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from unknown merchants,
or unknown goods; adver
,tising makes steady customers.
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LAST TO OMAHA
Old Sol Starts Out to Make a
Record in the Way of Turn
ing: on Heat, But Falls
Down in Attempt.
MANY STORIES OF CART'4 STORM
MAN-EATING SHARKS ritfim. inw
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captains Reaching Atiar-' Tr I milP
Ports Tell of Seeing SohooA N M 1 1 IIINX
of Monsters.
NUMBER OF THEM CAUGHT
EARLY MORNING A SIZZLER
People Rush to Lakes and
Swimming Pools in Effort
to Oool Off.
CROPS STILL UNINJURED
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It was another scorcher yesterday,
It was the nineteenth day of the con
tinuous hot spell and during the aft
ernoon the maximum temperature
reached 98 degrees above zero, one
ilcgrec below the highest of Satur
day. Along about 4 o'clock relief came
when clouds rolled up in the wind
and the wind brisked up, cooling off
the heated atmosphere. From that
time tlie temperature went down a
couple of degrees and hour and by
') o'clock last night it was pretty
comfortable.
The day started in to be a record
breaker for the season and at noon a
Icwprrature of 90 degrees was re
corded. The mercury continued to
climb until 3 o'clock, when 98 de
grees, the maximum of the day was
reached.
I'cople thought it was Jiot, and it
was, but it was not a marker to July
16, 1913, when the mercury climbed
t 104 degrees.
Yesterday, however , was bad
enough for the humidity was there
and it made you feel likt hunting
a cool place, none of which were
Great Day for Bathers.
Sunday was a great day for the
swimmers and they took advantage ot
the public bathing places to cool ott.
During the day 8,500 took dips at the
Municipal beach. Three hundred had
taken baths before 6 o'clock in the
morning and 800"before 8. At River
view there was a crowd of 2,500 bath-
ine in the oool during the day.
Downtown the streets reflected the
heat and made the sidewalks seem like
the entrance to a furnace, lhe as
phalt was soft.
The heat Saturday and Sunday was
so intense as to seriously damage sev
eral downtown rooms. On the roofs
covered with tar or creosote roofing
compositions the tinder softened up
tn aur.h an extent that where there
was an appreciable pitch to the roof
It tiowea aown ana imo uic uimi
pipes and in several instances ran
clear to the gutter for carrying off
the water. ' .
The heat had considerable effect on
the attendance nithe churches, it go
ing down as the temperature went up.
Men dispensed with their coats,
even in the congregations and church
choirs.
The parks were popular, many fam
ilies spending the day there sleepnig
on the grass and eating their dinners
and suppers under the trees.
Fine or Crops.
While the weather has been unusu
ally hot all over Nebraska, it is not
believed tnat crops nave Deen injurea.
The Northwestern railroad crop re
port that came in last night, covering
conditions up to last Saturday indi
cated that the agricultural situation
all through the state is most excel
lent, though there are a few localities
where rain would be beneficial to-he
corn, especially that planted late.
This crop report indicates that all
through the South Platte couty the
small harvest is finished and that the
yield will exceed that of most of the
former years. North of the Platte
harvest is well under way and will be
completed.
Some fears had been expressed that
the continued hot weather was prov
ing injurious to the corn. The report
of the Northwestern dispells all such
fears, it indicating that during the
last two weeks the weather has been
ideal for this cereal and that it has
made a most wonderful growth, and
that while late in being planted, it
has now reached normal condition.
Western Smelting Company
Elects Officers for Year
The annual meeting of the Western
Smelting and Refining company was
held July 5 and the otticers reported
ery favorably on the business tor the
ast year.
J his firm was established two years
ago ana nas made an excellent snow-
in tr. mat tne stocKno acrs are wen
pleased is evidenced by the re-election
Ui niL, aauiv uiiiktis iui tut. tiisuitig
year, as follows: A. B. Alpin, presi
dent; H. D. Farewell, vice president;
I. Feldman, secretary and treasurer.
The Weather
Temperature at Omaha TntortUj.
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itation compared with the corretpOBdliis
period of the laet thVea yeare:
' 1911. 1115. 1114. 1I1S.
