RUSSIA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 12 August 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA

FALL OF BTANISLAU. ■,3 c . " RUSSIANS IN POSSESSION. Frees Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. 1 (Received 10.30 a.m.) New York, August 11. The Russians have captured Stanislau. THE IMPORTANCE OF STANISLAU. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 11. The Russians are believed to bo preparing for a decisive- battle lor Stanislau, the strategic importance of which, on the south of Lembeig, equals that of Kovel on the north. SPLENDID PROGRESS.) THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS REPORTED. (Received 10.40 a.m.) London, August 11 • A Russian communique states: General Sakharoff, despite the enemy s desperate resistance, is advancing on the Sereth. He drove out the enemy from the villages and woods on the right bank, and our cavalry threw dense masses of German infantry into disorder. We have taking prisoners since the 4th 14,000.

Our successes .are, developing along the Monaaterisk-Nizninov railway. We penetrated to the south part of Monasterisk, where fighting continues. We have made prisoners of 2500. We reached the left hank of the Zlotalipa and captured the village, making prisoners of 1000. W e repulsed a coun-ter-attack with enormous losses. Our cavalry- forded the Zlotalipa and pursued the enemy, reaching the left bank of the Dneister, and making prisoners of 5000.

RUSSIAN CONTROL IN - TURKESTAN.

Petrograd, August 10,

General Kuropatkin has been appointed Governor-General of Turkestan.

THE FUTURE OF POLAND.

Amsterdam, August 11

German newspapers announce that the Austro-German negotiations as to the future of Poland, which were broken off before any result was airived at, will be resumed on a new basis. It is stated that both parties claim complete control of autonomous Poland.

TURKISH FORCE AT LEMBERG.

t London, August 10. ally Telegraph’s Rotterdam correspondent states that about 150,000 Turkish troops are concentrated at Lemberg.

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Amsterdam, August 10. An Austrian official report states: The Russians made futile attacks northward of Nijniow. There have been fresh fights southward of Zalocze. The enemy, since his serious failures on the Bth, has been loss active, west and north-west of Lutsk, but has again thrown forward masses, which are /attacking day and night northward of the Sarny-Kovel railway. The terming columns mostly broke before our entanglements, and they suffered throughout severe losses.