STUBBORN FIGHT FOR NEW GROUND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 9

STUBBORN FIGHT FOR NEW GROUND

BRITISH IN LINE FOR NEXT MOVE THE RUSSIAN MARCH ■ ENEMY'S LEMBERG FRONT IN DANGER THE SUBMARINE'HUNT - : ' .... The news from the great war theatres to-day .discloses no major developments. The British troops have fought a stubborn fight for the • possession of a German trench north. of Pozieres. The position was captured, lost, and partly retaken again. " The British frcSnt line is now "based on the line set out to be reached in the-generalscheme of'the offensive. In the meantime the Germans, who are evidently in a • condition of ~ , "neryes," are hurriedly reorganising their broken units, and incidental-' . ly massing great forces for a supremo effort of some kind. Elsewhere on the Allied'front there have been lively local actions. The Russian operations for the forcing of two important river lines continue, to the dis-.. advance of the Austro-Germans. General, Sakharoff's brilliant generalship has compromised the safety of/the enemy's, armies on the Lemberg ' line. . -The, Russian pursuit in the Caucasus'continues, and a large haul •' of booty is' repbrted.' The Italian advance lines in the Trentino have encountered the enemy in a strong defensive \ position.. Fighting' continues.-. :"