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Loweat' yeaterday ... 78 88 71 8l
Mean temperature ..81 T8 89 12
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Temperature and precipitation from the
normal :
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Total axceaa alnce March 1 ....87
Normal precipitation 13 Inch
deficiency for the dey'. 13 Inch
Total rainfall alnce Uarrh 1 O.Mlnrhea
Deficiency for ror. period. 1816. .8.78 Inphee
Deficiency for cor. period. 1914. .1.71 Inches
New York, July 16. -Reports of
sharks killed and captured came from,
many points today. Two of the man
eating species were caught alive, one
being hooked in Princess bay, Staten
island, and the other taken in a net
j at Atlantic Highlands, N. J.
Schools of sharks were reported in
I Long Island sound. Near Stepping
Stone lighthouse one was killed which
measured seven and one-nan ieei
long. It became entangled in a net.
Captain Hill of the steamship Fin
land, arriving from Liverpool today,
said he sighted two enormous sharks
off Fire Island.
J Up the Hudson river as tar as us
! sining, N. Y., fishermen reported that
they had seen the huge nsn ana tnree
men fishing off the Larchniont break
water ill the sound made for shore
when they saw what appeared to be
sharks.
Burnasco Employes
Looking Forward to
Big Picnic Monday
All aboard for the annual Burgcss
Nash picnic, to be held this year at
Krug Park tomorrow. This is a year
ly event and is from experience look
ed forward to with keen anticipation
by the employes, from the president
down to the youngest Burnasco.
As usual, special cars will be at the
door- of the store at 5 p. m. to take
the great corps of workers to the
park for their annual outing. Em
ployes upon leaving the store will be
given a ticket coupon, entitling them
to the entrance to the park, transpor
tation, lunch with ice cream, two
dances, ride on the roller coaster,
frntir merrv-tro-round. ferris wheel
and through the old mill. Barrels of
cold lemonade will be handy through
out the lunch.
An unusual feature of this year s
picnic is the fact that the employes
re given the privilege of inviting
their outside friends and family to
meet them at the park.
Another feature is that instead of
button badges, as in former years,
every member will wear a turkish fez
cap of maroon felt with "Burgess
Nash 1916, Krug Park" printed, in
gold lettering. Maroon arid gold are
the stores' colors.
Among the contests will be a 50
yard dash for the buyers and depart
ment managers; 25-yard dash for the
ladies; 25-yard dash for girls; 50-yard
dash for men; 25-yard dash for boys;
special 50-yard ,dash for the winners
of the first and second prizes in the
buyers' and men's races; egg and
spoon race; necktie and collar race in
15-yard laps; ice cream eating contest
for boys; ball throwing contest for
girls, after which "the bunch" will
dance, ride, sing or do whatever sport
they particularly fancy.
Inquiry Being Made
To Uncover Old Loan
Made by Gov, Butler
(Prom a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, July 16. (Special.) In
vestigation is on at the capitol to un
cover facts concerning $5,000 loaned
by Governor Davvid Butler back in
1870 tn 1. M. Smith, from the state
educational funds. The governor took
as security a mortgage on six lots
at the northeast intersection of
Eighteenth and O streets. 1 he matter
was discovered by Dr. G. O. W.
Farnam. who has recently closed a
deal to purchase the rots from a Cali
fornia man and who ran against the
snag in the title.
No warrant existed for such a loan,
it is said at the state house, but such
transactions were common in those
days. It was on a'charge of similar
dealings that Governor Butler was
impeached a short time later.
Investigation among county records
show that a payment of $3,000 had
been made. No such records were
found at the capitol by Westering of
the treasurer's office and Willis of the
auditor's office, who have been poring
through old state files in the basement
for several days.
Records were found, however,
where four payments of $250 interest
had been made on the loan. It was
also found that in 1886, sixteen years
later, the matter had been put lp the
hands of the attorney general for col
lection.
To quiet the title it will be neces
sary to determine if the transaction
was made illegally, or if the loan is
outlawed. It is possible that the state
can still collect the amount due.
