Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-12
Tears Two Huge Rents and
Inflict Terrible Loss
to Foes.
LEMBERG is MENACED
Muscovite1 Charge Over Heaps Of
Dead Austrians and Hungarians-
Latter Abandon Wounded.

London, June 1.-THE complete
rout of the Austrian armies near
Czernowitz was announced here TO-
day by the Russian embassy.
Two entire divisions, with all their
generals, artillery, and ammunition,
were captured.
The Russians are in full pursuit,
the Cossacks overrunning the terri
tory at the rear of the fleeing armies.
Petrograd, June l2-The Russians
in Volhynia and Galacia have torn
two huge rents in the Austrian front
and inflicted loss in men 50 heavy
that it must be counted ga 9 step
toward the victorious teri on Of
the war,
In some parts of the battl' the
Austrians were driven back,r such
disorder that they were comp q to
abandon large numbers of W. 1ded
men. Thousands Of prisoners we're
rounded up by the cavalry which has
got into the Austrian lines of COM
munication. Whole regiments are said
to have surrendered en- masse.
The number of slain probably reach
ed very large proportions, in conse-
ouence of the thoroughness OF the
Russian. artillery preparations.
Some sections of trenches are said
to have been transformed into mush
of crumbled concrete, burst sand bags
splintered beams, mixed with mutilat-
ed corpses and fragments of flesh. At
such points not defender was left
who had enough life to offer any re-
sistance.
The Russians charged over heaps
of dead foes. The most moderate es-
innate of the enemy's losses is 15O,-
600, and some estimate make it two
thirds greater. At the minimum CON-
putation the IAustrians have lost at
least a quarter. of the total force
they had: on. this front. "a
London, June PA Central News
Dispatch from Bucharest states that
the governor of Lemberg, Galicia, has
been ordered by the AustroHun-
garian.military authorities to prepare
to euacuate the city.
Petrograd, June 12--The text. OF
the Russian official statement follows:
"The fierce attacks of our troops
are throwing into our hands thou
sands upon thousands of prisoners
and booty of all kinds. the exact es-
timation of which is as yet impossible.
"For instance, in single sector on
the enemy front we captured 2l
searchlights, two, conveys, 20 field
kitchens, AZ trains of machine guns,
10000 pools of barbed wire, IA pood
is equivalent to 36 pounds), 1000
concrete plank{, 100000 cubes OF
convrete 10000 poods of coal, enorm'
Gus depots of amanition and quantl-
ties of arms and other material.
"In another sector we captured 30
600 rifle cartridges, 800 boxes of ma
chine gun cartridges, 200 boxes OF
hand grenades, 1000 rifles, four ma
chine guns, two range finders and a
Norton portable pump for the extra
ton of drinking water.
"The capture of such enormous war
materials, prepared by the enemy for
various operations, affords proof Of
how opportune was our coup.
During Saturdays fighting we took
as prisoners ne general 400 officers
and 35,l0O soldiers. We also captured
80 guns, Is machine guns and 5 bomb
throwers. This makes the total tro-
phies in the recent operations one
general l,649 officers and more than
100000 soldiers, and 124 guns, 18C
machine guns and So bomb throwers.