The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-08-15
Berlin Reports Capture Of More
Than Seven Thousand Yards
OF Trenches Between ThiepvaI
and Pozieres North Of Somme
SHATTERED TEUT0N LINE
FLEES BEFORE! RUSSIANS
Great SIaV Wave mandates More
Ground Belonging To Austri-
ans While Italians Move Stead
lily Forward Beyond Isonzo
ASSOCIATED Pres, BY Federal wlr.,,..>

(ASsociatsd Press by Federal wirelesb)
n AXIS, August l4.-Flinging the
British out of hardiy.won
trenches north of and east of
Poneres, the Germans were themselves
flung back by the Russians, while
their Austrian allies yesterday found
themselves unable to cope with tha
steady advances of the Italians and
Nlavs, despite the most stubborn re.
slstance-a resistance that won the
raise of their very foes.
Both east and west the lines OF
Fighting men scesawed back and forth.
In the region of the upper Sereth,
south and southwest of Brody, in Ga.
licia, the Russians were unable TO
forge forward, but apparently every.
where else they have battered away
fhe Resistance Of their Teufonic foe
men and compelled the armies OF Field,
Marshal ven Ijnsipgen ard General
Count Won Bothmer TO fall back +.
Teutons Take Prisoners w.
Berlin claims that south Of Brody.
here the fighting was terrific all of
Sunday, the Russians were held or
driven back to their own lines, leaving
the fields behind them Uttered with
their dead and wounded men. The
Germans in that sector claim to have
taken three hundred prisoners from
General Brussiloff.
Vienna, in the official Austrian re.
ports of the days fighting, says that
the Austrians, southwest of Podka.
mien, covered the field with the
enemy dead" Elsewhere in that sec
tor the TeutOn armies continued their
retreat.
The Petrograd account tells of furi.
GUS struggles all along the line, and of
the almost unbelievable bravery of the
Russian troops on the Sereth river
front, where they drove into the face
Of a storm of lead and steel, utterly
"blivious of the death that threatened
them
Wade River Breast High
One regiment of infantry reached
the little river Tukh, a tributary of
the Sereth river. This little stream
had been relied upon to give the pur-
! suing Slavs pause. But the Teutons
were mistaken, for the Russians plung-
ed into the stream and with the water
! lnPPing about their breasts and their
rifles held high above their heads,
waded across and drove the enemy from
their carefully prepared positions.
The ZlOta Lipa river was also reach
ed yesterday and the advancing Rus
sian armies began their preparations
for forcing passage across that. At
the confluence of the Deniuv, q tiny
tributary of the Zlota Lipa, the Slavs
crossed to the west bank of both tri.
| butary and the larger stream.
North of the twisting Dneister river
the Russian offensive continues, and
Petrograd reports 1--WE are successfully
advancing in spite of strong opposi-
tion and much stubborn fighting,
Two Villages Captured
"We have taken the village of
Tustobaby," continued the official
statement issued by the Russian war
Office last night, "and have cleared out
of dense mass of communication
trenches the enemy which had occu.
pied them.
"On Sunday afternoon our troops
succeeded in capturing the town of
ZborOff. Here cychst company, ac.
cOmpanied by armored cars assisted the
infantry troops in the assault.
''In the middle Stripa region and at
Koropice the pursuing Russians have
| "'"'" wy "o''n jam VI the bhelSterJ
| opposite MHriampol.
While the Russians have been success
full in Galicia and Russia, they have
met with reverses elsewh, re. The Tur-
/ kish official report of the fighting in
/ the Lake Van region says:
Russian troops operating in the eau
casus have been driven back, aud in
Persia the Turkish army has also been
successful in pressing back the invading
hosts from Essadabad. In the Cauca
! suS Turks occupied heights dominating
North Bitlis, and have crossed the Mu.
| had. "
The Russian account Of the struggle
Continued on page 81