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Show TORRENTIAL RUNS " HAMPER0FFENS1VE FURIOUS DOWNPOUR PREVENTS ACTION ALONG THE FRONT IN FRANCE. Russian Armies Are Again Attacking Along Whole Length of Their Front, Having Pierced German Lines In Two Places. London. Official dispatches record little change in the situation on the British front. They show that the Germans have brought up strong reinforcements rein-forcements from other parts of their line and are stubbornly contesting every yard of the British advance. Torrential rains on July 4, however, hampered the offensive operations and the British action was confined mostly to consolidating the ground already won. The French have captured two more villages and are on good roads to Peronne. But there is yet no decrease de-crease in the violence of the German attacks In the Verdun region. Dispatches from German war correspondents cor-respondents indicate the realization that the central powers are losing the initiative, which their favorable positions posi-tions on the interior lines enabled them to hold throughout the long course of the war. Moreover, in commenting com-menting on the enormous resources in munitions and war material the entente allies have been able to pile up through the wearying months of preparation, they equally recognize that a profound change has occurred in the relations of the belligerents. Sin ultaneously with the opening of the Anglo-French offensive, the Russian Rus-sian armies are again attacking on the whole length of their front. An entirely en-tirely new offensive has been opened against Prince Leopold's Bavarian forces in the region of Baranovichi, where the Russians have pierced the German lines at two places; while the Italians are maintaining strong pressure pres-sure along their entire front. The British newspapers consider that these events prove that the moment mo-ment of the "great squeeze" has at last arrived and not since the war began be-gan have hopes ran so high. Nevertheless, Never-theless, almost every British correspondent corre-spondent on the western front warns against being ever sanguine, and daily reiterates that the progress must necessarily nec-essarily be slow and methodical. Up to July 4, the Anglo-French captures cap-tures in the battle of the Somme totaled to-taled more than 14,000 prisoners, twelve heavy guns and twenty-eight field guns. This booty represents for the man in the street a very satisfactory satisfac-tory result of a little over three days' fighting. Many Refugees Reach San Diego. San Diego, Cal. Bearing 539 refugees, refu-gees, the naavl transport Buffalo arrived ar-rived here July 4 from Guaymas and Mabatlan, Mexico. Among the refugees refu-gees were forty British subjects and a small number of other nationalities. Marines Fight With Revolutionists. Washington. Two encounters near Santiago, Santo Domingo, July 1, between be-tween American marines and revolutionist revolu-tionist bands, in which one marine was killed and one seriously wounded, ias been reported. |