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FRESH DIVISIONS LEAVE TRAINS ONLY TO BE MOWED DOWN German Losses in Men and Guns in Desperate Fighting on Rus- sian Front Are Colossal. A despatch from Russian Army Headquarters on the Stokhod says: Fighting of the most desperate char- acter is in pre ^T-ess on all positions of our front. ?he Germans, driven to desperation by their losses in guns and men, have been launching counter- attacks almost without cessation. Monday and Tuesday they were pouring in fresh divisions which pro- ceeded from the trains to the battle- fields, where they were mowed down by the Russian fire. With huge losses in all attacks which so far have been delivered, they have been beat- en back. Cannonading continues night and day, at times reaching such violence that it is impossible to dis- tinguish individual events. It is sim- ply a continuous roar like thunder. At night the whole sky is illumin- ated by bursting shells, searchlights and star bombs. The towns are fill- ed with German and Austrian wound- ed. The Stokhod position is extreme- ly strong. Allied victories both in the east and V -s*. have not sufficiently reduced the j morale of the Germans to give ground I , for supposition of a sudden collapse of their military strength. The bit- I temeas here is extremely great on I account of the persistence with which i enemy flyers are bombing hospitals I and dressing stations, which occurs I on an average of twice daily. ! All of the German and Austrian armies on the eastern front have been : placed under the supreme command of Field Marshal von Hindenburg, ac- < cording to a deepatch quoting a Ber- lin official announcement. This de- ' cision was reached during the Em- â-  peror's recent visit to the eastern front. A similar announcement, the despatch says, has been made in i Vienna. CROP PROSPECT FOR DOMINION Official Review Issued at Ottawa of End of July Conditions. A despatch from Ottawa says: A special press bulletin issued by the Census and Statistics Office reports on the condition of field crops in Can- ada at the end of July in part as fol- lows: Ontario â€" In the peninsula (Essex county) a large crop of hay has been harvested in splendid shape. Wheat and barley are harvested, but are not quite a standard yet. Oats will be below average. Corn and hoed crops are fair, though later than usual. In eastern Ontario crops are suffering from lack of moisture. Wheat is little grown, its condition is fair and it is beginning to ripen. Barley is poor, rather late and very uneven. Oats, the most important crop of the district, shows some gi-eat divergence, gome crops being far advanced, oth- ers only a few inches high. About three-quarters of the hay is harvested and the crop is a very jrood one. Corn is poor; potatoes are healthy. Northwest Provinces â€" The weather conditions of July have been general- ly favorable, although local hail- storms have done some damage. Grain crops continue to show fine promise, especially on bearing and summer fallow. Grain on the stub- ble is not so good. In southern Alberta crops are all good, and harvesting will commence sooner than was expected a month ago. Wheat cutting is ex- pected to begin about .\ugust 20; hay, roots and potatoes are good. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island report all crops as m:iking good growth. In Quebec the h.iy crop is abundant, but grains have suffered from drought. British Columbia reports cereal crops grow- ing well. SOLDIERS' PENSIONS CALL FOR BIG VOTE. British Parliament to be Asked to Provide $30,000,000. A despatch from London says: Parliament will be asked to vote £6,- 000,000, including £1,000,000 already voted, to provide the full estimated cost of supplementary pensions of widows and dependents of non-com- missioned officers and men, of par- 1 tially disabled non-commissioned of- ficers and men. This sum, William Hayes Fisher, Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Local Government Board, explained in the House of Commons on Thursday, is estimated on a num- ber of deaths not exceeding 220,000, but if this number is exceeded, the amount would be increased propor- tionately. .