The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-04
Field Marshal Won Linsengen Re-
ported Removing Stores Pre-
paratory To EVacuating Defen-
ses Of koveI, Under Blows
FORCED TO ABANDON HIS r.
VLADIMIR-V0LYNSK LINE
Shattering Attacks Get Home On
Both Wings OF Won Bothmer's
Retreating Armies, While Brit
ish and French Fight At Somme
Associated Press by Federal wireless,

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wirslessD
r ONDON, August News from the
Eastern front indicates that the
- German armies defending Kovel
have met with a disaster. Reports
say that the roads leading TO that
town are "black with fleeing Teutonic
troops, and other accounts tell, of the
efforts the German commanders are
making to save as much as possible Of
the equipment and munitions which
had been stored there ready for use in
case an offensive against the Russians
could be successfully begun.
The Austrians between the River
Lipa and the Dneister are also in
desperate plight. Harassed on both
TANKS by the Russians under General
BrussilOf, and driven back in their
center, there is apparently but one
thing left for them to do, retreat rs
fast and as far as they can before the
encroaching Slav nippers close in upon
them and they find their road to Lem
berg hopclessly closed in their face.
reutons Hold Too Long
Even this will not save them, de.
clare military critics who have been
Eastern theater. These men, some of
the most prominent in France and
England, declare that General Won
8othmer and his Heutcnants have held
VI too long, in the hope of saving Lem
berg and KOvel, and that they are
doomed to capture or extinction. Rome
reports that Won Bothmcr is almost en-
velOped, and his fate sealed. .,.... .,.
Germany is unable to detach any
more men to assist Won BOthmer and
the Austrians are declared to be so
thoroughly occupied in sothsr,l fields,
particularly in the italian theater, that
they can only watch the retreat of
their armies and hope the Russian
command will make some mistake.
Brussilof Forging Ahead
But Brussiloff is wasting no time in
mistakes, apparently The official ac-
launched columns of Cossack cavalry
around the tanks of Won Bothmer's
armies and had succeeded in cutting
the Delatyn Lemberg railroad, at the
ame time severing the Brody l.emberg
line, the backbone Of the Teutonic pc.
sitions defending Lemberg. They are
said to be nearing Busk, on the oppo-
site side of the Lipa river.
South of Kovel, and nearer to the
Galician border, the Russians have
forced the Germans to eVacuate Vladi.
mir Volynsk. This is one of the i'm
pOrtant junction points on the railroad
from Sokal, in Galicia, and Kovel, and
gives the Russians yet another point OF
approach to the last named city.
In the West the situation has quiet.
ed down for the time, apparently to
bring up additional munitions and
men. North of the river d 'Ancre, in
the vicinity of BeaucOurt, the Germans
Yesterday attempted to launch an Of
fcnsivc, but the attack broke down
under the fire of the British troops and
guns.
Repeated Offensives Beaten
The attempt was repeated several
times and each time the assailants were
repulsed. North of Bazentin lie Petit
The Germans attacked again and again,
but were defeated and forced to fall
back into their own trenches without
having made any gains. al
Berlin reported that the British
forces which had penetrated the Ger.
man positions west of Foureaux wood
had been driven out again with heavy
losses, and the official statements of the
fighting on the Somme, issued by the
general staff, asserted that the An.
glo French Allies had lost $50, 900 men
in their big offensive,
In the East, added the statement,
the "enemy is suffering huc, loss,
and is eXhausting himself against the
German line on the Stokhod river,
his attacks being fruitless."