Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 82, 10 July 1916, Page 5

Russia

RUSSIAN SUCCESS CONTINUES*.

STYR-STOCKHOD POSITIONS CAPTURED.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Beceived 9.50 a.m.) 1 I Petrograd, July 9. The Russians captured all tlio fortified positions eastward of Ugli between (he Styr and the Stockbod, making prisoners of many and taking three howitzers. GERMAN RETREAT IMMINENT. FRENZY OF THE AUSTRIAN FLIGHT. Press Association—Copyright. Router's Telegrams London; July 8. The determined and successful Russian offensive is almost overshadowing the Western Allies effort. An Italian report says a wholesale German retreat in tho East has begun This is unconfirmed, but tho retreat is probably imminent. Meanwhile, it is clear the Austrian defeats will be- , ■ m .

[come a debacle,. without the possi•bility of Germany saving the situs tion.

Details reaching Petrograd sho. the frenzy of the Austrian fligh from Bukowina. A hospital wu found at Kimpoluing in charge ;< only a sirigle nurse, the doctors hnS ing fled, leaving the wounded ' foodless for fifty-three hours, while ..U'a wounds that were dangerous were no bandaged. Now that the Delaytyn-Szigct railway has been cut, supplies for ih> Austrian army must be onormousb delayed.

(Maramaros Szigeb is tho capital oi tho Maramaros County, Hungary, 01 tho river Theiss, and lies at the of the Carpathians 220 miles east Ijv north of Budapest. The popujatioi, of the town is about 20,000.) W

THE AUSTRIAN RETREAT.

! SCENES IN HUNGARIAN } CHAMBER. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 8. - The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent telegraphs that there were scone* in the Hungarian Chamber, members shouting for Count Tisza (tho Premier), demanding protection for Transylvanian territory from invasion, and insisting that the generals responsible for the terrible losses in Juno should be called to account. Count Tisza said the fighting might i,q considered a passing episode. Members of the Independent'Party interrupted, stating that it was a nice little spisode wherein 100,000 . Hungarian soldiers were slaughtered. Count Tisza continued: "In Volhynia we are gaining back the lost ground, and in Bukowina steps have been taken to stay the enemy s often, S1V0« . <<Tl, The correspondent continues: UK bitterness against the Austrian genorals who led the army to destruction is indescribable."

A GIGANTIC OFFENSIVE.

THE POSITION SUMMARISED. j y 9i& initiw3teoteT)B at bc|thmlr^ O W^ B^ei * Il1:eb ' - ; Press Association— Copyright. Reuter' s Telegrams ,' • - ', j± - i London, July ,8. ■Russia's gigantic offensive continues to progress. The present position may be summarised in the following: General: Km'opatkin. has resumed. tremendous attacks on the Riga-I>vinsk front against General Hlindenbmgge Russians have blocked the Gulf ' ot ; Riga against the hostile fleet, ancUre thus-enabled to employ their guns against the Germans |: mdes m- ; land; General Evert's on the, centre' -extends; ,nprAl^,ar^.jsouth of Caransvitekt,(.-«herei jPj;jnce r O.J, S.varia,!m»il^l)eifW^strpn^y,resisted. fhc Russian,!attacks .are, hfirc developing' favorably ion, ai.hundred-mile front. Southward,, General 's#m & M§ gradually forced -, b»Qk> by.- genera] : Briisiloff's right. ( The Russian/left, ; under General Letchitsky, routed the enemy on the right bank of the Dniester. This, together with the cutting - of the important railway connecting Hungary, via Gablonitz Pass, with the Galician system, is imperilling General Bothmer'sarmy, which has been holding ground on an eighty-mile front for weeks. The Russians are now within range of Delatyn junction. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. A communique states; The Russians on the lower* Styr, after a battle, occupied the line Gorodok-Grousiatin, taking prisoner over 2000. Wo sabred many Austrians at Optovo during the pursuit after a cavalry charge, and also took 600 prisoners and a number of guns. We. captured the village of Grcgorov, taking prisoner over 1000. The combat at Lake Narocss is losing intensity. . ,

The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent says that all the easternmost routes of tho enemy's retreat across the Carpathians into Hungary aro held by the Russians. The position of the enemy in Galicia is daily becoming moro grave. The Russian operations are proceeding at an accelerated rate, indicating a collapse of the enemy.

AUSTRIAN WITHDRAWAL ADMITI TED. Press Association— Copyright, Austra- | lian and N.Z. Cable Association. J Vienna, July 8. I An Austrian communique states that the aroops in the Styr salient at Kolki, [after holding their own for a month { against the enemy forces, which in-' ' creased threefold to five-fold in superiority, received instructions to with* draw their first lines, through fear of being surrounded. Amsterdam, July 9An Austrian communique states: We withdrew from the Styr salient northward of Kolki to. previously allotted positions. The enemy is pressing after us at some points in great masses. The Russians, north-east of Baranovitch, were sanguinarily' shattered.