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Show GERMAN FORCES IAKEJFFENSIVE OBJECT OF MOVEMENT IS THE CAPTURE OF POSITIONS HELD BY THE ALLIES IN FRANCE. Russians Are Engaged in Bitter Struggle Strug-gle With Germans and Austrians in Poland and East Prussia. At various points on the battle front in Flanders and France, the Germans again have started offensive movements move-ments with the object of capturing positions po-sitions held by the allies or penetrating penetrat-ing their lines. Paris asserts that in most of these attempts the Germans have been held and that to the north of Chalons, as in the Vosges, neat Burnhaupt le Bas, progress has been made by the French forces. Of the fighting in the other zone9 little is known except that the Russians Rus-sians are continuing their operations in East Prussia, that the Germans and Austrians are in combat with the Russsians at a different point in Poland, Po-land, and that the struggle between the Teuton allies and the Russians for supremacy in the Carpathian passes is still going on. Austria claims the Teutons have been successful in the middle section of the latter front. Paris declares that a German sub marine northeast of the Havre light ship made an attempt to sink the British battleship Asturias. A new agency dispatch says 20,000 Italians are Ijeing concentrated at Bari, on the Adriatic, for the occupation occupa-tion of Durazzo Albania. A report from London asserts that Italian reservists re-servists in England have been ordered or-dered to be ready to respond to a call to the colors of their country. Bombs have been dropped by French airmen on the famous Horn-:berg Horn-:berg castle in Alsace, . where German staff officers were residing. The building was burned. A Berlin newspaper statistician reports re-ports that as a result of Germany's regulation of bread and flour, less than 4,0.00,000 tons of rye and wheat will tie required in the country to the middle of August, while from lasi year's harvest at the beginning of the war there were 13,000.000 tons of these grains, not including that left over from the 1913 harvest. |