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Show I Dash to Lem- I berg Halted B I Teutons Dlscont nue Advance In That BBJ Direction While Checking Enemy' BBJ j Offensive In Region of Kolomea, BBf Which Appeared to Be Dangerous BBJ ( London, Juno S. Tlio big lmttlo In BBm Gallcla has not Jet reached n dccl- BBJ' slou. Tlio Austro Germans having BBl ' crossed tlio Dniester south of Loin- BBJ berg, havo assumed tlio offonslvo BBj further to tlio south, ond nccordlng BBH to tlio Austrian olllelnl report, luivu BBf Euccccded In pushing tlio Huss'ans BBM' hack between Kolomea and Knlusz In BBc tnstcrn Gnllcln. BBb This operation vrns necessary ho- BBl Xoro tho Teutonic allies continued their ndvnnco toward Lcmbcrg, aif' tho Russian attacks In tho reg on of Kolomea woro beginning to look dangerous, after tho Russians had, ns reported from Petrogrnd lost week, Inflicted a rather Bovcro defeat on tho Austrlans in this district. Ilrltlsh and Russian military opinion opin-ion Is that tlio Austro Germans, niter nit-er their big effort which regained for them the greater part ot Qallcla. havo about exhausted themselves and tho view Is expressed that thoy will soon have to secure and fortify a Una on which they can wlthstandtho Russian Rus-sian (ounteroffenstvo, which has already al-ready mado Itself felt on tho lower San. French Gaining Ground If tho Russian positions woro really real-ly dangorous, those authorities say, tlio allies would long ago havo taken the offensive In tho west to relieve tlio pressure on tli eastern trout. It Is tru that tho French havo been attacking at-tacking at a number ot points between be-tween Rhclins and tlio district north at Arras and havo In soma cases ucon successful In gaining ground, but the Ilrltlsh nro remaln'ng quiet, nnd It can hardly bo said that n general gen-eral offensive In tho west lins begun. Tho French nro considered to havo boon vory successful In what thoy havo undertaken. North of Arras thoy havo gained additional ground nnd north of tho Alsno havo repulsed four German counterattacks and oxtended tho'r provlous gains. On tho other hand tho Gormnns clnlm to havo repulsed somo of tho French nttacks north of Arras nnd to tho north of Sotssons, tho st.'iio ot the Germans last Important victory In tho west. Tho Ilrltlsh roport all nlet on their front, but to tho Zeppelin brought down yesterday by Sublloutenant Wnrneford for which ho today was awnnlcil tlio Vlctorln cross, they claim to havo added two German aeroplanes ns nn offset to tho destruction, destruc-tion, reported by tho Gormans of an allied aoroplauo near Doual. ( Italian Cavalry Cross Isonzo Tho operations on tho Itnlo Austrian Austri-an frontiers nro pretty well screened by tho censorship. Thero nre lndl-cnt'onB lndl-cnt'onB however, that a big battlo Is I Imminent, If It has not already begun, be-gun, along tho Isonzo rivor, whero tho Italians apparently havo decide! to launch tholr principal attack. T1m Itallau cavalry have all crossed the river nt one po'nt and It was report-. report-. 0 ft..-. i C n ' ' . l'l ' r, Is no confirmation, that thoy have plorced tho Austrlal lino. 4 Thero nlso ore reports that tho allies al-lies havo again taken tho offenslvo on tho Gnlllpoll peninsula and havo decisively defeated tho Turks, 'ffut this likewise lacks confirmation. Gorman submarines continue their activities. Among their latest victims vic-tims wore three Norwegian vessels, tho steamers Trudvang nnd. (Jtter-llnd, (Jtter-llnd, with Iron oro and lumber,, respectively, re-spectively, for British ports, and tho bark Quporb, with grain from South America for Queonstown, Others sunk woro tho Belgian steamer Menaplcr, with tho loos of seventeen lives nnd tho trawler Pent-land. Pent-land. Roumanla, according to a German report, has declined tho first offer of thn cntento nlllcs to Join thorn and Bulgaria in agreement with Roumanla, Rouma-nla, Is Bald to he willing to tnko nny action that country decides upon. |