The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-14
All of Heavily Fortified Posi- tions Along Line From Pripet Marshes to Rou- manian Frontier Crumble Before Onslaughts of Brusilof.
Cossacks Occupy Marian pol, Ten Miles Beyond Stanislau-Von Bothmer Now in Full Retreat Berlin Admits Foes Ad- vances in Galicia.

Petrosrad, Aug. .14-Yesterday. the
 War Office announced, saw the occu- patton by the advancing Russian troops in Galicia of the last remain ing portions of the immense fortified line running from the Pripet Marshes | to the Roumanian frontier. behind
 which the Austrian and German armies stood last winter. Every
 mile of this immense line, fortified with prodigious labor and with every device which engineering skill could suggest, now is in Russian hands, 1t is stated officially.
 Germans in Full Retreat The last portion of this line to Tall, the line along the Stripa and west of Tarnopol, which hitherto had re- sisted in the face of all attacks and the Austrian and German retreat ev- anywhere else, having been held with out a break since last September. crum b1ed under the menace of attacks on both Hanks, and Gen. von Both mer's army, which had held it so long, is reported in full retreat. It is said the Stripa line was evacuated without a battle. Meanwhile Gen. Letchitzky, on Bothmer's southern flank. is pushing on toward his com munications, and has crossed the last natural obstacle between him ana
 Halicz.
 Meanwhile the Russian advance.
 which began on June 4, when the first
 breaches were torn in the Austrian
 and. German lines, continues In the
 open country to the west of the last portions of the lines to give way, in
 Galicia, north of the Dneister: An
 official report last night says:
 "Our crossing of the Rivers Stripa,
 Koropiec and Zlota Lipa is continuing. We have occupied thet own of Pod
 haice (10 miles west of the Upper Stripa, northwest of Buczacz, and the railhead of a branch line running to Lemberg.) On the Dneister our cav airy has captured Mariampol Con the north bank of the Dneister, west of the Zlota Lipa, 10 miles notheast of Stanislau and seven miles southeast of HalicZ.) i.
 "In the region of the Bystritza (southwest of Stanislau. in the Car pathian foothills) we drove the enemy back to the left bank of the Bystrit-. za-Solotvina, capturing 12 officers. 1000 men. seven machineg uns and trench gun."
 The earlier report today tells of Russian progress on the northern Galician flank, west of the Upper Se- reth aE>1 Upper Stripa and west of Tarnopol, where the last of the orig tnal Austrian fortified positions were carried, and the Russians advancing on the whole front, took the towns of Jezierna, 12 miles west of Tarnopol. and reached and crossed the Upper Stripa. In this region the Russians are within 50 miles of Lemberg.
 South of Delatyn," says the earlier report, 'in the wooded region of the Carpathians, our advance near Vo-- roksta, Magura and Jablonica contin-l ues. (This is in the region of the Jablonica or Tartaran Pass into Hun gary, voroksta being on the railroad five miles east of the pass itself),
 83,943 Prisoners Taken Recently.
 ''In view of the great military im- portance of the capture, today, of the final remaining positions on the ene- my's winter; line of Notifications, the several armies are, endeavoring to give details of prisoners and booty taken in the recent operations.
 "One corps of General Sakharoff's troops, between Aug. 4 and II, took prisoners a total of BOT officers and 16,594 of the rank and file,, and cap- tured four guns, 47 machine guns and 10 bomb mortars. The troops of Gen. Scherbatchoff have taken, from June 5 to the present, 1,263 officers and 55.158 of the rank and file.