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Show I JS1 nil ill Uillbll I nt General Korniloff's Men Sweep Onward in a Mighty Offensive in Galicia ; More Prison- ! ers and Guns Taken irv i the Great Drive of the Muscovites. GERMANS PIERCE THE BRITISH LINE Advance of the Kaiser Reaches Right Bank of the Yser Near the Sea; Attack Is Preceded Preced-ed by Big Gun Duel; Sounds Heard in London. Lon-don. Having broken the strong Austro-Ger-man line in the vicinity of Halicz, the Russians are pushing forward from Halicz toward Lembeig, the capital of Galicia, and from Stanislau south of . Halicz westward toward the line of the Dniester. After the capture of Halicz. on the front from Halicz to Zolotvln. about thirty miles to the south, General Korniloff Kor-niloff forcod the Austro-Germans to continue con-tinue their retreat. In their advaiuo from Halicz the Russians forced the fleeing enemy across the Lomnica and occupied two towns on the western bank of the river. The next natural barrier is the river Stoka, about six miles west of the Lomnica. South and west of Stanislau the Russians Rus-sians have reached the Poslorcz-Lesiu v-ka-Karmacz line, the central point of which, Lesluvka,t is four miles west of the River Bystrltza. This line Is about seven miles east of Kaiusz, the neurcst large town west of Stanislau and which Is situated on the Stoka river. The extension ex-tension of the. Russian fighting lino (o Zolotvjn brings the bat tie ground Into the foothills of the Carpathians. More Prisoners Taken. On Tuesday t ho Russians ca ptured 2000 more prisoners and thirty guns, bringing their total captured from July 8 to 10 to more than 1(1, 00 n oflicers and men and eighty guns. A large amount of I machine guns and war material also was j taken. Berlin gives no details of Tuts- day's fighting in Gal lea, merely f?a ying: "Movements south of the Dniester have been executed until now n s pUi nncd." On the Belgian coast, ast of Dunkirk , the British a nd Germa ns a i e Ugh ling again along the Yser, tho scene, of many hard fought battles. Hy destroying tho bridges across the Yser, between Nieuport Nieu-port und I he North sea. coast , the Ger-mans Ger-mans wero;ihle to advance and occupy the idolater section. Rerll n cla I rns ( ho capture of 1 l'ijo prisoners In t he pone-t pone-t ra tlon of tiuO yards along a f i'ont of 1-hiO yards. 1 Germans Hurled Hack. Further Inland, near lyombnertzyde, the Germans did not have hh much puree pur-ee s. After gaining some advanced positions, po-sitions, the British t hrew the at lackers bark to their own lines by a rounter-at-tack. Whether the German effort Is another an-other attempt to re-ach Dunkirk or Calais or Is nvieiy a stroke to offset a probable prob-able British offensive has not, developed. Tho la 1 est Brit Ish official Rta ternent do'-H not mention additional Infantry lighting on this sector and says (he German Ger-man artillery fire ha.s diminished. German Ger-man alteijfts southenst of Anas and In the vicinity of Dens on W ednesda y were without SUC'-eSH. Violent aitillery fighting marked We-inesday on the Alsnc and Champagne fronts in Kianrc and cast of the Mcukh in tho Verdun region. Northwest of Selo, on Ihe ( 'a rso, the Italians have o:cupied the Austrian lown of Dollna. BRITISH AIRMEN RAID FLEET AT CONSTANTINOPLE LONDON. July 11 An air raid on the enemy fleet off ' "onst a n ti i iople was nn-no nn-no jiici- I in a statement of the British war ofii' t"day. lionihs were dropped on the Turkish cniis'T Ywuz Sulton Sell Se-ll in, I ornicrly the Germs n cru is"r Goe lien. li-en. The war off I e o t f'on s( an ' i nople a I so atta'ked and a direct hit was attained by the British, who returned without cy sua Ii iex. Aeconiing to British telegraphic j. count of the bo:nlm idlng opetallorin at r "ons'a ot inopie, the attack was one of Wif rn".M suc'-ej-.s ul of the k md during the w.T The Bril'- h n v fa fr.ru confined them-s!w-s stvi'My to military objectives. Tho airjiatf-s weir over the rUv nearly a f half hour, carefully picking out their (Continued oa Pago Four.) !ran lit 1 TO CHECK mBSMIBi j (Continued from Pago One.) I marks and descending to an altitude of less than 300 yards for release of bombs. I The Goeben. which recently has been ! annoyiuely active against the Russians, i was the center of the attat k, with an 1 entirelv satisfactory result, and it is safe j to presume she will be out of action ' several months. j The war offh.-e, situated on a hill, also I was an easy target. j Amonjr the damaged enemy ships was a converted liner, which was used as the headquarters of the German staff. |