Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 98, 27 July 1916, Page 5

Russia

RUSSIANS CAPTURE 1000 PRI* SONERS. Press Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Petrograd, July :« 'A communique states: The Rus,;'kitßiansi6rossing'of the river Sloniovke, a \'«<ibramch'i:rif iihe Styr, was continued inlierruption, although under '■ ehemy>fire. - During to-day's advance we took 1000 prisoners and captured, ' nine *. guntiy which we are now using against the enemy. \

AT LUTSK AND BRODY. ENEMY FORCED BACK EICHT MILES. CAPTURE OF 15,000 PRISONERS. A HAUL OF 100,000 SHELLS. FORTY GUNS IN 8 DAYS, j Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.40 ta.m.) London, July 26. Mr Washburn, correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, writing from tho tsputh-west front on the 24th says: Despite the rain and heavy roads, the operations at Lutsk and Brody commencing on the 21st, resulted in advances being made everywhere. The operations south-west of Lutsk wreck"ed the carefully-prepared Auslro-Ger-mau plans for attacking in the region of Michailsvka, forcing the enemy back eight miles. We captured 15,000 prisoners and 100,000 shells. The Russians captured 30,000 prisoners and forty guns in eight days.

AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. Vienna, July 24. A commnnique states: We repulsed the Russian attacks southward of the Prislop ridge, also near Lobaczewka, Volynia. We stopped the Russian approach southward of theDnies* ter by a successful surprise night ati tack northward of the Dniester.