\n additional grant would be made for officers and men whose general circumstances warranted as- sistance. FRENCH TRRJMPH AT VERDUN: RETAKE VILLAGE OF FLEURY General Nivelle's Troops Remove All Danger of the Enemy Get- ting the Fortress. A Photo Which Shows the Odds Our Men Are Surmounting. German gun crew operating machine gun from bomb-proof shelter of earth, grass, and timber. The gun fires 600 bullets a minute, and is rak- ing the enemy's rifle pits, two hundred metres away. The gun is mounted on an elevation made of planks and filled with earth, and is covered with a bomb-proof shelter. CANADIAN SOLDIERS TO SLEEP 'NEATH MAPLES. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canadian maples are to be planted around the graves of Canadian sol- diers in France. Seed of the red and silver n'aple, ripened at Ottawa, has been sent to London by Dominion Horticulturist W. T. Macoun and planted in Kew Gardens. .â- Vfter the war the little trees from these seeds are to be transplanted in France. Seeds of tho large-leaved maple of British Columbia are to be sent to London for the same purpose as soon as ripe. FORCED TO REMOVE BUST OF E.MPEROR. A despatch from London says: The Gorman administration of Belgium has imposed fines amounting to 10,000 marks on the Belgian committee in charge of the recent municipal art exhibition, according to a Rotterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. \t the request of the Ger- man administration, says the de- spatch, the bust of the Emperor was exhibited among other sculptures. It caused such a hostile demonstration on the part of the visitors to the ex- hibition that it had to be removed. GOVERNMENT TO AID FIRE SUFFERERS. A despatch from Ottawa ?ays: Th» Dominion Government will contribute some substantial form of assistance to the sufferers from the Northern On- tario bush fires of last week. In con- nection with the exact form of that as- sistance, however, the Government is I still awaiting a report from Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Minister of Lands, For- ests and Mine« in the Ontario Gov- ernment, who has gone up to the north country to investigate the situ- ation and ascertain its needs. I Markets of the World Breads tnffi. Toronto. Aug. 8. â€" Manitoba Wheat â€" No. 1 Northern. 11.414 : No. 2 Northern. I1.39J ; No. 3 Northern, 11.35. on track. Bay ports. Manitoba oats â€" No. 2 C.W.. 53c ; No. 3 C.W.. 6Jic : extra No. 1 feed. 51|c : No. 1 feed. 61c ; No. 2 feed. 5lc. Bay ports. American corn â€" No. 3 yellow. 93lc. on track. Toronto. Ontario wheat â€" No. 1 comraerclal. $1.05 to $1.07 : No. 2. 11.02 to $1.04 : No. 3. 96 to 9Sc ; feed wheat. SI to 92. aceordlnK to frelsrhts out.slde. Ontario oats â€" No. 3 white. 4S to 49c. outside. Peas â€" No. 2 nominal. 11.75 to $1.S5 ; according to sample. 11.25 to 11.60. ac- cordinK to freights outside. Barley â€" Maltlnic barley, nominal. 66 to 6Sc ; feed barlev. nominal. 62 to 64c. ac- cording to freights outside. Buckwheat â€" Noaiinal, 70 to 71c. ac- cording to freights outside. Rye â€" No. 1 commercial. 96 to S7c. ac- cordinB to freijchts outside. Xlanltoba flourâ€" First patents. In Jute bass. i6.90 ; second patents, in jute bags. S6.40 : strung bakers'. In lute bags, $6.20, Toronto. Ontario flour â€" New Winter, according tn sample. $4 30 to J4 60. in bass, track Toronto, prompt shipment ; $4.60 to $4.70. bulk seaboard, prompt shipment. Sllllfeed â€" Car lot-s, delivered, Montreal freights, bags Included â€" Bran, per ton. $22 : shorts, per tuB, $24 to $25 ; mid- dlings, per ton, $25 to $26 ; good feed flour, per bag. $1 76. CoontXT Produce. Butter â€" Fre.-h dairy, choice. 26 to 27c: inferior. 24 to 25c : creamery prints, 31 to 32c : solids. 30 to 31c. Eggs â€" New-laid. 29 to 30c ; do.. In carton, 33 to 35c. Beans â€" $4.50 to $5. the later for hand- picked. Cheese â€" New. l^rge. 17Jo ; twin.**. 173c : triplets, ISc. Maple syrup â€" $1 60 per Imperial gal- lon. Drcs.xed poultry- â€" Chickens, 26 to 27c ; fowl. 23 to 25c. Potatoes â€" New Brunswicks quoted at $2 per bag . Western. $1.85. best. $5.35 to $7.50 : good. $6 to $6.50 ; fair, $5.60 to $6 : canners, $4,50 to $5.25: sheep. 