The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-01
Driven Back Beyond Turiga River
Teutons Are Compelled To Eva
cuate Positions Defending Inn
portant Railroad Junction Town
BERLIN ALSO REPORTS
RETREAT At EAST FRONT
British Announce That They Have
Made Steady Gains In Their
Uphill Fight To Gain Ground
In Direction Of Bapaume
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-.ARIS. July 3O.-Vienna has Of
r"d fcially admitted another great
- defeat at the hands Of the Rus
sianS. An an officIal statement lssueu
by The. General staff at Vienna last
night, the report that the Russians had
driven the Teutonic troops back across
the Turiga river on the Kovel. Rovno
railroad line was confirmed Kovel is
on the Turiga river. The statement
says in part;
{ After repulsing series Of fierce
attacks by the Russian troops between
the Turiga and the Kovel. Rovno rail
road line, our troops fell back across
the river where they took up fresh posi-
tiops.
Berlin also admitted heavy losses al
the east front. In a statement issued
yesterday afternoon the German gov.
eminent said that the Slavs had sue
eeeded in penetrating the German lines
in the region Of Tristyn, causing the
Germans to abandon their advanced
positions west of Lutsk. A German
countcr-attack, it is added, halted the
Russian advance.
Russians Take Brody
North of Brody, which the Russian,
have taken, in their advance along tn,
Rovno-Lembcrg railroad, the Germans
report having captured 1000 prisoners
The Petrograd account of the fight
ing in this sector declares ahat tho
Teutons have been driven back alone
the KoVel. Adjitche line, and as far
south sss Brody, and that 400 officers
and 2o0oeB men have been taken pris.
oners by the men under the command
of General Brussiloff. South of tn,
Dneister river the troops commanded
by General Letchitsky have smashed
through the Austrians for marked gains
in the direction of Stanislau, one Of the
important towns still in Teutonic hands
in that section of Galicia.
Rumania Abandons Turkey
The political effect of the continued
Russian success in the sectors south of
the Pnpet marshes is already making
itself plain. Roumania has broken of
ell negotiations with Turkey looking
to an exchange of supplies. These ne
gotiations have been under way for
some months, and at one time il
seemed as though Rumania intended to
agree to the terms proposed by the
Ottoman Empire which would have
aligned her with the Central Powers.
In the west the Germans and the
Allies are still in a death grip north
and south of the Somme. The pressure
of the Allies is becoming more and
more marked, say dispatches from
that front, and the German high com
nIand has been shifting more troops
from Verdun to hold the rushes of the
British "Tommies.
British Consolidating
Sir Douglas Haig, while keeping up
the pressure along the ninety miles of
the front he is guarding, continues to
devote most Of his energy in the neigh
borhood of the SOmme in consolidating
the positions he has won from the
enemy, This means, it is asserted by
expert observers, that the British are
preparing for another "big push, "
and the Germans are reported to be
launching desperate counter attacks
against the most recently captured
British posts in Delville Wood and
along the Bapaume road out of Pc
zieres.
In this latter sector the British re.
port steady and important gains in
the direction of lBapaume. They are
advancing along the rising ground to
the. north and east, battering the Ger.
mans with their new mortars. Here
they have. encountered German infan,
try battalions which have been recent
ly Engaged at Verdun.
At VermandOvillers south of the
Somme, two attempts at attack were
made by tthe Germans, say the French
official reports, and both were repulsed
with heavy loss TO the attackers.
On the battlefelds of the river Mouse
the fighting had dwindled to mere ar
tillery exchanges, with minor infantry
attacks, easily repulsed by the French
troops. The French claim progress near
ThiaumoDt.