The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-01
|ovel's Early Fall. With Con-
troll of Many Strategic Rail-
roads, Only Question of Time
EUTONS BATTLING
ITO STOP GREAT DRIVE
biting Forth Every Effort to
Stay Galician Advance-Lit-
tie Changes on Picardy and
|Verdun Fronts

London, July 31.-The iron clutch
General Brusiloff's northern army
bund koyel, the great fortified city
the heart of Eolhynia, where Ave
the most important Austrian rail-
Us converge, has been ominously
htening during the last twenty-four
ars. The Russians have crossed the
lire stretch of the Stokhod River be
ben the koyel-Sarny and kovel-
hitche railroad sectors. Thus
~ have overcome the last natural
ptacie in the road to kovel from
east The success was announced
the Petrograd War Once tonight
hmuitaneously with this advance
most important in Nolhynia since
fall of Lutsk and Dubne. Brust
rs Gahcian army has swept south
rd from Brody, taken last Friday.
b moving along the northea stern
tder of Galicia have reached the
ers Graberki and Sereth. thurs ad
hcing fifteen miles further toward
|nberg, the Gahcian capital. for the
thern-rrsost point of the Sereth lies
eteen miles south OF Brody and
ty-three miles due east Of Lem
Fierce BATTLE in Progress.
)ne Of the fiercesi battles OF the war
bow Iii progress on the front south
Brody. The Tcutons realizing that
further Russian headwsy in Ga
n will spell the fall Of Lerberg
hin short period of timc, and, evil
tits convinced that kovel Is still
+. are Throwing their might and
In into the defense of the Gaiician
Fs With this aim" SAYS the Rus
b Official night statement. the enc
is bringing up all available rein
Elements from every sector, even
ara sse sssa n assesp~sssssssi1ases sswscvseFst
AXIS OF desperate and sanEuinary
hbats' on the front south Of Brodv.
Teutons have launched a heavy
nhardment on Rrody. proba bly, with
lew to reaching the town.
Entire Regiment Taken.
n entire Honved tHunearianl reCt-
III. the 3lst. with its commander
stan was taken prisoners by the
ssians in the Stokhod fighting
too, when the Teutons had let
Re an inferno of iron and steel
inss the edvnneing Russians Vow.
the 1Stokhod is crossed. however,
road TO Kovei Is opening The
lance is facilitated ny two excel
results which. with the Stoknod.
N the triangle in which the fate of
rel Ia being decided in battles that
no less furious than those raging
tn OF Brody and west and south
stanislau, in Southern Galicia.
ugh in that region there seems 10
luli at present.
Fhe Russian army aiming at kovel
IN the west faces its objective in
form OF a great nutcracker. the
pe being determined by the Stok-
Brusiloff's strategy, too, as that
nutcracker, gradually bearing
In the two arms upon the objective.
eexing the defenders into flight or
render.
he front on which the Russians
ksed the Stokhod is twenty-eight
lee long, IL the bend is included.
hin asserted officially this afternoon
strong Russian assaults on Cen
Won Lansingen's lines I'm massed
nation" all broke down under the
OF the defense with heaviest losses
he attackers"
Germans Claim Successes.
he German War Office claims the
lure Of 1889 prisoners.
he Vienna War Once in a state
ht issued yesterday, says Russian
cks between Berestechk (north OF
ay) and the Stokhod. had no
,ess whatever"
the C4ucas us the Russians claim
hsr progress near Erzingan and
repulse Of a Turkish attack in
Mosul region.