The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-23
RUSSIANS CAPTURE 10000
SAYS PETROGRAD FRIDAY
Operations Around Austrian Border
Reviewed-German Claims
Are Disputed.

Petrograd reports Friday in an Off
cial review of the recent operations
| on the Russo-Austrian front:
The development of the battl'
along the Tismenitze-Svika front
along which one of the six armies at
tackihg our forces in Galicia is oper
ating, will serve to give some idea o
the magnitude of the actions in thi'
region. The significance of the oper
ations in the viciLity of Stry is fount
in the fact that they were an en-
deayor to turn our front opposed tt
the phalanxes under Gen. Mackensen
1.-The eventual success of the en-
emy in the direction of Stry and Lem
berg would have been of great helI
to the offensive of Gen. Mackensen
Failure, on the other hand, would
have meant that Mackensen's opera
tions were merely series of fruit
less frontal attacks.
"The above mentioned sector or
the Dniester river, however, was not
the scene OF the principal fighting
even with regard to the numbers OF
troops engaged.
"The principal attack was deliver,
ed by the army under Gen. Won Both
mer. at a point more to the east. The
attack against ZidacZow was repuls.
ed but on June 6 Gen. Won BothmeI
crossed the Dniester near Juravnc
and on June 8 occupied the left hand
bank for a distance of fifteen miles
"June Sand June 9 the bulk OF
the German forces was decisively de
feated and thrown back across the
Dniester Nevertheless, on June 13,
the German commander, beginning q
general offensive, delivered a new at
tack with the remains of his regi-
ments... The principal German forces
along the right bank of the Stry and
attacked our bridgehead near ZiGac
Zow.
Toward the fifteenth of June the
time came for another reverse of the
enemy. At Beresentica and Krul-
uska alone we killed with the bayo-
net and buried one thousand Ger
mans who had abused the white flag.
Between May 20 and June Is we
captured in this section forty thou
sand prisoners; including eight hun
dred and sixty officers; over one hun
dred machine guns and two dozen
cannon.
1.-THE total losses Of the enemy on
front of thirty-eight miles were be-
tween one hundred and twenty thou
sand and one hundred and fifty thou
sand men.
"Dense additional columns de-
scended the slopes Of the Carpa-
THAN mountains daily and reinforc-
ed the enemy Supplementary de-
tachments, originally destined for
eastern Prussia, met their final fate
in the valley Of the Stry. The addi-
ton of considerable reinforcements
brought into the scene of operations
the. German army under the COM
mand of Gen. Won Boehm-Ermolii.
eve have noted serious symptoms
of demoraliZation which are begin
ming to show themselves in the ranks
of the enemy in the vicinity Of Mikal-
ajow.
sIt has been interesting to trace
the reflection of events on the Dnles-
ter in the official military announce
ments. of the enemy. Every step,
before it has been completed by the
Germans, has been reported in their
announcements in German victory
and a disorderly flight on the part
of the Russians.
"The following day the announce
ments would say the German army
was successfully resisting the pres
sure of the Russians, and on the
third Gay that the Russians had great
forces at their disposal in the. region
in question. Such sequence and
method of reporting has been noticed
in tie German announcements on
three different occasions during the
thirty days fighting on the Dnles-
ter"