Villa Glimpsed Again,
In State of Durango
Eagle Pass., Tex., July 16. Fran
cisco Villa was seen in Mapimi, state
of Durango, Mexico, on June 26, ac
cording to advices recieved here to
day. Mapimi was occupied by the
Villa forces without resistance,' the
information stated.
Chihuahua City, Mexico,' July 15.
J. Bettran, one of Villa's chief lieu
tenants and a participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Vsabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July . 12, reports to General
Jacinto trevino today indicated.
Nebraska Association
Gives Annual Outing
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 15. (Special Tel
egram. The Nebraska association
gave its annual outing at Glen Echo
today. It was attended by a large
number of resident Nebraskans, in
cluding several members of congress?
Four Whites and Negro Lose
Lives as Result of Cloud
burst in Western Part
of North State.
TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL
Several People Reported Ma
rooned as Waters Sweep
Over Country.
WIRE SERVICE CRIPPLED
Ashvillc. X. C, July 16 Five
known dead and property damage
estimated at $10,000,000, caused from
a cloudburst over western North
Carolina early today. The known
dead are: Captain J. C. Lipe, Miss
Nellie Uipc and Mrs. Leo Mulhol
land, all drowned in Captian Lipc's
house at Baltimore, and Lonnie Trex
ler and an unidentified negro.
Reports late tday were that two
dams at Hcndersoville, , N. C, and
tlie big dam and Lake Toxoway had
broken: Railway traffic in this sec
tion is at a standstill as a result of
slides and washouts and telegraph
people are reported marooned.
Miss Mabel Foster and Miss Char
lotte Walker, the two nurses reported
drowned in the Maltimore hospital,
have been saved,, according to reports
just received.
Murder of Wife of
. St. Joe Prosecutor
Remains a Mystery
St. Joseph, Mo., July 16. Twenty
hours after the murder of Mrs. Oscar
D. McDaniel, wife of the prosecuting
attorney, in her home and the at
tempted assasination of McDaniel
the case tonight is as much a mystery
as ever. A dozen or more suspects
were arrested in the course of the
day, but all were released.
The theory has been abandoned
that the murder was only one step in
a plot for wholesale jail delivery and
revenge upon the prosecuting attor
ney. A threatening letter received by
McDaniel about two weeks ago and
the finding of a kit of tools today
which could be used for a jail de
livery appeared to bear this out."
It is now suspected by officers that
the anonymous letter was written in
side the jail and a prisoner who was
in the jail on a charge of highway
robbery is believed by the police to
Know sometning aoout it. He and
several other prisoners were ques
tioned by the police today and it it
rumored that one of them supplied a
clue.
Suspend Loading of
Submarine and This
May Delay Its Going
Baltimore, July 16. The load
ing of the cargo for the re
turn trip of the German submarine
merchantman Deutschland was sus
pended late this afternoon, and al
though a permit was obtained for
work tomorrow it was undecided to
night whether it would be taken ad
vantage of.
A second gang of stevedores was
put to work today loading the rub
ber that is to be carried to Germany-
It originally was intended to
ship this commodity in bags, in which
it had been packed, but it was found
this wojld take up too much space.
The removal of the rubber from the
bags consequently will cause an un
expected lengthening of the time for
loading and it is considered improb
able that the Deutschland could get
away with a full cargo before Mon
day night. No nickel so far has been
loaded on the submarine, while ap
parently less than fifty tons of rub
ber have been placed in the hold.
HERE'S YOUR MAN-EATING SHARK The above it a picture of one of the Jhoal of man
eating sharks, with which the eastern coast it alive. The shark menace has practically
stopped beach bathing, because of the vatt number of sharks near the coast.
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KINKAID HOPES
TO SOLVEPROBLEM
Congressman From Sixth Be
lieves Water Will Be
Released.
HANGS ON LANE AND DAVIS
Boys Swimming in
Loup River Drowned
Monroe, Neb., July 16. (Special
Telegram.) While bathing in the
Loup river this afternoon John and
Adolph Buhlmann, aged 22 and 17
years, were drowned. The accident
occurred about two miles west of here
and was witnessed by several who
were in the river at the time. One of
the boys attempted to rescue the elder
Buhlmann, but came very near being
dragged under. Neither of the vic
tims could swim.
