FRESH SUCCESSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2815, 5 July 1916, Page 5

FRESH SUCCESSES

LATEST NEWS OF THE BIG OFFENSIVE GALLANT ATTACKS UNDER OVER 12,000 PRISONERS .'CAPTURED ,THE . RUSSIAN DRIVE FIERCE BATTLE IN THE STYR . REGION ' THE BATTLE OF VERDUN

Tho news from tho Western front to-day details fresh successes by 'tho Allies in their There lias been severo fighting in tho districts of La Boiselle and Thiepval.lrat tho general situation has not changed very material!)',* although 'tho odds are with -tho Allies?. The Germans, fully' awako by : this time -to the full moaning of tho Franco-Brit-ish blow.on the Somme, aro; concentrating an intense artillery fire on our linea, tut despite the!hail of high explosives and other death-dealing messengers from tho German guns, tho Allies' troops are unhesitatingly attacking the formidable' defences of the enemy. The true extent of these defences,is now known. Dug-outs, 30 feet and more below the ground, in -which,'during tho British bombardment, tho Germans hid with their machine-guns, have had to be bombed out, and, on occasions, undiscovered machino-guns made their presence felt a 9 their fire was turned upon the rear ranks of the advancing troops as they passed by" and onwards, The totai number of- unwounded prisoners who have been captured ty the British and the French is now well over 12,000—what "the German casualties in killed and wounded have been remains to be seen. 'They have been heavy, say the Teports. There has been sharp fighting at Verdun, the fortified woik at Damloup being taken and retaken. Tho latest news of the Russians diaoloses activity along the whole front from Riga to the Caucasus.- ■