EXTENSIVE BOMB DROPPING.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2839, 2 August 1916, Page 5

EXTENSIVE BOMB DROPPING.

Following upon Ihe last advance sf the French and the British 011 tho Somme, have come the inevitable-- counter-attacks by the Gcrnianß, none of which' achieved anything more than a momentary success. The airmen, profiting by the fine summer weather, afp making the fullest use of their ascendancy ovor the German air squadrons, and have been doing eomo very destructive work. The Germans aro estimated to have put their maximum available man-powtr on tho Western front, and aro rushing up more guns' in an effort to balance the British superiority in numbers of men. The news'ironi tho Russian front, according to the official communiques, is good: Tho Russian advance on tho Stochod is maintained; unofficial dispatches indicato that the Germans aTe retreating on Kovel. The drive in Asia Minor is being maintained, iv satisfactory pro- ' gross is reported to-day. Tho "Daily ■ Telegraph's" correspondent in Egypt sends a dispatch disclosipg the march of a fairly substantial force of Turks—l2,ooo men—upon tho Suez Canal front. Tho enemy's Zeppelins, in considerable force, have raided tho English East Coast counties, dropping bombs indiscriminately, hut damaging nothing of any military t importance. .' _^