After a search for the bodies the
youngest one was recovered late in
the afternoon, but the older one has
not been recovered and search is be
ing continued.
Screened Buildings
For Troops on Border
San Antonio, Tex., July 16. Half
a million dollars will be spent by the
quartermaster's department in the
erection immediately of screened
buildings to be used as kitchens and
dining rooms for troops on the bord
er. Notification that the War depart
ment had authorized the expenditure
was re:eived at departmental head-
nH.rl.r. fnrtav Th irr..n win
buildings will be erected along the'
Doraer.
Approximately 2.000 militiamen
passed through San Antonio today on
the way to border stations. Reports
from Imrrfer commanders rntitainrH
no news of raids. J
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 16. (Special Tel
egramsJudge Kinkaid, who has
been on a nervous tension over re
ports coming in from his district about
the shortage of water in the Piatt be
cause ofitsimpounding in the Path
finder dam, said today that he believed
relief would be granted by the recla
mation service just as soon as an
agreement could be reached as to the
amount of water needed by senior
farmers along the river.
Following the resolution passed by
Senator Hitchcock yesterday calling
upon the secretary of the interior for
a report as to what extent the waters
of the Platte river would naturally be
available for irrigation of crops at this
season ot the year in Nebraska as far
east as Kearney and that have been
impounded in the Pathfinder reser
voir," Judge Kinkaid had a long con
ference with members of the reclama
tion commission today. He learned
that, although without authority to
act in the absence of Secretary Lane
and Director Davis, they would sug
gest that the water be sold to those
now in need because of the lowness of
the Platte at 20 cents per second fool
per acre. -
Whether this agreement could be
consummated depends on, the secre
tary of the interior and Director
Davis, both at present away from the
city.
Charge of British
Cavalry Staged as
In Napoleonic Wars
British Front in France (Via Lon
don), July 16. After the breach was
made in the second German line yes
terday cavalry detachments, English
and Indian, for the first time had the
reward of their year's wait since
trench warfare began. They went
straight in the face of the Germans,
who were forming a new defense line
between the strong points of High
wood and Delville wood, which the
British infantry was attacking.
It was 7:30 in the evening when
they rode forth from the cover where
they were awaiting orders to cross the
fields after their patrols had felt the
way with clear going ahead, and be
hind them the demolished trenches
of the first and second lines and an
area of shell holes, which made diffi
cult progress to their rendezvous. The
infantrymen could hardly believe their
eyes.
When some Germans with auto
matic rifles, which are virtually port
able machine guns, blazed from a
wheat field the Dragoon guards set
their lances and charged, wheeled and
rode back through them, as might
have been done in the Napoleonic
war. Thus for the first time in eight
een months of continuous warfare on
the western front, with its continuous
bayoneting, bombing, gasing and
shelling, an enemy was immediately
impaled from a horse.
Germans Give Figures,
Ask Allies for Some
Berlin, July 16. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) The war office published
today a list of the types, classes of
motors and names of occupants of
twenty-two French and British aero
planes captured by the Germans on
the western front last month. In its
statement the war office asks the
French and British authorities to pub
lish details "in regard to German
aeroplanes which our enemies pre-
nl hw h.u. ..antorat " T
German Efforts
To Force Back the
Russians Failure
Petrograd, July IS. (Via London.)
The Germans made a determined
effort yesterday to force back the
Russians in the region of Baranovichi,
where heavy fighting has been in
progress for tome time. Three times
the Germans launched attacks in
massed formation. The war office
announced today that these attacks
had been broken down and that the
Russians, initiating a counter attack,
made further progress.
The announcement says:
"On Thursday evening the Ger
imans, tinder cover of a violent fire,
approached our barbed wire entangle
ments in the region of the village of
Liobanichi. They were repulsed by
our artillery .fire.
Yesterday the oermans opened a
violent artillery fi.e against our lines
eastward ot Ijorodichtche Barano
vichi sector, after which they assumed
the offensive in the region of Skro
' owa. but were repulsed with heavy
losses. A little later, after a continua
tion of the bombardment, the enemy
took the offensive in massed forma
tion, a little further north of Skro
bowa, but were ngain repulsed by our
fire. After having taken breath, the
Germans made a fresh attack in the
region of the same- village, but our
troops repulsed the enemy with ma
chine gun and rifle fire. We then
made a counter attack, which resulted
in the capture of more ground, which
we are now consolidating."
