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Show GERMANS CLOSELY PRESSEDBY ROSS ONCOMING SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR TAKE SEVERAL TOWNS AFTER FURIOUS FIGHTING. French and British Simultaneously Attack Germans and Drive Invaders In-vaders From Salient Which Jutted Into New Line. London. The Rusm.uis have cap-lured cap-lured two more Volhye-.an towns in their sweep on Kovel and are only thirty-five miles 'roin Lhe key railroad points of the southern Ausri-D-Oennan front. The Austrians and Hermans, established cn a new line following their enforced withdrawal lrcm l:.e strong Yolhynia.'i salient they had held for months, are battling desperately desper-ately to stem the .Muscovite tide, but all indications point to a definite and imminent menace to Kovel. Petrograd officially reports the occupation oc-cupation of Dolzyca and Gruziatyn, while unofficial reports are to the effect ef-fect that the entire Volhynian triangle trian-gle of Kolki, Rafalowka and Mane-witchi Mane-witchi is under Russian control. General Gen-eral Kaledine's advance already has passed the half-way mark between the Styr and the Stockhod, it is stated. The French and British on Saturday Satur-day attacked simultaneously and wiped out, within thirty-live minutes, a strong German salient which had jutted dangerously into their new line north of Somme. By their concerted attack they have carried their front to and beyond the village of Hardecourt on the Ba-paume Ba-paume highroad, three and a half miles southeast of Combles, an important im-portant German provisioning center. They have straightened out their front until now they hold a line which curves but slightly frum Montaubon to Curlu and Buscourt, precluding flanking attacks by the Germans on what has been the northern flank of the Buscourt salient. |