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Show Victorious After Tremendous Tre-mendous Assault on Eight Miles of Front From Delville Wood to the Somme; Take System Sys-tem of Trenches. BRITISH MAKE GREAT GAINS French Get New Foothold Foot-hold in Maurepas; Canadian Infantry Advance Ad-vance South of Ypres and Irish Troops Raid Loos Salient. (Special Cable by Arninsement with London Diilr Telegraph and loternatiooal New, service.) LOXDOX, July 30. After an artillery artil-lery bombardment so terrible that the advanced stations of the German third line were swept away, the British and French this morning smashed forward in a tremendous assault on a front of eight miles. From east of Delville wood to the Somme the blow was struck and whole systems of trenches, the work of months, were carried. Great losses were inflicted on the Germans, who in the afternoon rallied in a series of terrific counter-attacks, according to official dispatches from the scene of conflict. More than oOU prisoners were found in the shattered ditches and dugouts. The most pronounced gains were made by the British. Hen from the homeland' and the colonies, Irish and Indians, combined in the great thrust. These troops smashed forward beyond the Waterlot farm, Trones wood and the Maltzorn farm, formerly mere outposts out-posts of the British front, breaking well beyond the frontiers of the German Ger-man third line and establishing themselves them-selves in strong positions. French Victorious. On the British' right the French, attacking at-tacking simultaneously on a front from a height northeast of Hardccourt to the river, carried a German trench system sys-tem on a front for a distance, at one point, of throe and one-half miles, seized a foothold in Maurepas and conquered con-quered a wood and powerfully fortified quarry north of Hem. Street fighting is now going on in Maurepas, a village stronghold which has withstood until the preseut all assaults. as-saults. Today's' victory puts the Franco-British Franco-British allies in a position to strike a .powerful blow at Combles, the strong German point of support between Ba-paume Ba-paume and Peronne. It also marks a further advance of the wedge which is being driven into the kaiser's front between these two key positions of the 100-mile Xoyon salient. The Firitish are continuing their "nibbling" tactics on other sections of the front Stretching down to the sea. Canadian infantry took a "bite" out of the German trenches south of Yprcs during the night, whilo Irish troops carried out a successful raid in the Loos salient. Repulse Reported. Berlin reports tho repulse of tentative tenta-tive night attacks by the British in the Poziercs section, while General Haig, in a dispatch tonight, says there was no fighting thereabout during the day. The artillery fire of the British is steadily gaining in strength until it has drawn amazed comment from the Gorman Gor-man general staff. Jn the official statement state-ment given out at grand headquarters nt Berlin today the Germans describe the artillering as having advanced to the "highest violence." The opening of the present week finds the prospects of the entente allies perhaps per-haps brighter thau iu any previous period pe-riod of the war, according to the views held here. General Brussiloff's striking strik-ing victories present the German general staff with the imperative problem of how to reinforce the eastern front, since General von Linsingen, who was sent bv the Germans to aid the shattered Austrians. now has been completely thrust back from the Lutsk salient. But the same problem is presented on the western front, where, says an unof- (Continued ou Page Three.) ALLIES II TID LIE OF GERMANS (Continued from Page One.) ficial iVirre. ponlent, "The ceaseless battle bat-tle seems T?;idiiy to pain intensity. Doubtless the constant arrival of fresh German t ! oops and guns. ' 1 he adds, 1 "has everything to do with the result. The enemr shows an increasing tenden- i cv to counter-attack. ' ' I These counter attacks have failed to! stem the steady entente allied advance, j and altr.oush at the present moment the : fightin? on the riomme fs mainly devoted j to securing mastery of small strategic positions, which will be the keys to fur- , ther progress, there is yet no sisn of the Germans making any effective counter ! offensive. 1 The Russians' remarkable victories reveal re-veal a most interesting situation. The armv of the German freneral. Count von : Bothmer, holding the strip near the Lem- i berg-Tarnopol railroad, was a few weeks ao being outflanked on the south by-General by-General Letchltzky's successful advance, when the Dniester floods prevented Let- , chltzky's further progress. This enaoled von Bothmer to hold on to the threatened positions. General Sakha-roff Sakha-roff then devoted himself to enveloping von Bothmer's force on the north, with! what success is seen in his double victory vic-tory west of Lutsk and at Brody. Thus outflanked north and south, it is considered impossible that Count von Bothmer can longer delay extricating himself from his precarious position, even if he' now can do so without serious losses. The Russians at Brody are at present nearer lumbers than von Bolh-mer's Bolh-mer's forces, which are entrusted with Lemberg-'s defense, and although the country between Brody and Lemberg is i very difficult, it becomes a question I whether the evacuation of both Kovel and Lemberg will not soon become necessary. |