OFFENSIVE RESUMED BY BRUSILOFF

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 7

OFFENSIVE RESUMED BY BRUSILOFF

■; HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING ON BRITISH FRONT. V - FORTIFYING- BAPAUME. :■, .':,' RUMANIA AND THE' ALLIES. • SERBS AND MGAK MEET. -;; FOUL JUDICIAL • MURDER. ••■.-'i' ''•'.'.''■ ■■'.. ■./ .-•■'■■ : .' ':'■■" ' . ■ • ; ' ..■ .'" ■ •• , ■' v ) A sudden' development of the Eussian' offensive, involving-a considerate extension of tho movement against Lemberg from tho north-east, : has already resulted in important headway being made. The Russians /havo captured the Tailway town of Brody, 50 miles north-east of Lem- ; berg, and further north, in Southern Eussia, they are driving.. into the ' flank'of the defences of-Kovel. well to the south of that place. In Southern Galieia General Letctiitßky's army is driving the enemy back upon the . • important railway centre of Stanislau. Tho captured many thousands of prisoners and large numbers of guns. On the Somme front the British have completed their conquest ;of Longyeval village and made ,\ progress at other points. Emphasis'is laid in the reports upon the very heavy losses lately sustained by the enemy.. Sir Douglas Haig instances the annihilation of several German regiments. Details ,df the recent Russian victory in Armenia show that up to Friday last more than 20,600 . Turks'had been taken prisoner. With their war plans falling'in ruin, the Germans are making new departures in the barbarous" . disregard of all law: by which they have .forfeited their claim to be eon- -;• sidered a civilised nation.- Their latest crime is the cold-blooded murder o£ Captain' Fryatt, of the British merchant steamer Brussels, which was recently captured and taken into a German port. The only charge made against Captain Fryatt was that ho had attempted to ram a German sub- , marine, and nnder a sentence, which is said to have been confirmed by a War Council presided over by the Raiser, 'he was shot in cold blood. ' In the invaded area's of' France, also, the Huns are building np their abominable- record. More details are. given of the wholesale deportations of French women and girls ■ from Lille and 'elsewhere.