New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
Capture Several Villages and
 Over 1,6OO Prisoners
PRUSSIAN GUARD HARD HIT
Entire Fifth Company of Seventy Ninth Austrian Regiment Fall Into
 Hands of Czar's F'orces-StanisIuu
 Evacuated Voluntarily.

Petrograd, June Il, via London, June 12, 1885 a. m.-Additional suc- cesses for the Russian arms with the capture of many prisoners and guns are chronicled in an official statement issued tonight at the war office. Prob ably the most important of these vic tories was on the Dniester not far from Stry. Several villages also have been captured by the Russians on the left bank of the Dhiester in the same region In this fighting a section of the Prussian Guard is said to have suffered severely. The report states that Stanislau was evacuated wolun- tarily.
 Text of Communication.
 The communication follows:
 "On the night of the tenth and the following day the Germans after a furious bombardment renewed deter ! mined attacks from the west of Shaw Ii on the front of Koujilice, Rakievo and Einoraitzy Several times during the night they reached our barbed wire entanglements, but each time i were thrown back, leaving piles of killed and wounded.
 Tn the region south of Shavli an enemy detachment, composed princi- pally of cavalry, advanced slightly in the direction of Szakinow coming from the west.
 Capture 5O0 Prisoners.
 "on the left bank of the Dubysa from Shaviiany to BetigoIa, we as- sumed the offensive and on the morn ing of the tenth gained an important success taking by vigorous night at tack over 500 prisoners with guns, !, mitrailleuses and other booty.
 'The enemy continued his fruitless attacks in the region of Mosciska.
 Austrian Company Captured.
 "On the right bank of the Dnies- | ter we continued on the 9th and 10th < to press the enemy on the front be- { tween the rivers Tysmenica and l Swica, capturing many prisoners, quick-frers and other booty. In this ] region the enemy, to cover his rc- treat despatched a train of five ar 1 mored automobiles supported by in- fantry toward Stry and Mikolaiw but i the accurate fire of our guns com pGllCus IHe ITdlIl tO ucdI d Idplu IS- treat. In this action the head of OUT 1 infranty column developed an ener- Eetic offensive and made prisoners of 1 the entire Fifth company Of the l Seventy Ninth Austrian Regiment
 "On the left bank of the Dniester on the front of OlchoWice and Bulk, ! aszowice the fighting has been ob- I stinate since the 10th for the villages of Olchowice, Novochine, Wyschnuve l and Kozara, terminating in the com- l plete defeat of the enemy who was thrown across the Dniester. The enemy here suffered especially severe losses among a section of the Prus-s sian Guards i'll the village of Wys- chnuve, where we captured ten guns, eighteen mitrailleuses and many prisoners. H
 Take HOO Prisoners. |
 Attacks by the enemy on the 9th | on the bridge lear Halicz were re- pulsed. The deployment of our troops on the line of the Dniester above Hall { icz rendered necessary corresponds ing modification of the front of troops occupying the Pruth line. In exc cutting this maneuver our troops eva cuated Stanisau without fighting. Near Podougile we repelled Ger man attack. Further south in the di- rection of sOtynias we captured LIDO prisoners during a counter attack on the 9th.' a.