Show HOL GAINS ALONG LINE E australians HAVE ADVANTAGE IN DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH GERMANS caught between two forces adeane ing are compelled to sur render another wave of german resistance on russ an front london under a merciless concen of shell fire the australians held on to their gain gains sunday after their advance saturday night on a front of two miles the germans al ready had delivered three powerful counter attacks to retake the lost ground and all failed in one of the counterattacks the germans came forward holding up their hands behind them the british guns had placed curtains of shell fire through which it was impossible for them to retreat while the australians machine guns and rifles mowing them down made it hopeless to con dinue the charge it was death which ever way they moved death it if they stood still or laid down in the bullet swept space and they surrendered rather than continue their vain ef fort their last previous attack having been by the right flank the british re dewed the offensive by the left flank after a week of bombing and sapping here the task fell to the australians who added another victory to their brilliant record in the taking of po in grilling heat under a blaz ing sun they had been working in a continual shell fire digging their new trenches in the open beyond pozieres Po facing the german second line trench es on the left of the break the british had already made in their previous attacks since the loss of brody by the aus an arians and the successful operations of the russians against the germans which resulted in their gaining the tile whole of the line along the and the capture of several fortified vil lages considerably west of this river on the direct route to kovel the sit nation on the russian general bros brus elloff s front has remained virtually unaltered the russians by no means have lost of the initiative but another wave of most energetic german re si stance has set in and the newly or german army which Is corn com posed of all available reserves and fresh recruits has undertaken the task of changing its tactics from pas sive resistance to a most active counter offensive field marshal von hindenburg a personal direction ol 01 the operations in this field is quite ap parent but it is not thought possible by the russian observers that he can more than temporarily check the ad vance of the russian forces upon kovel |