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Show BRITISH DEFEAT GERMANVETERANS BRANDENBURG CORPS DRIVEN FROM DELVILLE WOOD BY KITCHENER'S CLERKS. Galiclan "Town Fifty-eight Miles From Lemburg (Captured by Russians, While Austro-German Front West of Lutsk is Broken. London. tOne of the most furious battles of the war is being waged on the five-mile Pozieres-Longueval front, where the British and Germans have been gripped in a bloody struggle strug-gle for more than a week. The English troops are continuing to gain important ground against the most desperate resistance yet faced In any theatre. With their full weight of guns and with thousands of trained train-ed reinforcements, the Germans ara contesting every inch of the blood-soaked blood-soaked territory. The Germans have Ixeen completely driven from the Delville wood, a forest-fortress behind the German third line of defense. The British won the last inch of ground in this vital position posi-tion by a night attack. The wood was held by the famous Brandenburg corps, which has distinguished itself on every field from Warsaw to Verdun, Ver-dun, and it was against the trained veterans that "Kitchener's army of clerks" scored its victory. While the battle of the Somme is continuing with methodical success for the British forces, the Russians are able to announce another important import-ant victory in the capture of Brody. This Galician town, fifty-eight miles northeast of Lemberg, is a great railway rail-way junction, and it had been expected expect-ed the Austrians would retain it at all costs. The swiftness of this new Russian Rus-sian stroke was unexpected and may lead to the capture of Lemherg itself. it-self. The Russians, according to a report from Petrograd, also have broken the whole Austro-German front west of Lutsk. In this success they are reported to have captured two generals, 9,000 prisoners and forty-six guns. The fall of Brody is a serious threat to Lemberg and the rapid and successful advance of General Gen-eral Sakharoff's forces menace the whole Austro-German line of communications commun-ications from the north and the south. |