The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-12
Russian Troops Reach Out
skirts of Bukowina
Capital
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
BY WAR OFFICE
Communication Last Night
Tells Of Great Amount
Of Booty Taken

5 Petrograd. June l2.-Russian troop
yesterday approached the outskirts o
Czernowitz, the war office announced to
day.
The official communication issued last
night told of tremendous booty taken il
the rapid advance. 1t reads as follows:
Our offensive in yolhynia, Galicia anc
Bukowina obtained fresh success yester.
day. The enemy armies continue tc
suffer enormous losses in prisoners alone
"The fierce attacks of our troops are
throwing into our hands thousands upon
thousands of prisoners and booty of all
kinds, the exact estimation of which is
as yet impossible.
For instance, in single sector on the
enemy front, we captured 81 searchlights,
? conveys, % field kitchens, AZ trains Of
machine guns, 10000 pools of barbed
wire Ia pood is equivalent to 36 poundsl
1000 concentre planks, 100000 cubes of
concrete, 10000 pools of coal, enormous
depots of ammunition and quantities Of
arms and other material
| 'In another sector We captured 10000
rifle cartridges, 300 boxes of machine gun
cartridges, 200 boxes Of hand grenades,
Loo usable rifles, four machine guns, 2
range finders, and Norton portable
pump for the extraction of drinking
water
"The capture of such enormous war
materials prepared by the enemy for va.
rious operations affords proof OF how
opportune was our coup against the en-
Iemy,
During yesterdays fighting, we took
as prisoners | eleneral, 400 officers and
IS. 100 soldiers; we also captured 80 guns,
l3 machine guns and bomb throwers.
This makes the total trophies in the re-
cent operations, ! general, l,64o officers,
and more than 100000 soldiers, and l24
guns, $50 machine guns, and IS bomb
throwers.
Near Rojitche, on the Styr near Lutsk,
the Germans attempted to render assist
ance to the Austrians, but by our infan.
try attack delivered under cover Of heavy
artillery they were dislodged from the
town, losing over 1000 prisoners, two
guns and some machine guns. Our troops
pursued the retreating Germans.
Our forces operating in the region of
Dubno tone of the fortresses comprising |
the Volhynian trianglel captured the |
town and the fort and are on the enemy's /
heels. Some Russian detachments cross
ing the Ikwa river have developed their |
offensive. A part of the Russians occu-
pied the region of the village of Danny /
dovka, on the MyInoff point of support,
forcing the enemy to surrender. Besides
iislodging the enemy from his position
north of Boutchatchie, we made many
prisoners there and also took great
quantity of arms.
eve overthrow the enemy on the
stripa Near Ossovitzie, north of Bout
one of our regiments captured a
complete battery of four ten-centimeter
motors.
despite the enemy's desperate resist
,nce, his violent flank and curtain fire.
ogether with the explosion of mines,
ZEN Teehitskyn's troops captured an en-
my position south of Dobronovtze, 90
-ersts northeast of Czernowitz tBuko-
vina) In this region alone we took as
prisoners one general, 347 officers and
5000 men, and captured ten guns and at
he time this report is dispatched pris.
ners are still coming in.
Southeast of Zale Szozyky, by an en-
rgetic coup we overthrow the enemy. :
rho retreated The enemy blew up the
7ourkoutz railway station. Turkoman :
avalry charged the retreating cavalry
nd turned his rear into a disorderly !,
out.
an attempts to save the situation, the
nemy at many places made furious !
- i / 2
aturday in the region of Semki, east
Kolki, numerically superior forces at :
acked our advanced elements and under =
over of a concentration of their fire
breed them back over the Styr. But =
he same day we arrested all Interior q
evelopments of this offense. :
"The enemy is resisting with special > :
operation in the region of Trogovitsy :,
the Styr. south Of Lutzk. where he is y
ghting with sanguinary fury. y
"The total results of the violent at n
Icks of our troops carried out from the y
n to the 10th without giving the enemy =
moments respite. place in strong relief
lie fact that they have forced the en- g
nys organized lines on the vast front L
ON the wooded region of southwest "
ussia TO the Rumanian frontier. M
Caucasus region-The Turks made re- A
'ated attacks on our positions in the
atana region, but were repulsed with
.aVy losses, abandoning ia front Of our
enches hundreds Of dead. In the direc-
Dn of Gumessan. we have occupied first VI
ie enemy trenches. In the direction Of
rberkr, We are advancing and have
ade prisoners aud captured boxes of 81,
ammunition" =.