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Show ALLIES WINNING ON ALLFRONTS Germans Made Desperate Attempts At-tempts to Hold Pozieres Turks Surprised By Russians. London, July 26, 10 p. m; The British secretary for war, David Lloyd-George, in a published statement state-ment tonight, shows the Importance the Gprmans attached to the retention reten-tion of Posieres' by quoting from a German divisional order issued on Contalmalsson on July II, as follows: "Furthermore, tho conversion of villages into strong points is of the greatest importance. Such villages are Pozieres, Contalmalsson and the two Bezantlne and Longueval." Secretary Sec-retary Lloyd-George points out that-with that-with the capture of Pozieres the last of these villages has fallen Into the allies' hands. He further points out that today's German claim of the repulse re-pulse of an attack on Trones wood must be a clerical error as Trones wood has been in British possession since July 24. The opinion of military critics In London is that no positions so strong as the British are now successfully attacking will be found between i-ozieres ana uapaume; otherwise, they argue, the Germans would not have risked bringing troops and guns from the Verdun sector to defend Pozieres Po-zieres and it Is inferred from indications indica-tions In the official dispatches that the British are already beginning to establish themselves on both sides of the road from Pozieres to- Bapaume. On the eastern front the Germans and Austrians appear to make no successful suc-cessful stand anywhere against tho victorious Russian forces. General Sakharoff's recent success has brought him within about twelve miles of Brody, which guards the approaches approach-es to Lemberg and places von Both-mer's Both-mer's army in danger. The unexpectedly swift fall of Erzingan leads to the supposition here that the Turks must have removed re-moved the guns from the defenses of this town to assist the armies in the field, not anticipating such a rapid Russian advance in such a difficult country. The Italian front attracts little public pub-lic attention but the Italians have recently re-cently made good progress in the Dolomites region. |