The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-12
On From StanisIau in Fastest
Campaign of War.
AuStrO- Germans Offered Only
Weak Resistance.
BELIEVE ARMIES DEMORALIzED
Meanwhile Italy Making Rec
ord Rush For Trieste.
Much Activity in France, Allies
Claiming Gains.

London, Aug. 1.-THE advance
guard of the Russian force that occu-
pied Stanislau pressed on two miles
northeast of the city and crossed the
river zlota Bistritza, Is miles south of
Haltiz. according to Petrograd dis
patches today.
The Austro-Germans offered but
weak resistance and then continued
their retreat north. Several guns were
abandoned by the enemy in their re-
treat from the z1ota Bistritza.
Two separate Russian forces are
now converging on Halitz, the imme-
diate objective of General Letitchsky
in his drive against Lemberg. The
first, moving eastward along the north
bank of the Dneister, is less than
twenty miles from Halitz. The second,
operating south of the Dneister, is
composed of the detachments that
took Stanislau.
Advance 20 Miles in Four Days.
There Is no indication in dispatches
from either Petrograd, Berlin or
Vienna that the Russian advance, the
most rapid made by any army since
the Austro- Balkan cam
paign, has even been slowed up. In
four days The Slavs have progressed
twenty miles. and in the fighting about
Stanislau alone they have taken nearly
twenty villages and towns.
Battling over much more difficult
country, the Italians have scored s11c-
cesses or equal importance in their
southWard swing toward Trieste The
news from both Petrograd and Rome
suggests that the Decentralization of
| the Austrian armies may be more
Gated -N-
No official statement has been made
public thus far of the activities in
the Balkans reported from Paris YES
| terday.
Cneck Germans ON Somme
Paris Aug. IA vigorous attack
north of Hem Woods on the Somme
front was undertaken last night by
the Germans The war office state
ment of today says the assault was
| checked. The Germans sustained an
preciable losses in their attack.
South of the Somme after a violent
bombardment the Germans attacked
La Maisonsette. but the French cur
| tain of fire prevented the assaultine
waves of infantry from debouchine
During the night the French organized
their new positions north of the river
| Accommodating parties entered the
! wood east of Hem station, where nu-
merous bodies of Germans were found
! On the Verdun front two German
attacks in the vicinity of FIeury were
repulsed. The artillery was active ir
the region of Vaux, Chapitre and
! Chenois
| Heavy Attack at Pozieres.
London, Aug. IA strong infantry
attack was delivered last night by the
| Germans on the Somme front north Of
Pozieres According to an announce
ment from the war office today thi:
attack was repulsed with heavy losse.
to the Germans
The announcement follows:
'The enemy renewed his efforts tt
recapture trenches we lately wreste(
from him on the high ground north O.
Pozieres by delivering a strong infan
try attack yesterday evening supported
by heavy artillery fire. This was re
pulsed with heavy loss. and no wher'
did he succeed in piercing our posi-
| tions.
Sandstone Impedes Turks.
| London, Aug. 12.-The admission il
made in a telegram received here to
day from Constantinople that th'
Turks were compelled to fall back aft
er the recent battles with the British
| (ContinCed on Page TwoD