RUSSIAN ADVANCE CONTINUES.
DESPITE DESPERATE RESISTANCE. SERIES OF HEIGHTS CAPTURED. Main Service. Received August 17, noon, Tokio, August 16, A Russian communique states: We occupied some places west of the Zlotalipa, enemy counter-attacks checking further advance. Our troops are fighting forward between the mouth of the Zlotalipa and the Dneister. Despite desperate resistance we occupied two towns upon the Bystritza. Our pressure on tire Delatyn and Voroksta regions is compelling the enemy to retire westward. We captured a series of heights and frustrated enemy attempts to resume the offensive in tbs region of the Kapul mountains, ENORMOUS CAPTURES OF MEN. | Reuter, ; Received Aug. 17, 11.40 a. in. j Petrograd, Aug, :6, ! Official.—Brusiloff’s generals from j the 4th June to the 12th August captured 7757 officers, 850,845 men, 405 | cannon and 126 macnine guns. j
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11648, 17 August 1916, Page 5
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134RUSSIAN ADVANCE CONTINUES. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11648, 17 August 1916, Page 5
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