been de-
mobilized and the reservists: sent
‘home.

Stockholm: Almost every-day
British steamers lying at Russian
ports manage to get out of the
Baltic. and escape German eruig-
‘The ships generally croas
the Gulf of Bothnia and are
piloted around Sweden inside’ the
ter ritorial limit.

last three weeks have been: 1103}:

have been reported killed, wound-

five guns and 22 machine guns. |:

Caucasus are continuing their|

Austrian attempts to}

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