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Show ADVANCE Oil AlT FROM ALLIES ENTENTE ALLIES CONTINUE GAINS MARKING OPERATIONS IN THREE REGIONS. British Push Line Forward Nearly a Mile in French Sector, While Russians Continue to Drive Back Teutonic Allies. London. Hard fighting in the Somme region of France, in Galicii and in the Italian theatre, with further fur-ther gains for the entente allies in all three regions, marked the operations opera-tions of Saturday night and Sunday. Northwest of Pozieres, north of the Somme, the British made an advance of from 300 to 400 yards over a front nearly a mile wide against the Germans Ger-mans and also captured trenches on the plateau northwest of Bazentin-le-Petit, -while the French, southwest ot Maurepas, gained a further footholi on the slopes of hill 109. Between Thiepval and the Somme Saturday night, according to Berlin, assaults by the entente allies iiroke down with heavy casualties to the at. lackers. The fighting near Hem and Maurepas continued throughout the entire night and into Sunday, the men repeatedly coming to grips in hand-to-hand encounters. On the Bystritza sector and near Monasterzyska, however, Berlin says the Russians have been thrown back at several places by the counterattacks counterat-tacks of the Teutonic allies. The Duke of Aosta is keeping up his strong offensive against the Austrians Aus-trians in the Isonzo region, having driven them from fortified positionj in the Monfalcone and Gorizia sectors and taken prisoner more than 2,(K0 additional men. Constantinople reports that the Turks east of the Suez canal have turned against the British and compelled com-pelled them to retreat with heavy losses. The London war office, however, how-ever, disptues this statement, asserting assert-ing that the British cavalry is still In pursuit of the Turkish rear guard which Saturday evening had been driven hack to a position east of Birs-El-Manes. After a long period of inactivity the British along the Euphrates in Mesopotamia attempted an advance against the Turks, but retreated after two hours' fighting. Further advances ad-vances for the Turks against the Russians Rus-sians on the Persian front and in Turkish .Armenia also are claimed by Constantinople. |