Show COLONIES HOLD GAINS ALONG INE australians HAVE ADVANTAGE IN DESPERATE ENCOUNTER wath GERMANS caught between two forces advance inn ing are compelled to sur render another wave of german resistance on russian front london under a merciless concentration of shell fire the australians held on to their galna gaino sunday after their advance saturday night on a front of two miles the germans already atre alre re ady had delivered three powerful counter attacks to retake the lost ground and all failed in one of the counter attacks the germans camo came forward holding up their hands Behind them the british guns had placed curtains of shell fire through which it was impossible tor for them to retreat while tho australians machine guns and rifles mowing them down made it hopeless to continue the charge it was death whichever way they moved death 1 if f they stood still or laid down in the bullet swept space and they surrendered rather than continue their vain effort their last previous attack having been by tho the right flank the british renewed the offensive by the le left ft hank flank after a week of bombing and sapping here the task fell to the australians who added another victory to their he brilliant record in the taking of ito io cleres in grilling heat under a blazing sun they had been working in a continual shell fire digging their new trenches in the open beyond pozieres Po facing the german second line trenches on the left of the break the british had already fiade in their previous p attacks since the loss of 0 brody by the AUS and tile the successful operations of the russians against the germans which resulted in their gaining tho the whole of tho the line along the and the capture of several fortified vil 1 ages considerably west of this river on the direct route to kovel the sit alt bation on the russian general brus al sll offs lofts front has remained virtually unaltered the russians ly y no means have lost control of 0 the initiative but another wave of most energetic german rf resistance si has set in and the newly organized german army which la Is composed of all available reserves and fresh recruits has undertaken the task of changing its tactics from passive resistance to a most moat active counteroffensive counter offensive field marshall marshal von personal direction of the operations in this field la Is quite apparent but it Is not thought possible by the russian observers that ho he can more than temporarily check the advance of the russian forces upon kovel |