6c to 7ic : lambs, lOic to 12c : calves, milk fed. 8c to 10c : grass fed, 6c to 6o : hogs, select. $12.50 ; rough and mixed lots. $11 to $11.76 : sows, $10 to $10.60 : all weighed off cars. CURE DISCOVERED FOR ERUPTIVE TYPHUS. A despatch from Paris says: A cure for eruptive typhus, the disease which made such terrible ravages in Serbia, j has been discovered by Doctors NicoUe I and Blaisot. The physicians describ- ' ed their discovery to the Academy of I Medicine. It is a serum which they found after exhaustive experiments. ] So far thirty-eight serious cases have : been treated by injections, which were I followed by rapid recovery in a num- i ber of patients. In addition, the in- jections of the serum prevented com- plications so frequent in this disease and reduced the death rate from . twenty-five to three per cent. A despatch from London says: The French counter-offensive north-eaat of Verdun on Thursday reached its cli- max in a powerful blow which has re- sulted in the complete recapture of Fleury and the whole system of high- ly-organized defences from south- east of Thiaumont to the Froid Terre ridge. After a series of almost uninter- rupted attacks during the night and in the forenoon on the four-mile front from the Meuse to the woods west of Damloup, the French concentrated all their power In a tremendous thrust on the one-mile Thlaumont-Fleury line. They smashed forward on this point for a distancs of about a quar- ter of a mile through the most power- I ful field works on the western front. ! Thursday night they had counted more than 650 prisoners. I The village of Fleury was attacked ! from two sides, the north-west and south-east. In previous attacks the French had advanced as far as the ruined railway station against furi- ous resistance. Then after the big guns had been given time to clear a path the infantry again went forward, this time to complete victory. All the gains made by the Germans in their attacks of Tuesday have been swept away. In an attack simultane- ous with that on Fleury the French in the Chenois sector drove the Teutons from the trenches they had seized in this wooded region, capturing more prisoners. Berlin previously had ad- mitted the loss of ground recently taken in Lauf ee forest. Captured 1,750 Prisoners. In the last three days the French have captured more than 1,750 un- wounded prisoners. They have also taken a large quantity of military sup- plies, but from all indications they have done far more than that. With the descent of the lull on the Romme the Germans seriously resumed their operations against Verdun. They had large forces at their disposal and all of their powerful artillery. But before they could get well under way the French launched their counter-of- fensive. In other words, they "beat fliem to the punch." The French have regained a footing on two of the moat important heights which look down on Verdun-Pepper Hill and the Froid Terre. The crest o£ the former is a No Man's Land, con- stantly swept by shell-fire. But from the latter the Germans held artillery control of the heart of Verdun. They made much of the capture of Froid Terre, declaring it the most important position on the north-eastern front- Now the French are working their way up to the crest again. The com- munique from the War Office at Paris reports that French troops are fight- ing at the edge of Hill No. 320, one of the heights of the Froid Terre ridge. Fighting on the Somme. Stubborn fighting on many parts of the eighteen mile front both north and south of the Somme is reported in the official communications. The British have made further gains across the plateau north of Bazentin le Petit, but the greater part of their energy was directed towards consolidating the ground already won. During the night the Germans sent four strong detachments toward Del- ville wood. These were allowed to approach to close range before fir« was opened. .â- Vll were repulsed with heavy losses, and at one place fifty Germans were caught in massed for- mation by the British machine gun fire and annihilated. A German strong point between Pozieres and Thiepval was bombarded by heavy artillery and the garrison, fleeing across the open, came under the field gun fire of the British guns. Through- out the day the German artillery maintained a barrage west and south- west of Longueval and Mametz and Calupillar wood intermittently. There was some acti\'ity elsewhere along the line, Germans shelled vil- lages near Arras and Armentieres and dropped bombs on the outskirts of some of the villages without doing any damage. In the Loos salient there was trench mortar activity on both sides. ProTlsloas. { Bacon, long clear. IS to ISJc Pei- lb. Hums â€" Medium. 24 to 25c : div. heavy. 20Jc to 21c : rolls. 19 to 19ic : breakfost bacon. 25 to 27c : backs, plain. 