Show RUSSIANS RETREAT I I ACROSS THE BORDER LOYAL TROOPS COMPELLED TO GIVE GROUND BEFORE STRONGER FORCES French Troops in the Aisne Region Have Turned in Vicious Counterattacks Counterattacks Counterattacks tacks Against the Army of the German Crown Prince Having retreated a distance of or approximately approximately ap ap- ap proximately miles from where Kerensky the iron man of Russia carried them in his personally conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted drive early In the time present month the Russian army on the cenI center cen cen- I tel ter cc of the line in east Galicia Is again on Russian soil on omi both sides of n and Is still being followed by bythe bythe bythe the forces of the Teutonic allies Likewise the lie armies to the north and south continue to fall full back before the time enemy Wherever the tIme faithful troops attempt to give battle hattle they are arc bar har- I by numerically stronger forces of th time the and compelled to give ground receiving no assistance from their recalcitrant former brothers in i arms whose main effort continues to tobe tobe be to get out of striking striling distance of the enemy Evidently the preparations for the blood and iron policy of the government government govern govern- ment against the troops shortly will be bo put into full force for Minister 1 of War Kerensky is on his way to the Russian Hussian headquarters there to confer with the military leaders lenders leaders lead lend ers to formulate plans to stay the retreat retreat retreat re re- re- re treat and compel the troops to stand and face the foe as the time Russians Inthe in inthe the lie southern Carpathian region are nrc doing Down along this latter front the Russians aided by the continue to force the lie Teutonic allies to cede ground especially in the upper valley French troops in the Aisne region have turn turned d in vicious counter attacks s against the tile army of the German crown prince put down an offensive it had started between and La Bovelle and made good gains against It all along the tue line Several attacks by the lie Germans in the lie Verdun sector were repulsed The progress in Flanders Flanders Flan Finn ders for more than a week continues unabated In th the air th the thC machines of Great Britain and Germany are carr carrying ing out ont outmaneuvers outmaneuvers maneuvers never before seen As an Indication of the Intensity of these aerial combats thirty German airplanes air air- planes were accounted for in the time latest fighting in addition to two observation balloons The British war office admits admits admits ad ad- mits that thirteen of the ro royal al air squadron failed to return to their bases The German war office asserts however that thirty-five thirty British planes were shot down |