Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 56, 9 June 1916, Page 5

Russia

! SUCCESS OF THE OFFENSIVE

EXTENSIVE CAPTURES OF MEN AND MATERIAL.

London, June 8 (1.50 a.m.)

! A Peirograd official report states: The successes of our troops are de veloping on the Western front. Since the beginning of the recent actions, our armies have taken prisoners 900 officers anti 40.000 men, and 'also captured 77 guns, 16) machine guns, 19 trench'mortars, searchlight. telephones, and munitions. A number of the captured batteries were hir tact. j In the recent fighting proof was given to the enemy of the increase in our war material. ESTIMATED AUSTRIAN LOSSES | 100,000. EFFECTIVE RUSSIAN ARTILLERY I fUNiTxn Prk»« AflHoniATiow.l (Received 8.40 a.m.) Peirograd, June 8. : It is estimated that the Austrians losses amount to 100,000 dead and j wounded between the Pripet Marshes and Roumania. The position was enormously strong, there being concreted trenches with heavy baulks ol oak cemented together, and in some fourteen rows of barbed wire, but the Russian artillery has. proved most effective in sweeping the obstacles away. AUSTRIAN FORCES WITHDRAWN Pctrograd, June 8. The Russian offensive under Genera! Brussiloff has so closely pressed the enemy that they are unable to transfer troops from one point to another. An Austrian communique states that in the face of superior forces in Volhynia, on the Upper Putilooka, we withdrew to tho plain of Lusk, forty miles west of Rpono.

CAPTURE OF LUTSK.

11,000 MORE PRISONERS.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) Petrograd, June 8,

Reuter states as official, that Lutsk lias been captured, and also eleven thousand more prisoners taken.