The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-16
London Hears sIavs Have Defeat.
ed Austrians Badly In Bukowi.
ma, But Berlin Claims Report Is
Unfcuhded and Gar Beaten
cAlNA1lANs AT WESTERN ..s. -, g,
y FRONT MAKE MORE GAINS
Entente Allies IL Levant Said TO
Have Begun Great Offensive
To- Cooperate With Forces Of
Gar Hammering At Teutons

tAssoeiated Press b. Federal Wireiess.l
r oNDoN June i4--Beating back the
IL Austriahsi from their positions ON
- the Dneister liver in the Buko.
wilma, where they have captured the i'm.
portant towns of Yale Szcsyky and
Horodenka, the Russians under General
Brussiiof are reported to be continuing
their advance in the East while at the
Western and Balkan fronts the Allies
are preparing to launch a big drive in
cooperation. -'.,, %. ~.
At the Western front the Canadians
have made. SUCCESSFUL attacks against
the German lines near Ypfes, where
more than $50 yards Of Teuton trenches
have fallen into the hands of the Brit
ish forces, after one of the most des-
Perate assaults recently made around
that battle-raked city.
Russians Are Hurled Back
Berlin, however, has q different story
to tell Of the Russian advance. Ac.
cording to her accounting the fighting
at. the, Eastern front has been largely
her way. Aided by German troops, say
the Berlin dispatches, the Russians have
been checked by furious attacks of the
Austrian armies under General PfianZer.
aud hurled back from the vicinity of
Czernowitz, and elsewhere in the
Northern sectors of the lines in the
. Bukowina.
Here, says, Berlin, the Teutonic forces
have succeeded in capturing 1900 Rus
sian prisoners, and q number of ma
chine guns and other booty, with the
result Of completing foiling the Slav
plans, for the time being in this district.
.Teutpns Reported In Flight p. -
Other accounts, those from Petroerad
and Bucharest, tell a radically different
story. These accounts say that the Rus.
sian steam rollero Is adding daily to
the grouad taken from the Austrians
and Germans, who are reported to be
in full fight from their positions on
the Dneister rivers, falling back toward
the Pruth river lines, where for SO
many months the fercest fighting of the
Eastern battlefront took place day aft.
er day.
In the vicinity of Tarnopol, however,
the Russians admit having sustained a
check in their efforts to advance once
more upon the city of Lemberg, taken
by them in the early days of the war
and lost in the great Teutonic drive
that sent the Gar g armies reeling back
from the Carpathians. In this district,
the Austrian reports say, the Teutons
have taken a number of important Slav
advance positions.
Allies Move In Balkans
At the Balkan front the long expect.
ed allied drive Is said to have begun, or
TO be on the verge of starting. Ger
tain 1t is that thousands Of French and
British troops, aided by the reorganized
Serbian army, have been gathered near
Salonika, and huge masses of mum.
tions of all kinds have been sent to
that port, for use in the big offensive.
The Allies have Also launched a nav
al attack, believed to be part of the pro-
JectSd land attack. While the troops
are moving toward the Bulgarian Dor
der the Entente warships are lombard
ing the Albanian coast line, from the
Gulf OF Enos to the. bay of Largos.
From Largos to .Dedeaghatch the Gre
has been remarkably heavy, and the
population of the cities are said to
be fleeing into the interior.
More German Gains Made
Near Verdun the Germans made ad-
ditiondl gains yesterday, although of a
minor mature, according to the despat-
ches ffom Paris. A great concerted
attack was launched early in the day,
resulting i'm the capture of some ad.
vaneed sFrench positions in the neigh
borhood of Thiaumont farm. In other
sectors of the Battlefield the attackers
were thrown back into their own posi-
tons with heavy losses. The bombard
ment 81 Fort de Souville and Fort de
TaVanhes, in the second line of defen.
SEES OF Verdun, continues with undated
fury, but without results.
The lighting around Ypres, in which
the Canadians have again distinguish.
ed themselves, has been marked by
heavy losses on both sides, but the re-
suits have been "most satisfactory. -
according to dispatches from the Bri.
fish headquarters in the field.
Positions Are Recaptured
The positions taken by the Canadians
are the same that were captured by the
Germans some weeks ago. The British,
however, now say that they have been
consolidated by the Canadians and are
heinz held firmly despite heavy coun-
ter-attacks and a tremendous lombard
mont from the heavy guns of the leu
tons.
At the Italian front, Rome reports
successive gains by tho Latin legions.
The Austrian positions in the vicinity