The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-13
Stream Of Steel Flows Westward
Overwhelming All Opposition,
and Adding Thousands To Ever
Growing Total Of Prisoners
RUSSIANS CROSS sTRYPA
RIVER AND MOVE ONWARD
Fighting In Neighborhood Of YER
dun Flares Up Again But Dies
After German Attack East of
MeuSe Proves Unsuccessful
/ tAaSoeiated Press by Federal Wireless,

(AsSociated Press by Federal wireless)
Y 0ND0N, june 10.--The summer
fighting is on in desperate earnest,
49, both east and west. On the west
ern battle fronts, in Flanders and
around Nerdun the struggle still keeps
to its character of trench, warfare, but
on the eastern front, where the Rus
SLAMS are hammering back the Teutonic
armies, the great bodies of troops are
moving more freely, and covering wider
spaces Of ground.
In the reports from Petrograd last
night, this was sufficiently indicated.
These dispatches told of the gigantic
movement under way by the Russians
against the Austriahs who have again
Eppealed for assistance 10 Berlin. Re
ports declare that they have not ap
pealOd in vain and that the Emperor
wilhelm has ordered strong forces to
the assistance of his ally.
Troop Movements Rumored
Once again rumOTs of heavy troop
movements are coming out of Amstcr-
dem and other Dutch centers, but so
far they have not been verified, md
there has been no sign of q let up in
the lighting on the western front.
Military experts in this "city and
Paris unite in declaring that Germany
will find it difficult to send many men
to the Galcian and Poland fronts, in
sisting that she has her hands full on
the West
Drive Growing -Sargor
The Russian drive is assuming lar
ger proportions daily. The operations
under the direction of General BruS-
: siloff clude more than $50 miles of
front, stretching from the bloody
Pripct marshes. almost to the Crown
land OF BukowiHa, and the Rumanian
frontier in the south. And every
whore the Slav offensive is crushing
the defensive of the Austrians.
| On one sector of the advance, ac-
ccrding to statements out of the Mus
eovite capitol, the Russians have
stretch of nincty.fOur miles, pushing
back the Austrians more than thirt,
seven miles, and gaining additional
prisoners and munitions us they adran.
ced.
Prisoners Total $4,000
Pctrograd last night issued an official
statement giving the number of Aus
trian and German prisoners taken sine"
the big drive began steamrOlling the
Austrians. In this statement the mum.
Der or officers taken is given as ll43,
and the total number of unwounded
prisoners as close to 10000 officers and
men.
The Sluv onrush has carried the
"dvnncc guards we'll over the Stlipn
river. They have again reached and
taken their old positions along the
> ZIOta and Lipa Rivers, occupying tho
fortified positions aba ndoncd by the
- Austrians, and taking large quantities
Ut booty of all sorts, including large
number of guns,
Moving On Railroad
East Of Lutsk, where the ccntcr of
the Russian attnck seems to be CON
cent rated, the SlaVs uFe thrusting at
, the AustTians from the north, and Gen,
rral BrusEilOff 5 troops are reported to
have made additional gains of an i'm
ru"taRt nature in the direction of the
t river Styr, and along the kOVel and
0 EuNnO railroad, one Of the strategic
y reads in that section 81 the thoatcr of
n war.
Upon the western front there have
s been but minor attacks in the neigh
borhood of Nerdun, following a general
G attack launched by the Crown Prince
Yesterday morning This attempt is re
ported by Paris to have failed utterly
Under the bombardmem of the French
guns and the combined rifle and ma
: chine gun fire. In enc place only die
the TeutOns make an impression on the
French lines. This was near the farm
e, of Thiaumont directly north of NerduI
IS "itv, and some seven miles away
I, Everywhere else the Germans fell bacl
Ie 10 their own trenches, having suffered
ID heavily.
Id Teuton Attack Pauses
n. After this effort the Germans up
pcared to be resting, although the can
nonade from their heavy guns continue
n without a break during the remainde
v of the day, and well into the night.
On the left bank of the Meuse Il fey
attempts of the Teuton infantry wer
r. easily driven back by French curtain
st Of fire, and there also the infantry at
o. saults ceased for the time being.
Italians Fall Back
- Apparently the Austrians are not to
e busy with the Russians to be ahlN t
= resume their offensive against the ita
inns, for last night Rome reported tha'
iP owing to the pressure of the Austria
Il artillery on some sectors Of the ron
TO east Of Asiago, and in the eastern eau
al pomulo valley, the Italians have bee
forced to fall back into new positions.