The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-10
SLAVS CRUMP LING
TEUTON LINE I'm
EASTERN FRONT
Austrians Rolled Back on Battle
Front 81 Miles LONE
LIQUID FIRE ATTACK FAILS
French Repulse Four Successive AS
saults Upon Hill 3o4 in One
Day
LIQUID FIRE ATTACK FAILS

London, June 10.-lnformetion has
reached the Russian embassy in Rome
that the Austrian front has been com
pletely broken along a length of "a
miles to a depth of 81 IL miles. The
Russian advance according to these ad
vices now threatens to enyelop the en-
tire Austrian army in the region affect
ed, the Austrians finding themselves
attacked from both the east and the
north. Austrian Slay regiments are de-
clared to have been seized with panic
during the first attacks by the Rus
slams and to have surrendered without
any real resistance
A Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
yesterday reports the continuation Of
the Russian successes in Volhynia and
Galicia, The capture of an additional
1876 officers and 1914 men is an.
nounced.
1t is announced at the Austro-Hun-
garian headquarters under date OF
June that the AustrO-liungarian
troops in Volhynia have reached new
positions on the river Styr after rear
guard engagements with the Russians
says a dispatch from Berlin. 1t is
also stated that the Russians are again
attacking with strong forces on the
lower Stripa in Galicia and that the
engagements have not yet been fin
ished.
Five days of furious offensive by
the forces OF Gen Bussiloff has
crumpled the enemy's lines from the
KOvel lsarny railway line to Bukow.
ina, driving them back an average OF
10 miles. says dispatch from Petro-
grad In the Lutsk sector the Rus
slams appear TO have broken through
completely, turning the left flank OF
the Austrian armies and the right
flank of the German forces and cap
turing Lutsk. the center Of a num-
ber of radiating roads and railways.
At several points the attacking Rus.
SLAMS have crossed the Ikwa and
Styr rivers, and further south they
are approaching the Stripa river.
The victories are attributable
largely to the avalanche of gunfre,
, which swept away dozens of lines
of entanglemonts and opened the
way for the troops, who swept
through inirresistible numbers In
some places the Russian barrier fire
cut off large Austrian units which
surrendered This accounts for the
large number OF prisoners officially re
ported captured.
Lutsk is an important link. strength.
ening the connection between the
southwestern region and the north
em section and the possession OF
it by the Russions is regarded as a
valuable step toward the recaptur
ing of lost territory. The possession
! of Lutsk is a direct menace to Lem
berg upon which place the Austrians
are now massing their forces.
London. June 9.-The German arm
les made big attacks on both banks OF
the Meuse today and last night TC
| the east of the river in the region o
Thiaumont Farm violent drives las
night succeeded in penetrating one ad
vanced French trench. On the otheI
bank, in the neghborhood of Hill 3O4
the Germans made four attacks durin.
the day, which were accompanied b,
the use of their blazing liquids Thes,
attacks "failed completely under on
curtain fires and the fire of our mitrail
leuses,' says the Paris statement to
night.
The Berlin official statement dc
clares the fighting east of the Meus
"is continuing IN our favor"
Paris, June BY week of unr
terrupted attacks, in which IL is sal
number of divisions were destroyed
the Germans have advanced their line
about one mile. They have taken tn
southern part of Caillette Wood, pul
Of the Chapitre Wood. Danloup vi
lage and NauX Fort. In past wars th
enemy's progress on the right woul
have compelled the French TO fall bac
automatically from the Douaumon
Thioumont lines, but under the presei
conditions II has been found that sue
a saw.toothed front can be held. II
French found this to their advantal
in the great Champagne offensive.