The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-06-15
RUSS TAKE 1000
At CzERNoW|Tz
Austrians Flee From Capital Of
"''' BdkoWina. s'.' s.,
PRISONERS TOTAL 114,7oo
Capture Of Demidovka Is Announced
by Petrosrad-GeneraI BrusIIofFs
z Army Has Advanced Sixty
Miles Within Week,

London, June 13.-The great Rms
sian offensive, probably the most spec
tacular drive of the war since the Ger
man advance through Belgium, added
nearly 1000 more captives to the 1903,
QUO already taken, and swept down
upon CZernowitz, capital of Bukowina,
which has been evacuated by its civil
and military authorities for the eighth
time in the course of the war. The Rus.
SLAMS are reported to have entered the
city.
Petrograd officially announces a to-
tai OF 10000 men and LOO officers
captured in the two weeks drive. The
cossacks are pursuing the fleeing Aus.
TRANS at many points.
3l.y, Demidovka Captured. 49,.
" The capture of Demidovka. Is miles
west of Dubois, reveals an advance at
the rate of at least eight miles a day
by the Russians in the Volhynia re.
gion.
The Russians continue to advance
aiong the 25O-mile' line. between the
Pripet marshes and the Bessarabian
frontier. At only one point on the
Styr, east Of Rolki, have the Austro-
Hungarians been able to check the
Russian drive
Advance Sixty Miles.
AT some points the Russians have
advanced 60 miles within the last
week.
General Brusiloff's army has can. !
tured an enormous amount of booty.
This includes 125 guns
Two, divisions of Austro- Hungarian
troops were captured northeast OF
Czenrowitz with all their generals. ar.
thiery and ammunition, where, the Rus.
SANS by a brilliant maneuver, out
nanked the Teutons. The Austro.Hun.
garians were being annihilated by the
Russian artillery when they surren.
dered.
Those who escaped capture fed. in
disorder. . @~' :
General Techitsky is in command of
the Russian army in Bukowina.
=. heavy hghting is in progress in
northeastern Bukowina, along the
Pruth river. i
A direct drive on Lemberg from the
NORTH is expected momentarily.
Excitement in Villages.
Details OF the fighting are still lack
Ing, except for meager accounts filter :
ing in from wounded officers who have !
arrived at kiev and Odessa. Scenes \
OF excitement in the trenches and viii i
lagos, where the reserves were sta I
TONED, when the word of the proposed =
advance came on Saturday, June 3, are y
told by a captain OF Siberian regi-
ment. Where possible, religious serv- :,
ces were held before the Offensive be- n
gan. IN
There are still no official reports of a
he Austrian losses, but the estimates "
lere, which arc considered conserva.
I've, place them at 100000
Germans Claim ADVANTAGE. Il
Berlin, June 13.-Russian troops at G
empted to advance northeast of u
'uezacz,. Galicia, and were repulsed, o
ne war Office announced. More than y
800 Russians were captured The z
tatement follows Eastern 'front.' N
'err1an and Austro- Hungarian troops N
elonging to the army of General van u
'othmer repulsed Russian detach- {"
rents which were advancing northeast II
Buczacz, on the Strypa More than Il,
800 Russians remained I'm our hands
otherwise the situation of the German
loops is unchanged" ,$tsI N
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