Rioting Results in
Coast Cities as the
Result of Big Strike
Seattle, Wash., July 16. Two men
were shot and seriously wounded and
a third, a negro longshoreman strike
breaker, was stabbed and severely
beaten during a riot which started
early tonight near the heart of the
downtown retail district.
The negro was set upon by a gang
of strike sympathizers as he was leav
ing the waterfront, was chased up
town and knocked down and kicked
into unconsciousness.
Tacoma, Wash., July 15. Rioting
prevailed on the principal business
streets here tonight when crowds
of striking longshoremen and
strike sympathisers chased negro
strikebreakers from the Milwaukee
dock to the, uptown district. Half a
dozen negroes were assaulted but
none, it is reported, were seriously
hurt.
The strike situation had become so
acute that a citizens' committee ap
peared today' before the judge of the
superior court and presented a peti
tion requesting that a grand jury be
called to investigate recent riots and
the alleged inactivity of the city and
county police officers. The petition
was taken under advisement until
Monday.
Buffalo Democrats'
Adopt Resolutions
Kearney, Neb., July 16. (Special.)
In an enthusiastic convention here
today the democrats of Buffalo coun
ty adopted resolutions lauding the
national and state administrations.
Keith Neville and Ed B. McDermott,
candidate for congress, went on rec
ord for the passing and enforcing of
laws should the dry amendment carry
this fall. They decried the attempt to
mix the political parties up in the ef
fort to force prohibition and then
elected twenty-one delegates to the
state convention to dc ncia at nas
tings. Dr. A. D. Cameron was elect
ed county chairman and Frank W.
brown secretary.
There was more than one hundred
delegates in attendance in spite of the
torrid weather and the fact that farm
ers were busy in the wheat fields.
Plans . for an aggressive campaign
were laid and the crowd listened to
speeches by the candidates of tlie
county.
GUARDSMEN WANT
RIDE ONJLEEPERS
Michigan Militiamen Refusing
to Go South in Day Coaches
Are Pacified.
THEY LEAVE MUSCATINE
, Muscatine,' la., July .16. Troops of
the Thirty-second Michigan National
Guard, which refused today to con
tinue farther toward the border un
less supplied sleepers, wer pacified
late today and coninued on their way.
It is understood the men were prom
ised somewhat better accommodations
than they have been afforded thus
far on the trip. Whether these include
sleepers could not be learned tonight.
Investigation It Begun.'
Washington, July IS. An investiga
tion of the. conditions under which
National Guardsmen have been trans
ported to the Mexican border has been
instituted by the War department in
response to the Moore resolution
passed by the house calling on Secre
tary Baker for the facts. Depart
mental commanders have been in
structed to make special reports. Al
though officials said tonight the regu
lar reports already in hand showed
that never before in the nation's his
tory had troops been moved under
such comfortable and favorable con
ditions. Jay Burns Declares
Details of the Baking
Trade Known by Few
"Everyone eats bread, : almost
everyone buys the bread he eats, yet
not one person in a thousand knows
anything of the details of the baking
business," declared Jay Burns of
Omaha, president of the National As
sociation of Master Bakers, who will
hold their annual convention at Salt
Lake City, August 7 to II, inclusive.
This is the reason, according to Mr.
Burns, that the national association
is about to inaugurate a change in
policy.
"The baking business has under
gone a radical change in the last
couple of decades," Mr. Burns con
tinued, "and from being a small pro
position in which a few men were
interested, it has become the concern
of many, requiring the investment
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
in many instances. The steady in
crease in the business and the acute
competition has developed many
problems of which the baker of a
generation ago knew nothing. The
present war in Europe, with its
greatly enhanced cost of all food pro
ducts, has intensified the problems
of the baking trade so that the lead
ing bakers of the country today feel
that they desire to take the public
into their confidence and work co
operatively towards the production of
the best sort of bread possible. To
this end the program of the Salt
Lake City convention will be di
vided almost equally between the
scientific side af baking and the pos
sible form which educational work
with the general public make take.
