, 1916-06-28

reports indicate that the effect of the Ger
mans taking an energetic HAND in the game
already is making itself felt upon the Rus
sian advance, which, while perhaps not yet
actually stopped, is beginning to falter at a
number of points. General Brusiloff APP
pears to be increasing his pressure on the
centre of the middle sector, but this move
ment is apparently being strongly affected
by the counter pressure of the Germans
against the Russian line in the northerly
part of Volhynia. The next few days
should develop how far the Russians will
be able to carry on their plan of concentric
offensive for the possession Of Lemberg,
the capital of Galicia. Strategically, the
present Russian success can be said to be
only of practical value and real Importance
if General Brusilof is able to follow them
up and attain Lemberg as a goal. The
Russian movement otherwise has merely
political and moral Importance, but COM
paratively little military value. General
Brusiloff appears to be the first Russian
strategist, who has proved himself worthy
of the metal of the German strategist who
will soon be matched against him. Over
confidence on the part of the Commander
of the Austro Hungarian army of the sec
tor first crushed in by the Russians. togeth-
er with failure to know what the Russians
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to be more or less responsible for the re-
suit of the surprisingly heavy onslaught.
Remedial measures, it is understood, have
been taken in his case.
Petrograd, June 23rd-The Russian for
ces which are cutting their way through
Bukowina in an effort to capture the Aus
trian Army there, have made further
advances. The War Office to day announ-
ced the capture of villages west of Radautz
which was reported yesterday. 800 pri-
soners were taken. The villages near Ra-
dautz captured by the Russians are Gura-
humora, Straizia and Sarac. The Russians
also have taken Visnitz near Kuty. This
announcement shows that the Russians
have traversed almost the entire length of
Bukowina. The village of Gurahumora
is ten miles from the Roumanian border.
Visnitz is on the border between Galicia
and Bukowina, t~hirty-fve miles southwest
of Czernowitz. Efforts of the Germans
to advance along the northern sector,
met with no success, the announcement says.
1t is as follows I'm several sectors south
of Dvinsk, the Germans after artillery pre-
paration, endeavoured to assume the often
sive. They were unsuccessful everywhere.
Over all the front occupied by the army
of General Brusiloff and especially at Rad
z~ivolov, the enemy continued to receive
reinforcements from the French and Italian
fronts. Our offensive in Bukowina contin-
ued. We occupied the villages of Gura-
humora, Straizia and Sarac, west of Radautz
and Niznitz near Kuty. 800 prisoners
were taken. At IL o'clock on Wednesday
night an engagement began along the line
of the Oginski Canal region at Logischin.
The fighting was still in progress on
Thurday evening. Many attempts to cross
the canal by locks and fords failed. In
the course of the fighting the gallant Gen
eral Stegemann was wounded, and Colonel
Berghenstrole died of wounds he had
received.
Paris, June 23rd--The French Official COM
munication issued tonight is as follows: On
the left bank of the Mouse, bombardments
with shells of heavy calibre continued in
the region of Hill 3O4 and Dead Mans Hill
and on our sector of Chattancourt. On the
right bank of the Mouse following violent
artillery preparations last night, the Ger
mans at 8 o'clock this morning made a series
of attacks on a large scale on a front of
about five kilometres (about 81 miles) from
Hill 321 to the east of the Damloup battery.
Attacks with heavy electives followed each
other with extreme stubbornness, notwith-
standing the enormous losses which our
orrto;n. hroc ond mitrai11nnso fro 1nAioto1