The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-30
Entire Austro-Hungarian First
Line Is Broken and Impor-
tant Strategic Center May Fall
STANISLAU IS BUT
TWENTY MILES AWAY
Picardy Scene of Tremendous
Artillery Duels. With Ger.
mans Expecting Another
Great Allied Push

London, July 29.--Immediate
ly upon the fall of Brody, Il
Northeastern Galicia YESTERDAY
the "watchful waiting strategy
that had been forced on the Rus.
sian armies in central volhyni.
and I'm the Stanislau section pend
ing a break of the Austrian resist
ance on the Brody -Lcsznioff road
gave way to resumption OF
concerted drive by General
Brusiloff's army on the front from
east of kovel down to the region
south of the Dncistcr. a battle
line more than $50 miles long.
As result of the last twenty
four hours tho Russians have
broken through the entire Aus
tro- hungarian first lines to the
southwest of koyel. driven the
defenders into disordcrly retreat,
and in the south have advanced
within twenty miles of Stanislau.
the convcrging point Of five im-
portant strategic railways which
command the supply system OF
the whole southern army OF the
AustrO- Hungcrians. In toeiay's
and Fridays battles alone the
~ Rassaans took 32,e52 prisoners
including d51 officers and two
generals and captured fifty-fivc
Teuton guns, according 10 the
statement issued by the Pctro.
grad war office today.
Prisoners BY Wholesale.
The total number OF Teutor pris.
oners taken in the first half. Of thu
summer campaign Just cios-
ing is placed at 35o. 900 by a semi.
official estimate given out in the Rus
sian capital
The most important success scored
~ the Russians since Friday morning
$ the advance on Stanislau. The men,
zee or possible Ranking attack from
he north being removed Y the can
ure OF Brody and the subsequent
Russian advanc toward Lembere,
'niy fifty-eight miles away the south :
I'm win" of Brusiloffs army smashed
head in a furious onslaught inst
outh OF the Dneister and captured
ne town OF Izerzany twenty miles
'elow Stanislau. Tie town was cap
urea ny a Cossack cavalry division.
,o-operatinS with the army az .anc-
ng on Stanisiau from the southeas Il
re the Russian forces which have
'een marking time to the west Of
1uczacz awaiting the northern army
o pour into Galicia. The town Of
1umach. little more than six miles
outhcast of Stanislau, is the i'm
Mediate objective of the southeastern
rmy. while the Buczacz army "a
threatening Stanislau from the north
asst Stanislau lies eighty-two miles
lmost due sout' OF Brody
kovcl's Menace Omtnous.
Meanwhile the Russian yolhvria
rmy is vigorously pushing the purs,,.t
I the Austro-Hungarian forces which
Isre forced to abandon their. .0rs.-
Inc positions and the menace 70
.ovel, the chief objective of Bru-
HOT center, grows ominously.
Inc Austrian war ONCE statement
oday admitted the withdrawal OF tha
orces which have been stuhbornlv re-
lsting for weeks between the Tu,.va
siver and the Rovno-Kovel railway.
'hese forces retired to the south ban,,
the Turya, after repulsing storm
nT attacks" The slater emit ASSETS
hat much territory was captured ives.
Z Lutsk and that Russian attac'< !
orthwest of Sokuio on the Stvr wers
epulsed. The fall OF Brody. thourh
oreshadowed in last nights Vienna
eport is not vet adm lifted by the A.
rian war ONCE, The city's car,rrs
'as again reported by Petrograd To-
ay.
A Copenhagen dispatch saws It ~
there that the Germans a..
tanning fresh drive toward pntgo-
rad. Coupled with the initiation IT
his offensive. there will be "a grea.
tack against the Russian feet n
he Gulf of Finland" reports HAYS il.