"Not only are the bakers inter
ested in producing palatable and
nutritous bread under sanitary con
ditions, but they are concerned in
many colateral matters such as
standardized flour, regulations lor
transportation of foodstuffs, and sim
ilar problems of general interest to
the public."
Man Who Wrote "Wild Man
Of Borneo" Meets Death
San Francisco, July IS. William'
Barton, 87 years old, who was
known a generation ago as a song
writer, died in a hospital here today
a victim of apoplexy. Barton was
a successful contractor, took up song
writing as a hobby, "The Wild Man
of Borneo" wat oneof his produc
tions..
SOMME ADVANCE
OF BRITONS FREE -OF
OLD BLUNDERS
Present Offensive Against Oer
mans Unmarked by Mistake!
Turning Other Campaigns
Into Tragedies.
EVERYTHING WORKS OUT
Gained and Are Continuing i
to Forge Ahead. !.
TWO THOUSAND TAKE
BULLETIN. ,
Berlin, July 16.-(Via London.)-
Four British attacks In the region of
Ovillert and Bazentln Lepetit, north,
of the river Somme, broke down yet
terday afternoon in front of the Get :
man lines, says the German official
statement issued today. South of the
Somme, German troops occupied a
portion of the Village of Bitches, the
statement adds, and French attackt '
near Barleux and in the region of
Ettrees, were repulsed with heavy
tosses t the attackers. The French
entered the German, first Unci south
west of Thiaumont work, wehere
fighting continues.
London, July 16. With the excep
tion of a heavy bombardment there
were no events of importance on- the
Somme battlefront since the last re
port, says the British official state
ment issued this evening. Five heavy
Howitzers and four 77-milimetre gum
were captured by the British yes
terday. London, July 16. The British
forces have held all the ground gained
in Friday's advance tnd taken two
or three more small tectort of
trenches in the German tecond line.
This is the gist of Saturday'! newt
from the front in France,
' Two thousand prisoners were cap
tured in the last advance and it one
point the British are four miles be
yond the German first line, which
they crossed thirteen days ago. In all
10,000 prisoners and quantitiet of war
material have fallen into British
hands. '
All tidings from the front from cor
respondents and wounded agree that
the British plant have been well
worked out and executed. There are
no repoftt of failure of the reservet
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Loot from victory Into a costly stale
mate, oof similar incidents, nor of
strategic errors or a shortage of tup
plies, which changed the Mesopotam
an and GallipoTi campaign! into
tragedies.
Rests on Workingmen.
General Sir Douglat Haig and hit
fellow Scotchman, Sir William Rob
ertson, chief of the imperial staff, at
fighting and planning leaden, backed
by the, bureau of munitions, appear to
be a strong combination, while the
entire organization and the fighting
qualities of the new army, pitted
against the oldest and most highly
organized modern military 'machine
in the world, have been exceeding the
nation's anticipations. Upon the work
ingmen of Great Britain rests the ulti
mate burden of the war, for all public
speakers tnd newspapers lay stress
on the need of an unlimited supply of
ammunition.
The cost in life of the British at
tack cannot yet be estimated. The
officers' casualty list issued tonight
names 113 killed, nineteen died of
wounds, 156 wounded, eighteen miss
ing and believed killed and fifty-one
wounded and missing. Three-fourths
of the officers listed - are second
lieutenants and their average age is
22 years.
Ruti Repulse Germans.
On the Russian front, the most in
tense fighting is taking place near
Baranovichi, while the situation on
the Stokhod river remains unchanged.
The village of Skorbowa has been the -scene
of desperate encounters, both
Petrograd and Berlin announce. The
Russian war office details the repulse
of three German attacks.
The Russian war office details the
repulse of three German attacks
against the village, after -which the
Russians attacked and gained new
positions. '
Berlin claims the recapture of parts
of the positions lost to the Russians
in the Skrobowa region early in July.
In addition Prince Leopold's forces
took 1,500 prisoners.
Northwest of Friedrichstadt the
Germans have repulsed Russian at
tacks while the Russians assert they
repulsed a German offensive southeast
of Riga.
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