26 to 27c, bonclcj^s bucks. 2l» to 30c. i Lard â€" Pure lard, tierces. 16J to 17c, I and pails. 174 to 17ic ; compound. 14 to 14Jc. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF MANITOBA APPOINTED. Sir James Aikins Succeeds Sir Doug- las Cameron A despatch from Ottawa says: Sir Jamos .-Xikins, ex-M.P. of Winnipeg, has been appointed Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of the Province of Manitoba, succeeding Sir Douglas Cameron, whose term of office expired last week. The prize list for the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition amounts this year to approximately $153,000. It practically all goes to the agricultural classes. -*- If one man in ten thousand pays any attention to what you say you are in luck. Railway men give the Canailian Na- tional Exhibition credit for being the I greatest creator of traffic on the I North American Continent. WORLD'S BIGGEST BAHLE MAKES BRITAIN GREATER Montreal Markets Montreul. Aug •<. â€" t'nrn â€" .American No. 2 yellow. SI2J to 941c. Oal.s â€" 0;uia- dlan western. No. 2, 54Jc : do.. No. 3. 54c ; extra No. 1 feed, 53Jc. Flour â€" Man. spring wheat patents, firsts. $7.20 ; seconds. $6.70 ; str(>ng bakers". $6.50 ; Winter patents, choice. $6.25 : straight rollers, $5.70 to $5.75 ; do., bags. $2 50 to $2.60. Kolled outs, barrels. $5 05 to $5.45 : tlo., 90 lbs.. $2.40 to $2.60. Bran, $22. Shorts. $24. Middlings. $26. Moulllie. $30 to $:i2. Hay. No. 2. per ton, car lots. $17.50 to $19. Cheese, tlnest Westerns, 16J to to 17K' ; do., easterns, ICJ to 16Jc. Butter, choicest creamery. 31i to 32c ; seconds. 30J to 30Jc. Eggs â€"Fresh. 35c ; selected, 33c ; No. 1 stock. oOc : No. 2 stock. 26 to 27c. Winnipeg Oraln Winnipeg, Aug. .S.- Cash nuotatinns^ Wheat -No. 1 Northern. II. 33 J ; No. 2 Northern. $1.31i : No. 3 Northern. $1 26f| ; No. 4. $1,231 : No. 6. $1 17i , No. 6. $1,101 ; feci!. $1 04 Oats â€" No. 2 C.W.. 45c ; No. 3 C.W.. 44Jc : extra No. 1 feed. 44c ; No. 1 feed, 44c : No. 2 fe>>d, 43Jc. Parley â€" No. 3. 73Jc : No. 4. iV.ic : rejected, 62c : feed. 62c. Fl:ix, N.. 1 N.W.C., $1.90J : No. 2 C.W.. $1.S6J. SECOND MILITARY CROSS WON IN ONE FAMILY. A despatch from Vancouver says: To the second member of the Bell- Irving family has come the honor of being decorated with the Military Cross, according to private advices re- ceived in Vancouver. This time it is Roderick Bell-Irving, acting Major in the 16th Canadian Scottish, and is in recognition of his gallantry in leading his company to the attack and the eventual capture of an entrenchment which had been taken from the Brit- ish by the Germans. NEW ZEALAND DECIDES FOR COMPULSORY SERVICE. .A. despatch from London says: New Zealand has decided in favor of the compulsory military service bill, which is applicable "to men of any age not less than twenty and more than forty- si.\." The only important amend- ment to the measure by the Legisla- tive Council was the stringent reli- gious objectors exemption clause. The Governor has given assent to the bill. -*- XTnlted States Markets. THE SERBS PREPARE FOR A bk; drive. .A. despatch from Saloniki says: Crown Prince .Alexander of Serbia, accompanied by the Minister of War, had a long conversation this morning with the French Commander-in-chief, Gen. Sarrail. They discussed the mili- tary situation and operations. In the evening he talked with .Ai'miral Sir Berkeley Milne. CcmmanJer-in-chief of the British fleet in eastern waters. INV.\SION OF BELGIUM. j Proof That It Was Planned Many Y'ears .\go. I Some of the German press com- ment on the death of General Von ' Moltke is of considerable interest. The Berlin Lokalanzeiger has entirely for- gotten the elaborate German fictions about the sudden and imperative need for the invasion of Belgium and about the supposed intentions of France ahd calmly writes: "In the splendid successes of the first part of the campaign in Bel- gium and France we can recognize gratefully fruits which were probably in no small measure die to the joint labors of Schlieffen and Moltke â€" the tremendous march of victory into the heart of France, and the equally tremendous war of resistance against superior enemy force in the enemy's country and not on the Rhine. The roots of the great scheme which â€" becau.se of the French girdle of fort- resses which has still not been over- come â€" saw salvation in carrying for- ward our own offensive in the