THE UNSTOPPABLE RUSSIANS.
CONDUCTING AN AUSTRIAN DRIVE OCCUPATION HEIGHTS AND VILLAGES. Petrograd, August 9. The Russian official report says East of Sviniuuchy the Russians captured a portion ot trenches and took 613 risoners. .On thej river Koropietz the enemy was driven gut of a fortified position. We captured on the left bank of the river at its junction with Dneister.
South of the Dneister we continued our pursuit of the enemy and drove him out of series of villages and heights which he had occupied on reaching the river Tlnmacz. in the evening we occupied Fscmietca and a ridge of heights north-east as far as the right bank of the Dneister and right of Vorona southwards of Tcmienila as far as Stokovgheia. These battles happened before Monday. We too£ 7488 prisoners including 3500 Germans also five guns 63 machine guns and a number of limbers and bomb mortars.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 10 August 1916, Page 8
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148THE UNSTOPPABLE RUSSIANS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 10 August 1916, Page 8
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