Maintaining their drive against the Austrians in Galicia, in the region of Kolonica, the Russians have captured many villages. Northwest of Kimpo, Lukowina, the Russians already are in the mountains, and they report the seizure of several strong positions. At Tucks of German troops in the region of the Li pa River were repulsed with heavy losses, Petrograd. The German troops under General von Linsingen have taken Russian positions west of Kolki and southwest of Sokul. Fighting is in progress southwest of Lutsk. General von Linsingen's forces since June 1 have captured thirty-six officers and men. Petrograd reports the number of prisoners taken from June 1 to June 30, inclusive, as 17,000 officers and men.

GITICATIO WONDERFUL
INTO GERMAN LIVES
LONDON, July 1.?The grand offensive on the western front, begun by the British and French on both sides of the River Somme, sixty miles north of Paris, early this morning, has already resulted in a great wedge being driven into the German lines along sixteen-mile front, with its sharp point penetrating nearly five miles.

At 8 o'clock tonight the British had pushed from a short distance east of Albert, as far as Montauban, more than five miles away, and had repulsed a German counterattack on that village. Both to the  North and the south, a number of other villages, including Dobson terne, Serre, La Bolitelle and Mametz, had been swept out of German hands, about of them only after. 