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Show uu BERLIN REPORTS WAR SITUATION Germans Making Good Progress Pro-gress on the Vistula Capture Cap-ture 3,850 Russian Soldiers. CATHEDRAL BURNS French Positions Stormed Along 1500-Yard Front Violent Counter Attacks Repulsed. Berlin, July 7, by wireless to Say-villc. Say-villc. The German army headquarters headquar-ters today give out the following statement: "On the west bank of the upper Vls-tuln Vls-tuln we made good progress. To the east of tho Vistula thore was no important im-portant change. ' "During pursuit of the Russians to the Zlota Lipa river from July 3 to July 5 the Germans captured 3S50 men. The number of prisoners made south of Blalc Bloto has been increased in-creased to seven officers and about 800 men. "In Poland south or the--Vistula the Germans stormed helghf!5 to the east of Dolowatka and smith of Borzymow. The Russian losses were very consld-erable. consld-erable. Ten machine gu::s, one revolver re-volver gun antira quantity of rifles wero taken. "More to to northward near, the Vistula a Russian charge was repulsed. re-pulsed. "In the western theatre: British Troops Driven Back. "North of Ypres (Belgium) British troops yesterday invaded one German trench but were ejected in the evening. eve-ning. "West of Souchez two enemy night attacks were repulsed. Arras Cathedral Burning. "While we vere shelling enemy troops gathered at Arias, the town took fire and the cathedral is burning. "Between the Moselle and Meuse rh ers there wns active fighting. Tli r-re was also some active fighting southwest of Les Eparges where the enemy continued his efforts to win back the positions recently lost. At the first attack he got into a part of the German line of defense. A counter coun-ter attack won back all the trenches with the exception of one piece of 100 ards. The enemy abandoned one machine ma-chine gun. "Two more charges made by the en-cmv en-cmv as well as an attack on Tranche failed completely. x Germans Storm French Positions. "Half way between Ailly and Apre-mont, Apre-mont, the Germans stormed the enemy en-emy positions along a front of 1500 yards and captured 300 French. Near Croix des Carnes, liKthe forest of Le Prctre, the enemy madean exceptional exception-al violent counter attack which was repulsed. "On Sud el, in the Vosges, an enemy trench was stormed and rendered use-le?r use-le?r for defense purposes. In the Champagne, southwest of Suippes, a German aviator shelled successfully suc-cessfully an enemy training camp." The cathedral at Arras, the capital of the Fronch department of Pas de Calais was built in 1755-1S33. When the war broke out the cathedral contained con-tained some good paintings, including a Descent From the Cross and An Entombment En-tombment attributed respectively to Rubens and Van Dyck. In the south trensect was a Supplicating Inspiration Inspira-tion From Heaven by Van Tholden. |