RUSSIA'S NEW OFFENSIVE.

Northern Advocate, 3 July 1917, Page 3

RUSSIA'S NEW OFFENSIVE.

VICTORIOUS EFFORT.

WESTERN ASPECTS.

BRITISH DOMINANCE.

FOUR WEEKS' TALLY.

MANY MEN AND GUNS.

One m-nth's tally of captures by the British in Western engagements includes nearly 9000 prisoners and over 060 artillery pieces of all calibres.

An estimate of the first year's depredations caused by submarines places tbie shipping losses at a total tonnage of four millions, 75 per cent, of which was replaced by new vessels. The Germans' expressed Intention was to destroy a million tons of shipping per month. Reliable evidence shows that the Germans are lacking sufficient heavy guns and ammunition to adequately counterbalance the artillery work of the British, who by focussing fine npon enemy batteries hare destroyed 1280 big-calibre gunaLat an average rate of Sβ per week. Russia's renewal of the least in part-has plentiful confirmation in to.day's cables. The Germans admit renewed activity on a widely extended front, while an authentic message records an initial Russian victory in the capture of a strategically important town and over 8000 defending troops.