BRODY HAS FALLEN

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 29 July 1916, Page 5

BRODY HAS FALLEN

! AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Received 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. ! The Russians officially announce the ' capture of Brody. TERRITORIALS' MAGNIFICENT DASH. LONDON,. July iS. Correspondents at the British headquarters detail the capture of positions at Pozieres by the Territorials, I co-operating with the Anzacs. They [ had great difficulties to overcome. ! They showed the utmost dasli and I staunchness in clearing the Germans ! out of the West of the village, while I the Anzacs attacking the south east j ground, gridironed the enemy. The trenches were dotted with stronglyfortified machine gun posts, which in addition were commanded from .trenches before Pozieres on the high ground above Thiepval. The Territorials made a lot of ground the first night, and afterwards continually forged ahead, rushing a bit of trench and machine gun posts till they junctioned with the Anzacs at the top of the village on Tuesday evening. The British are well established on the line towards which the second main push begun on the 14th. was directed. GERMANS PREPARING FOR THE NEXT MOVE. LONDON. July 2s. Evidence is accumulating that the enemy has concentrated great quantities of guns and troops to oppose the next British move. CAPTURE MAY PROVE DECISIVE. BRITISH SITUATION VERY STRONG. LONDON, July 28. The, t /-Westmmster Gazette's" miii-'' taryj! co-respondent says the capture : 6t ,JPp3fifels%.may -prove decisiveV- Pozieres" . and] f LpngueSais command' ttie' :il mafh jroadfe converging on* 'Bapaunie,' Fo.ur|ea3ffi^WC^— a "cross .rpad' : running between ..J.hem. The capture:; ox^||i|tftfekfe^ ; weigjit and momentum in on, • open^gricHil!u¥ar ,n! requiring masses to resist.it» The- capture of' Pozieres ha,s>ideeided the • crux of the'" in,o.ur.laviourv' —«*—- .——•- Anzacs And terbi't6rial8 a ' AND., v CEMiSTERY CAP-* TURED. ./.uiv* ■■:., -.-;:■' LONDON, July 28. '" The Australians and Territorials captures at Pozieres include the windmill and the cemetery. SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. BOTHMER'S ARMY ENDANGERED. COSSACK RAID ON HUNGARY. PETROGRAD, July 28. News from all fronts continues to be of the brightest. Brusiloff having induced the enemy to make a big concentration to defend Kovel, is holding them there and strik-1 ing elsewhere with invariable success. Though Kale-dine is temporarily quiet on the Lusk salient, Sakharoff is putting in brave blows. His victory north of Brody is a most serious threat against Von Bothmer's prolonged stand along the Stypa, though Bothmer is still assisted on the right flank by the fact of the Dniester floods. Great developments in Galicia are impossible until Bothmer falls back. Sakharoff is now fighting for the fords of the small stream Boldurnovka; where the Austro-Germans are making a stand. T.he battle has already brought Sakharoff four miles nearer to Brody, and deepened the envelopment of Pflanzer's Austro-Germans fighting southward. The Russians in Bukov'ina continue to advance .qn the Jablonitza Pass, and are threatening a Cossack raid on '. Hungary.

GERMANS REINFORCING

HURRIED MOVEMENTS IN

FLANDERS

LONDON. July 2?

The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Amsterdam says two divisions of infantry and 4000 Uhlans left Ghent district going south. There is a continuous stream of men and guns en route to the Somme. One hundred and fifty guns and two divisions traA'ersed the Ghent railway in two days.. The mans have suspended passenger communication between Belgium and Holland. Most stringent restrictions have "been imposed on. the inhabitants, o* Flanders and tfce' north, of France. It is believed the majority of Belgian garrisons have been sent into the firing line.

AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM

LONDON, July 27

A Vienna official report says: Repeated Russians attacks between Radziwilov and the Styr broke down, the enemy leaving 1000 prisoners.

SAKHAROFF'S GREAT HAUL

A communique says: General Saknaroff between the 16th and 25th prisonered 34,000. The total prisoners taken during the battles on the 25th were 128 officers. 6250 men, five guns and 22 machine guns.

ARMOUR WANTED

CONAN DOYLE'S STRONG APPEAL

LONDON, July 28

Sir Conan Doyle strongly advocates body armour to stop machine gun bullets cluring a rush through No Man's Land. A shield of steel seven-six-teenths of an 'inch thick, he says, win stop a point blank bullet. A sheet two feet broad and three feet deep will weigh SOlbs, but it only need be carried a few hundred yards. If the first line stormers carried shields, helmets and a bag of bombs they could clear the enemy machine guns. Seme attackers would be hit in the arras and legs, and high explosives would claim victim s, but many casualties would be savec. Sheets of steel cut the size furnished, with a double thong for an arm grin would suffice. They could be turnec in any direction to form a screen tor snipers.

FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.

GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED

LONDON, July 28

A small part}- of Germans entered trenches westward of the Ypres-Pilc-ken road, but were driven out.

Further south,. after- artillery bombardmnt, we raided a line and encountered the Germans in front of entanglements. ; WV killed thirty and found many dead in' rheir trenches. Aviators -Hfrfe work in locating batteries ( defences.

A WBXBBMMjJk&S&Jdri&

~.,>AJ communique .sayM : .'!A-{da)nnonade ■ almost the, ■jjentite SJEtflU'' It lis particularly violent, at Fleury-, Tuniin Wood, and CUenpis Wood.

I .. GERMANS BOMB WOMEN.

Tljree aviators: Ybom&d ----Gr&pyenvalois, killing a girl and jvouijding three women.