Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-30


thaw put an end to the movement and
the armies settled into another period
of inertia which lasted until the begin 1
ming of June when General Brussiloff,
who had recently been appointed sue
cessor to General Ivanoff as COM
mander of the southern armies, began
the drive which carried the Russian
front forward to the Stokhod and to
Kolomea on the west and overran the
entire province Of Bukowina.
Meanwhile Grand Duke Nicholas
had been justifying the wisdom of his
appointment to the command In the
Caucasus. He reorganlZhd the armies
which had been carrying the struggle
against the Turks with varying sue
cess since the beginning OF the war
and by New Years had started a cam
paign along definite lines. The Turks
were driven back upon Erzerum and
the Russians, on February 16, after
overcoming what appeared to be IN.
surmountable obstacles in the way OF
difficulties mountainous country and
fearful weather conditions, forced the
surrender of Erzerum and scattered
j the Turkish armies. In the succeeding
months they carried the advance be-
yond Mamakhatum fifty miles further
west. On April 10 Trebizond, an i'm
portant port on the Black Sea, capltu..
lated. The more recent capture OF
Beiburt; an important stronghold be
tween Trebizond and Mamakham, fol
lowed. To the southwark the armies
occupied the greater part OF kufdis-
tain including the cities OF Bltlis,
Revanduz, Serdasht, Khanikin and
Kermanshah, constituting front OF
400 miles from the sea southeastwafd
into western Persia.
| General Brussiloff's advance reach
ed it's point of deepest penetration IN
Bukowina, where it pushed along a
total front of 275 miles from the
Kovel- Sarmy railway to Rumanla. Inc
Russian commander cut the forces
under General Pflanzer into pieces ana
showed them to the Carpathlan noun
tains; had General Bothmer tlghtlng
Ion the defensive west OF the Stflpa,
General Won Boehm-E rmol!i hard
pressed before Brody in Gallcla, the
eastern defense of Lemburg, ana gen
Ieral Won Linsingen and Archduke
Ferdinand engaged in life and death
struggle along the Ctokhod oe1ofe
Kovel.
, iOt PRISONERS dSSoluliiS w WIZ ~.
estimates, numbers 100000 officers
and men, and this is still being. IN
creased by thousands and tens OF thou
sands from week to week. 1t is de-
clared that probably an equal number
have been put out of action, counting
1.-The dead and wounded. His booty IN
GUNS and equipment runs into extra
VACANT figures:
prospects point to average crop
conditions. The shortage OF field
hands and consequent curtailment OF
cultivation has been partially. over
come by the employment of prisoners
of war. The high prices of food are
4 due as much to difficulties in trans
portation as to shortage of provisions.
The scarcity of meat for civilian con
sumption is due to the fact that the
soldiers, who before enlistment were
> small consumers, are now receiving
, daily rations of meat. Considerable
benefit is accuing the Russians from
! the captured fields where they are
profiting from the thrift of the Cali
4 clans. One of the first acquisitions
made by General Brussiloff was for
was for hands to harvest the abun-
dal,t crops.
1t is fact widely commented upon
here, in Moscow, Kiev and elsewhere
that the new troops, recently called Ia
the colors, are sturdy men OF good
physique and equal to the best troops
fof the first line