Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-07
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BY SZAV FORCES
SOUTH OF BRODY
Six Villages Captured and
More Than 5000 Pris-
Oners Taken.
NOW FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
ON LEFT BANK OF SERETH
Berlin War Office Admits That
It's Troops Are Driven
Back.
TURKS PUT TO FLIGHT
British Pursuing Army Which At
tackled Near Suez
Canal.
TURKS PUT TO FLIGHT
British Pursuing Army Which At
tackled Near Suez
Canal.

LONDON. August Sin Northern
Galicia the Russians have struck ae-
other hard blow ut the Teutonic allis.
and occupied along the Sercth and Gra-.i
berka Rivers, south Of Brody. six viii
lagos and the entire ridge on (which
they are located
Furious fighting marked the en-
gagement. the Russians being forced
in the villages to drive their adver-,
saries from house to house. The Aus
tro-German forces, at last reports, were
bombardng violently their lost posi-
tions.
In the fighting the Russians captured
n reglmcntal commander and 40 other
officers and more than $500 men and
also took numerous machine guns and
bomb throwers
Berlin admits that the Russians have
gained the left bank of the Sereth
River but asserts that the Germans
have made progress against the French
in the Chapitre wood near Verdun and
In mining operations against them i'm
the ArGonnc; that the Russians have
been driven from positions along the
Stokhod River south Of Zarecze, and
that In the Carpathians the Germans
arc still operating successfully
LIQUID FIRE IS USED
IN ATTACK ON BRITISH
Slight advances for the British at
High wood and east OF Poxieres on the
Somme front, and by the French south
west OF. Estrees, south OF the Somme
and to the northwest of the Thiaumont
work, near Verdun, are recorded In the
British and French communications. In
the sector northwest OF Pozieres. (.
Germans. in an attack In which liquid
fire was used forced the British back
along one OF their trenches. but later
the British reGained the ground lost
The Germans are heavily bombard-
ing the Thaumont work and Fleury
positions OF the French
In Asiatic Turkey the Russians re-
port the capture at various places Of
now Turkish positions. In the Kialkit-
CHA River basin positions protected by
five Zines of trenches, were wrestad
from the Turks while south of Erzin-
gan and west OF the village of Ognut.
additional trenches and two heights
were captured.
In the region of Mush and Bitlis the
Turks have assumed the offensive. put
PetroErad says they are being held by
the Russian fire.
III RS FORC.: rO FIEI
LOSING: MANY PRISONERS
The $4,000 Turkish troops operating
OH seven-mile front from the east
against the Suez Canal. also have met
with defeat at the hands of the British
and have been forced to flee. leaving
more than $500 prisoners behiud them,
including some Germans. In addition
the Ottomans suffered heavy casual.
ties. Australian and New Zealand
troops took an important part In the
fighting.
IN the AuStro-italian the.tcr the
Anstrians are heavily bombardins the
Italian line between the Adiage and
upper IsonzS Rivers and the Pasubio
area. while in the Sugana Valley and
the upper Cordevole Valley they launch-
ed infantry attacks against the Ital-
ians. These attacks, according to Rome,
were repulsed.,
Unofficial advices from Saloniki saw
the Serbians have taken from the BuI-
Sarians the village of Rcmli. on the
Macedonian front.