Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 62, 17 June 1916, Page 5

Russia

RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. [United Pbess Association.] (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, June 16. The Daily Telegraph’s Petrograd correspondent states: General Letchitzky’s troops surrounded Czernowitz on three sides. The enemy’s tardiness in evacuating was due to a desire to remove important stores. The Russian advance in the Tarnopol district is not being pressed at present, because development of the Russian success northward and southward will compel a withdrawal of the enemy from Tarnopol, and acceptance of battle is more or less open. GREAT JAPANESE GUNS AND SHELLS. EFFECT DUE TO NEW EXPLOSIVE (Received 8.45 a.m.) Rome, June 16. Newspapers state from a Russian source that the effectiveness of the Russian artillery in the persent offensive is due to great Japanese guns and Japanese shells charged with a new explosive, the destructiveness o. which surpasses all expectations. SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH. BELITTLING RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

(Received 10.5 a.m.) Paris, June 16. The newspapers in Vienna are foibidden to publish the Russian communiques. The public are without, news, except the Austrian communiques affirming that the Austro-linn-garian losses are small and the Russian losses overwheltnning. ihe increasing influx of refugees from Lemberg is interpreted in official statements as mendacious.

CZERNOWITZ EVACUATED.

(Received lCf.5 a.in.) Athens, June 16. Bucharest reports that Czernowitz has been evacuated.

lemberg and przemysl.

London, June 15

The Central News’ correspondent at The Hague telegraphs that the inhabitants of Lemberg have been instructed to evacuate the township. The bank is closed, and money and valuables have been sent to Cracow Another correspondent at Bucharest states that the commandant ol Przemvsl has informed his troops that the Russians will probably invest the fortress, and urged a new display ot valor similar to that of their predecessors.