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Show TEUTONS BEGIN TO HIT BACK Are Attacking With Great Force While Allies Consolidate Consoli-date Their Positions. London, July 7, 12:10 a. m. Reu-ter's Reu-ter's correspondent at the press camp British army in France, sends the following fol-lowing dispatch under date of July 6: "The forward movement of the entente en-tente allies has been checked, but certainly not arrested. The allied armies are busily consolidating their gains and drawing a deep breath in readiness for the next mighty thrust In the meantime they are battering, bombing and antagonizing the enemy at night and during the day with most effective results. "The fighting is reminiscent of the Verdun battle, with the important distinction dis-tinction that the position is reversed and that the enemy has no such line upon line of fortified positions to retreat re-treat upon in the face of our smashing blows, as tho French havo had defending de-fending their great fortress. At any moment the weakest link in the chain may snap and the broken ends fly apart "The enemy is straining every nerve, but is being attacked as never before. From the coast to the trenches trench-es of northern France onflowing streams of khaki are pouring in a literal lit-eral flood and I am unable to resist tho contagious confidence of our army corps which says: 'Now that it is possible pos-sible to write with some fullness the story of Saturday's attack, one almost shrinks from recording it, so terrible was tho toll taken from the enemy.' "Many of our regiments suffered heavily as they advauced, almost without with-out cover,- in the face of a murderous enemy fire, the machine guns in particular par-ticular wreaking awful havoc. We must face the truth bravely of the heavy price we must pay and the nation na-tion must bravo itself to the inexorable inexor-able penally." Italians Forcing Enemy Back. Rome, July 6. Via London, 5:50 p. m. The Italian offensivo campaign is making further progress, compelling the Austrians to withdraw in some sectors. These operations are described de-scribed in today's communication from tho war office: "Botween Lagarlna and Sugana valleys val-leys our offensive continued yesterday," yester-day," says the communication, "in the ( Adige valley and in tho upper Astico , basin our pressure compelled the ene. j my to withdraw, uncovering new bat- , tcries on commanding positions previously pre-viously prepared by him." |