Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — ALLIED FORCES STILL ADVANCE [ARTICLE]

ALLIED FORCES STILL ADVANCE

i Continue to Win From the Teutons Along All the Fronts. I Gradually the forces of Field i Marshal Haig are hemming in the [town, of Lens, the center of the great coal deposits in the 8 department of Pas de Calais and from which prior to the war more than 5.v . tons of coal werg an-, nually exported. Successful raids carried but Sunday night: by the British gave them 41 . yards of trenches in the woods at the western outskirts of the city, while Monday's ‘operation brought them further progress along both banks of. the Souchez river on. a front about a miie and a half southwest of the town,The British troops are harasssing the German- at various pbints along the front held by them in Belgium and France with nightly raiding parties which have been successful in killing numerous Germans and taking others prisoner. The British and German airmen

con’inue to strive for mastery in France and Belgium. Sunday witnessed the destruction of * five German airplanes in battle’s in. the air and another by anti-aircraft guns while five others were sent to the earth out of control. • The. British, however, lost five machines during the operations. Mighty artillery duels between the French and Germans are still in progress on several sectors of the front between Soissons and Rheims. Apparently the Germans, after their experience of last week, when they suffered heavy casualties in attacks and gained only slight advantage, have ceased, for the moment, at least, their infantry operations; as the latest French official communication makes no mention of fresh thrusts by th? crown prince. The sadly battered city of Rheims continues to be a target for German shells. 1,200 of them having been dropped there during Monday. The fighting activity along the Russian front has again extended into the Carpatihans around Kirlibabe on the Bukowina frontier. In Galicia, between the Zlota Lipa and Narayuyka rivers and along the upper Stripa. the fighting between the Austrb-Germans and Russians is described by Berlin as “lively.” The operations in the AustroItalian theater have again lost their intensity. The artillery duels have died down to almost nothing, while the infantry encounters are merelv reconnaissances.