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Show Increased Air Activity Forecasts Another Great Battle of Entente Forces I! BRITISH LINES CONTINUE -; I TO mM0ll LLNS I Canadian Troops Push Forward Along 1009-jard I Front Into Western Environs of Mining Center I Russian Situation Continues Complex. I CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Aug. Jl. 7, by Canadian Press Limited. The Canadian outposts around j: Lens have established a new line in a group of houses which i is within a few yards of the enemy front line at that point. The Lens-Bethune road is now safely within our lines almost up to the city of Lens. 9 L BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND ll9 BELGIUM, Aug. 7 (By the Associated JB Press). The British lines continue to mm ! ) tighten about the French city of Lens, na ! ' north of Arras. Canadian troops, who JH on Saturday night pushed their posi- jH t tions forward approximately 200 yards ! along a front of 1000 yards into the western environs of the city, late yes- M I terday added a 600-yard front of a H i similar depth to their defenses south fjH and west of the outskirts of that min- djfl i ing center. ;jjm ! " The Germans have been showing i -Signs of decided uneasiness in tho jfl , Lens sector for several days, as has 19 been evidenced by their practice of SSH throwing a curtain of Are on the Brit- jlH Js ish trenches each morning at dawn, 'jfl y Vimy and Farbus, towns behind the -3H . British lines south of Lens., also have JH been shelled dally by enemy batteries. The rest of tho British front has loH ; continued in a state of comparative j calm so far as infantry actions have 9 I been concerned. lM Russ Situation Complex H 1 The Russian front situation con- ijfl i tinues complex, with Russian troops if j offering spirited resistance and driv- ipJ9 ing back the Austro-German , forces in SS ; some sectors and weakly yielding in Ten miles from Chotin, just beyond If the extreme southeasterly corner of Galicia, the Teutonic armies have , been forced back, according to advices ;3? from Kishinev today. Petrograd also f j . ofTicially reports the driving back of I, enemy advance guards.'south of Grij- .jiJ ; In Bukowina and on the River Bys- tritza, on the other hand, the Rus- fim sians have been forced to yield more ItV : ground, in one case because of the J voluntary retirement of two regi- ! ments. : Further south, in Rumania, a fur-ther fur-ther menace to the entente lines be-came be-came apparent today in the announce- ffljf ment of the opening of a Teutonic of- ; fensivo in the FokshanI region. Petro- 3,iM'' Stud concedes a retirement hero and '-pi: ; Berlin announces the storming of Rus- 'rfTS s'an P05'0113 north of Fokshani, with -Mk the taking o'f 1300 prisoners and thir- r teen guns. iSjgi ' In Flanders the infantry has contin- U&S: ued inactive, but the total silence of iisljj:; the British ofTiclal report on condi- ibe5 tions there, similar to that preserved feJSit while the great bombardment which ' preceded tho initial attack was im- OTSy pending, coupled with the reports of i greatly Increased air activity, seems Ojj indicative of a probable early renewal 9; v of the entente offensive effort. |