Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-12
RUSS TAKE HOST
| OF PRISONERS IN
I MOVE ON AUSTRIA
Capture of $4,000 Men and
Immense Quantity Of War
b Booty During Recent Coup
in Galicia.
STILL ARE MAKING ADVANCE
/ Franz Joseph's Line on West
Crumples Up Before Cars
~ Soldiers.
STILL FIGHTING NEAR VERDUN
STILL ARE MAKING ADVANCE
STILL FIGHTING NEAR vERDUN

Petrograd, June 1.-THE fighting
yesterday on the front of Galicia and
Volhynia, says the official statement
issued here today, the Russians took
4Oo officers and $4,000 men. They
also captured thirty guns and an
enormous quantity of booty. The
statement adds that the army OF Cen
eral Teehitskyn, alone, operating, in
the direction of Czernowitz, Buko-
wilma, overwhelmed the Austria Hun
garians, and took $4,000 prisoners,
Since the present Russian offensive
was started, the emperor's troops
have taken about $4,000 prisoners.
Enormous Losses.
The text of the Russian official
statement follows:
"Our offensive on Volhynia, Galicia
and Bukowina obtained fresh sue
\ cesses Yesterday. The enemy armies
continue to suffer enormous losses i'll
prisoners alone.
"The fierce attacks of Our troops
are throwing into our hands thou
sands upon thousands of prisoners
and booty of all kinds, the exact esti-
nation of which is as yet impossible.
For instance, in single sector on
the enemy front we captured twenty.
one searchlights, twenty-nine tield
kitchens, forty-seven trains of ma
chine guns, 10000 rolls of barbed wire,
1000 concrete planks, 100000 cubes
of concrete, 10000 poods Of coal,
enormous depots of ammunitions and
large'quantities of other material.
Booty in Great Quantity.
an another section we captured
10000 rifle cartridges, 800 boxes of
machine gun cartridges, 200 boxes of
hand grenades, 1000 rifles, four ma
chine guns, two range finders and a
Norten portable pump for the extrac-
ton of drinking water.
"The capture of such enormous war
materials prepared BY the enemy for
various operations affords proof OF
how opportune was our coup. y
During yesterdays fighting we
took as pisoners one general, 400 Of
-ficers and $4,000 soldiers, We also
captured thirty guns, thirteen ma
chine guns and five bomb throwers.
This makes the total trophies in the
recent operations one general, l,64o
ofscers and more than 100000 SOL
diers, and 124 guns, 1870 machine guns
and fifty-eight bomb throwers."
Germans Rush at Verdun.
Berlin, June l1.-Violent artillery
fighting is in progress. on both sides
of the River Meuse, north of French
fortress of Verdun, according to the
German official statement issued to-
day. The Germans have added three
cannon and seven machine guns to the
booty taken by them on the east bank
of the river.
British Coup in Africa.
London, June ll.-British troops in
vading German east Africa from the
north have captured Mombo,. a town
on the railroad in the Usambara dis
trict of German East Africa, while
another British force operating from
Rhodesia, has occupied the town OF
Bsmarckburg, on the southeastern
shore of Lake Tanganyika.
Germans Repulsed. a.
Paris. June ll.-Three German in
fantry attacks against the French
trenches on Hill 304 and the positions
east of that elevation in the Verdun
sector, vase ompletely checked last
night by the French troops, says the
official statement issued at the War
department here this evening. Two
German detachment> penetrated the
French advanced trenchesi II the for.
est of Apremont, southeast of St
Mihiel, the statement adds but were
later elected after haad-to-hand fight.
ing.
Italians Make Stand.
Rome (Via London), June H.
Austro- Hungarian troops, 1900
strong. yesterday attacked in mass
formation the Italian positions or
Monte Lemirle,b 1T were repulset
with heavy losses, says the Italian Of
ficial statement given out here today
The Italian offensive recently started
between the Adidge and Jadig rivel
and Brenta, the statement adds, i:
making progress at several points.
Two Boys Drown.