Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-20
BUKOW|NA CAPITAL
ALMOST DESTROYED
BY RUSSIAN SHELLS
Fierce Battle Raging for Pos
session of Czernowitz' and
Austrian Forces Are Being
Easily EnveIOped
BY Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Rus
sian drive in Volhynia, Gaiicia and
Bukowna shows little slackening in
power. although the progress of General
Brusiloff's armies apparently is much
less rapid than in the early stages OF
the campaign.
From the Nolhynian triangle fortress
es the Russians have thrust sharply to
the west and southwest. In the former
direction they are battering on the Aus
trian defense line along the Styr and the
Stokhod, not more than thirty miles
from Kovel the important railway juno
ton essential to close connection be-
tween the southern Teutonic armies and
those to the north.
\ Petrograd dispatch says that Ger
nowitz, has been almost completely de-
stroyed in the fierce battle that has been
raging there, and the Austrian forces
are being fast enveloped by Russian
troops, which are cutting them off from
their Bukowina army, according to a
telegram to the Russky Invalid
In the latter direction they have scor-
ed new progress and now are close to
the Galician border, pushing down the
railway from Du5no. The current Rus
sian official statement reports the occu-
patton of Radzilowo less than ten miles
from Brody, across the frontier line.
and approximately sixty miles northeast
of Lemberg, the Galician capital, the
Russian objective in this drive.
Berlin records the participation of
German troops in the fighting against
the Russians, reporting General Won
Linsingen's forces engaged in the Stok-
hod-Styr sector and others under Gen.
eral Count Won Bothmer taking part in
the battles north of Przewolka.
On the western front, the fighting at
Verdun has again been left to the artil-
lery for the most part. The Germans
are violently Smelling French positions
ir the Dead Man hill section and Incl
dentally have made hand grenade at
lacks in this vicinity which Paris de-
clares were futile.
Rome announces an important success
northeast of ASiago, in the Trentino,
where several positions at the head of
the FrenZela valley were captured. vi
emma reports the failure of Italian at
tacks in the Dolomites section. Air
men have been unusually active on the
various fronts
Austrian aviators raided Padu and
other Italian towns nearby; German
machines have dropped bombs freely on
several points of military Importance
along the western front, including Bar
de Due and Dunkirk, and a French air
SQUADRON has bombarded various rail-
road stations behind the German lines.
Italian aeroplanes also have been busy,
one squadron of 81 machines dropping
projectiles on Austrian encampments
north of Asiago.
Constantinople announces the diSor
derby retreat of British forces which
were defeated i'm attempting to cross
the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia,
and the driving back of Russian troops
which appeared on the Persian frontier
near Bana.
An attack by three torpedo boats OF
the entente allies on the Austrian sea-
pert of Parenzo, in lstria, was fall
ure. according to Vienna, Austrian coast
batteries and aeroplanes driving off the
hostile craft.