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Show ALLIES CAPTURE TURKISHJTRENGHES OFFENSIVE ON GALIPOLI PENINSULA PENIN-SULA RESULTS IN GAINS ALONG FRONT OF THREE MILES. First Important Battle of Italian Campaign Cam-paign Raging for Possession of Tolomino Warships Busy Destroying Cables. London. The allies in their offensive offen-sive on the Galipoli peninsula on June 4 captured and held two lines of Turkish trenches along a front of nearly three miles. In Mesopotamia, the British forces have received from the Turks the surrender of Amara and taken more than 2,000 prisoners, i:i guns, a gunboat, barges and steamers. steam-ers. The pursuit of the Turks, who were dispersed into the marshes, continues. con-tinues. As in all trench warfare, which the .fighting on the Galipoli peninsula has assumed, the allies found their general gen-eral advance hindered through the inability in-ability of part of their force to penetrate pene-trate the wire entanglements which the artillery fire had not sufficiently destroyed. This left other sections of the force open to an enfilading fire and therefore part of the ground gained gain-ed had to be given up. Some also was lost when the Turks counterattacked. counter-attacked. Two battles are in progress in Ga-Iicla. Ga-Iicla. The Russians have made considerable con-siderable advance on the lower reaches reach-es of the San and have driven the Austro-Germans back to the Leng river; while to the southwest of Lem-berg Lem-berg the Austro-Germans are advancing, ad-vancing, although the Russians are contesting every inch of the roads to the Galician capital, which is the objective ob-jective of the Teutonic allies. The region north of Arras remains the interesting point on the western front. Here the French claim to have gained more ground, and according to iheir report, have repulsed very violent vio-lent German counterattacks. The Germans, on the other hand, assert that they have repulsed French attacks. at-tacks. The first important battle of the Italian campaign is raging for possession pos-session of Tolomino, where the Italians Ital-ians have met with the first serious opposition in their advance across the Austrian frontier. Italian warships have been busy destroying cables and lighthouses in the Adriatic and have again bombarded bombard-ed Monfaicone. There have also been some naval activity in the Baltic, Russian Rus-sian and German squadrons exchanging exchang-ing shot in the vicinity of the gulf of Riga. |