west, may be sought in the mind of the old" Moltke; but Schlieffen and the nephew of the strateiric genius ripen- ed the seed in wonderful fashion. Bel- gium alone â€" the same Belgium which long before the war had concluded an agreement with those who attacked us â€" supplied the base for this offen- sive to cover our country in the west," The casual reference to Belgium's supposed agreement tvith France and England is quite irrelevant, seeing that, to say nothing of the schemes of the elder Moltke. Schlieffen left of- fice 10 years ago, and not even the German Foreign Office will venture to say that Belgium â€" so aptly describ- ed by the Berlin Lokalanzeiger as "the only ba.se" for the German p'^n â€" was then in league with her pre- sent allies. I The British Race Is the Greatest in Numbers, Duration and Sacritiee. â€" Historical Facts. MInneupolis. .Vug. S. â€" Wheat â€" Popteni- „ -„„ . /-.r.»-.o Â¥ r^.-r^i tm^ ber, $1 34i . n.ccinb. r. $134»: No. 1 2,000 .ACRES LEN ELED h.ird. $1.3tiJ ; No. 1 Northern. $1.3411 to' cnfl'H IW <a \VK KTf\nM $1,364 : No. 2, do, $1.31 J to $1,244. Corn »"•- '" »^'' S-AiihATOON. -No. 3 yellow. SI J to S2ic. O.its â€" No.] | 3 white. 39S to 10c. Floiii â€" Fancy pa- i , ,„ ,1, f_„_ o,.„i,„(.„,_ „o,.,,. tents, $7; flr»t clears $5.70: second: A despatch from Saskatoon sa>t: cle.irs. $3.20. linin- $i'.'.50. :A hailstorm of unusual severitv Puluth. Aug S. â€" Wheat-No. 1 hard. ^ , , »â- â€ž „„,,., t„. ,i„.Uk _;i ,_ „„,,fU $l.3S : No. 1 Northern. $1 36 to $1 37 : -^truck the country ciRht miles south No. 2. do. $1.31 to $1 3S ; September, of this citv at I o'clock Wednesday $1.35 asked I.lnseed â€" On track Pcccmber. ^ $1.34} ^a.ske.l n^^rning. Two thousand acres of crop A despatch from the front says: A month has passed since the begin- ning of the great battle in the Picavdy, says Philip Gibbs, W'e who have been out hero and saw the beginning, and day by day followed the progress of the British fighting men, knowing their difficulties and dangers from hour to hour, take breath now for a moment and look back upon its life- time counting its gains and losses, with any glory it may have and any ] tragedy. It has been a stupendous month. ' Delvillo Wood, as I have described | several times, has been taken and re- ' taken after some of the fiercest fight- : Ing in all this battle, and is now firmly In British hands. The British hold part of High Wood, and on the left I ' they captured Pozieres and the high Kround about it. So in a month, by j the greatest battle of history, the British race is the greatest in num- j bers, duration and sacrifice. They have taken eleven hostile strongholds. They have won back for France a patch of soil eight miles wide by three miles deep. They have brought hack about 13,00(1 German prisoners. They have killed or wounded an im- mense number of Germany's finest troops, at least 10(\000 surely. j ' Those are the plain, historical facts of one month's fighting in the first ' part of the battle in the Picardy, which has not yet ended. Beyond and [ above these plain facts are others not go easy to tell. They are impossible to tell. October. $2.15 : November. $2,15 ember. $2.13 bid. Dec- arrive, $2.J5 : Septemlu'r. $2^16 asked ; in the vicinity of Victor schoolhouse' were wiped out comiletely. One farm- er reports a loss of $i!.500, and many other farmers suffered heavy loss. The storm appears to have been pure- ly local. Bersaglieri Speediest Soldiers. "Prometheus," Vienna military pub- Zilve Stock Markets. Toronto, .\ug. S. â€" Choi^'e heavv steers, $S 15 to $S.40 ; Oood heavy steers. $7.75 to $S.O0 : Butchers' cattle, good $7.90 to $S.t5 : do., medium, $7.35 to $7 60 : do., common $6. Id to $6.75 : Butchers' bulls, j choice, $7 25 to $7.50 : do., good bulls, $«.G5 to $6.76 : do., rough hulls. $4 50 to $5.00 : Butchers' cows, choice, $7.10 to " v.' â-  '^.'i'.f^""'',V';l''' '''*","*': <io- lication, presents some iiitercstina: fic- medium, $6.00 to $6.25: Stockers. 700 , . ., -, â-  ,- .». to suo lbs.. $6.25 to $6.75 ; choice feed- ures about the marching ct the var- ers dehorned. »t^40 to $7 25 : Canners ^o^J, aj-rnies now at war. .Acconlincr and cutters, $3. Ml to $4 nO ; Milkers,. ^, . .. .. ., ,. ,. „ choice, each, $70.no to $? xoo : do., com. to these statistics, the Italian Ber?ag- and med. each. $10 00 i.. $60.00 : lip^i are bv far the speediest solilicrs Springers, $50 00 to $90.00; Light Kwes, . . ,' 1 ..u « • ii. 1 $7 65 to $s.65 : Sheep, heavy. $4.60 to in the world, the Russians the slowest. $5.35 : Spring lambs, i.er lb.. ll»c to 'fhe former take 140 strides to the 12c; Calves, good t'l choice, $10 60 to! . ^ ^^ y_^^ ,,„ $11.75, do., medium, $!