The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-19
Attacks BrusiIOn's Centre.

\ counter blow dealt ia Gen. E-tiS.-
loff : centre in the .gion between Luz,
and kovel. where progress for the Rus
slams is now essential To- secure tn,
southern wing against a flank at'a.l
and development. is reported by the Ger
man War piiiCc. In this sector. Enr.in
asserts. 3,ii6 Russian soldiers and eleven
officers were captured. as well as som"
cannon and ten machine guns, 'hi>
constitutes the most substantial suCccs g
thus far attained ~ the Teu;ons IN thoir
efforts 10 stem the Muscovite tide.
To-day's German official report fuithsr
reports the repulsc Of Russian atta"1S
north of przewlokd, about seven mile
north of Buczacz.
Thus the days official reports reveal
actual Russian progress only IN AZ"
B~ukowina. by the capture Of Is capita!
with It's strategically important bridge
head. The Vienna, Berlin ana PetvogriI
reports all Indicate hat the Teuton lines
north of BuczacZ. northwest of Tarntpol
and in central NOlhynia are still intact.
The OMciaI Reports.
TIE Russian official statement fol-
lows:
CA the front If Gen. BrusiIons
army the enemy maintains his resist
ance. maxim. repeated counter attacks,
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pressing the enemy more closely IN
various directions and taking prisoners
and booty.
Yesterday. at 1 o'clock in the after-
noon. Gen. lcchuitzkyis troops cap
tured by assault the brid:ehead At
C~zcrnowitz on the left bank of tn"
Pruth. After desperate fighting for
the passage of the river. where tine
enemy had destroyed the bridges, we
occupied c~zernowitz.
our troops are pursuing the enemy.
who is retreating in the direction IT
the Carpathian passes. In the
course OF the capture Of the bridge
head We took more than 1000 pris-
ouers and also seized gun IN tz-rno,
WIZ.
The following details have been re-
ceiNed of the fighting ON the rest OF
the front The troops of Gen. kale-
dimes nave repulsed desperate enemy
counter attacks. in which German
troops from the French front were
engaged In the region of the village
of ,iadomitChe, IN the ~ r, u hot
engagement occurred Thus far the
German and Austrian prisoners
amount to seventy officers and 1000
men and We have also taken eight
machine guns.
The Germans furiously attacked the
kllltet VI ~ lll w ''' ~ 80 ''''N
of the Stokhod. We Iepulsed the at
tack, despite the fire Of the encmy's
armored train. Our cossacks, headed
by their colonel, Smirnof, charged
twice ON the flank against the enemy
forces which had assumed the often
sive. The cossacks captured hNe
machine guns. put "A great number or
Germans to the sword and the others
IL disordcrly flight. and took AS pris-
oners two officers and many German
soldiers.
The latest reports Of the fighting
from the 9Th to the l,th show that
Gen. Kaledines had taken as prisoners
I.309 officers. ten surgeons and 10000
men and eighty-three guns. 236 ma
chine guns and an enormous quantity
of material,
In the region of the right bank of
the Strypa River, north of Buczacz,
the enemy took the offensive, but be-
ing received by our concentrated fire
~retreated to his trenches,
ON the northern front In the forest
region and on the Dwina front there
has been violent artillery fire on vari-
Gus sectors. Our artillery seriously
damaged the enemy trenches and
works fronting our Dwinsk positions
and southwest of Lake NarocZ,
The Austrian Official statement fol
lows:
Our troops occupying the tzerno-
WITT b~ridgehead yesterday were COM
PEELED to retire before the concentrated
fire OF a greatly superior enemy, Dur
Ing the night the enemy forced the
passage OF the Pruth at various points
and entered Czernowitz. We evacu-
ated the town.
In eastern Galicia the situation is