New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
Teuton Losses in Great
Drive Put at
100000.
BRODY CAPTURED
WITHOUT ARTILLERY
Onslaught SO Sudden That the
Russian Infantry Easily Con-
quered the Town.

Petrograd, July 29.-After being com
PEELED to halt their advance for sew
eral weeks before combined Austrian
and German resistance on the northern
wing Of General Brussilof's front the
Russians have again scored an impor-
tant success and are pressing the leu
tons back along the entire front from
the Kovel-Lutsk railway as far south
as Brody.
Although the official War Office state
ment gives no particulars of this new
penetration of the Teutonic lines, it
apparently took place south OF kiselin,
on the Vladimir-Volynski highway, and
was a direct blow at the Austro-Ger
man army defending Vladimir-Volyn-
ski.
The unexpected widening Of the
breach begun at Lutsk in the early
days of the summer campaign That
has thus been effected is considercd
more significant than the occupation
Of Brody, which was a foregone con
clusion some days ago, the fate OF
Brody being sealed when General SAX
haroff scored his brilliant victory on
the River Slonevka.
Threaten Kovel.
The new Russian attack south Of
Lutsk not only threatens Vladimir
Volynski, but opens the possibility OF
a successful attack upon kovel from
the south, since an important railway
line connects these points. The proX-
unity of the Russians TO Sokal likewise
constitutes a definite threat at Lem
berg from that direction. The chief
significance of the new advance, how
ever. is the fact that it is the first
decisive success scored by the Russians
against German forces in the present
campaign.
Since the first breach of the Lutsk
front the Germans, taking over the
defence of Kovel, had been able to
hold the Russians on the line of the
Stokhod The combined effect of the
two Russian advances-toward Vladi-
mir-Volynskl and toward Brody-has
now been to drive the Austro German
armies back along a sixty-mile front.
The fall of Brody, however, has not as
yet seriously awakened expectations Of
an immediate pressing on to Lemberg
by the Russians.
Lemberg Well Defended.
Military critics call attention to the
strong natural and artificial defences
protecting the Galician capital. II IS
expected that the Austrians will make
their first stand in the forests i'm
mediately west of Brody along the
bend in the Styr.
According to semi-official informa-
ton, Brody was taken without artillery
preparation by an irresistible rush Of
the infantry. The onslaught was so
sudden and unexpected that the Aus
trians had no time to remove their
enormous depots of munitions and pro-
visions, which they endeavored to de
stroy, but large part of which fell
into Russian hands.
The latest computation Of prisoners
taken during the first half of the
summer campaign gives total OF
$4,000, according TO Russian officers,
who estimate also that the total Aus
tro- German losses, including killed
and wounded, are close to 10000. On
the basis of these figures Colonel
Shumsky, military critic of the "Bourse
Gazette" argues that the Austro-Ger-
man losses since the beginning of the
war have been fully half the total Of
their available forces.