>.00 to $10.00: ilogs. fed and watered. $12.25 : do, weighed off cars. $12.50 ; do., f.o.b.. $11.60 to $11.75. Montreul. .\ug. S. -Butchers' steers, choice. $s.25 to ts.SO ; good $7 74 to $S; ,. .^i â- . u i • i i fair. $7 25 to $7.50: medium. $6.75 to tion untd It has been examined and $7 : comon. $6 to $«.50 : butcher cows. ' nronounccd sound by the Association's good. $5 to $7.50: fair, $5.50 to $5.75: *^ . •„„„„.„,.„„_„„ fonimon. $5 to $5.26 : butcher bulls. Veterinary surgeons. ] minute, the latter 112. « No horse is allowed in the juiiging ring at the Canadian National Exhibi- ALLIES USE MANY GUNS. Seven Forms of Artillery .Vre Em- ployed in War. No fewer than seven different kinds of artillery arc taken into the field by a modern army â€" mountain, horse and field guns, light and heavy howitzers, po.<:ition guns and siege ar- tillery, says The G!a.rgow Herald. The most famous of the European field guns is the French "75." Its special excellence consists in it« recoil buffer. Most modern .sruns are placed on car- riages dcsi.uned to absorb the shock of recoil without allowing tlv.> carriage to move. In this way great rapidity of fire is attained, as the gunners have not to lay it after e:ich shot. The French gun is held in position by a spade at the end of the trail, and the wheels arc strongly braked. The gun when it recoils slides along a cradle and is stopped by the ingenious pneu- matic buffer, which operates with marvelous smoothness. The gunner keeps the sights, which do not move ; with the gun, on the target all the 1 time. I RETREAT ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE Russian Nut-Cracker Is Slowly, but Irresistibly. Closing In. -A despatch from Petrograd says: The ultimate Russian occupation of Kovel and Lemberg and the retire- ment of the -Austro-Gcrman line of defence beyond the Bug River are now regarded here as a foregone con- clusion. The armies of Generals von Boehm-Ermolli and von Linsingen, which have been badly crippled in their efforts to hold back the advanc- ing right wing of General Brussiloff's forces, have been forcevl to retreat to a point which leaves open the ap- proaches to these two important cen- tres, and the Russians in both regions have begun an encircling movement, which is slowly, but apparently irre- sistibly closing in upon the two cities. The German loss of the Stokhod crossings and the recently-announced Russian crossing of the river leaves no important line of defence before Kovel except a natural barrier oon- sisting of a wide swamp, which un- doubtedly will retard the Russian progress. But this movement from the west along the route midway be- tween the Sarny-Kovel and Ro\tio- Kovel railways, in conjunction with the Russian pressure brought from the south in the region of Vladimir- Volynski. both of which are success- fully developing, despite all German counter-attacks, is considered as making the outcome assured. The operations against the Ger- mans are also having an important effect in facilitating the advance against the .Austrians dufending Lem- berg. since they enable the Russians to exert pressure against the .Austrian left flank and increase that brought up on Lemberg from Brody and from the south, where Gen. Letch itzsky's troops are successfully traversing the flooded Pneister region and are threatening the Galician capital along the route leading through Stanislau and Halioh. It is unofficially reported that th« Germans have already begun their re- tirement from Kovel and are prepar- ing to fall back on Brest-Litovsk, Cholm, and the general line of de- fence following the Bug River. « _- G E R M A N S lU ) M B A R D RUSSIAN HOSPITAL. .A dosf.itch from Pet:'v.grad says: The Russian official statement is as follows: ".An enemy aeroplane bom- barded a transport containing wound- ed near Dusitchi, on the Vladimir- Volynski-Lutsk route. kiUitig one and injuring t'vventy already wounded men. The same aeroplane also bombirded the divisional hospital in Dusitchi, killing one and injuring eig:ht hospital orderlies. Caucasian front: Our ad- vance continues." â- ^ESS" ir^m^^'