The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-20
More Than 5000 Captives Fall Into Hands of Attackers Ally of Austria Resists Strongly on Stripa and Bat tie Near LutSk FavorS Ger mans.

Petrograd, June 2O.-In Volhynia,
 Gen. Brusiloff's troops are fighting their way forward on a wide front be- tween the Styr and the Bug, having covered more than half the distance
 between the two and being within twenty-five miles of the latter river;
 further south they are on the Cali
 elan frontier within a few miles of,
 Brody, and in Bukowina, they have crossed the twelve-rnile strip of terri
 tory between the Pruth and the Ser
 eth, to the south, and are driving Gen.
 Pfanzer's army back into the Car
 pathian Mountains.
 These are the outstanding features
 of today's official bulletin on the cam
 paign. Il In addition, the report car ries the information that about 5000
 more prisoners and many guns and
 machine guns have been taken. The
 battle line has now advanced an av- craze of more than twenty-five miles
 along the entire southern front, eX-
 cept on the Upper Stripa and just west of Tarnopol, where the Austrian and German troops are still resisting
 stubborn1y.
 "In the region of Korytnftzky, southeast of Sviniukhi (ten miles southeast of -Lokatch), one of our va liant regiments launched a counter at tack and put the enemy to flight. Meanwhile section of our light bat
 
 nonaded the fugitives pointb1ank. We took in this action three officers, 100 soldiers and four machine guns. East of Gorochoff (ten miles due south of Sviniukhi) we seized, after a desper- ate resistance, wood near the Vil- lage of Bojeff, taking 1000 prisoners and four machine guns.
 During attacks in the region on the southern edge of. Radzivilof the enemy received our troops with jets of Iiduid fire. We took in this re- zion yesterday 1,8OO prisoners. (Rad- ziviloff is on the IGalician frontier, on the railroad from Rovno and Dubno
 to Len1berg, about five miles east of Brody.)
 "Our troops, having occupied Czernowitz and crossed the Pruth at many places, are advancing energet- l icaIly toward the River Sereth. CThis River Sereth must not be confused with the River Sereth in Galicia, | which is we'll inside the Russian lines
 The Sereth in Bukowina is about 12 l miles south of the Pruth and flows parallel to it.)
 It is the unanimous opinion here Ithat the Austrian retirement has | reached a point where they must eitZ1er make a stand or the entire
 German and Austrian army. in the east must soon begin to fall back be-
 
 retreat of the Austrian centre west of
 Tarnopo1. it is considered, caRnot be long delayed The official bulletin says:
 con tn front of Gen. Brusi1offs s armies the enemy tried by counter attacks to arrest our advance toward Lemberg. In the region of the village of Rogovitch, southeast of the village of fLokatchi, six versts (about four | nniles) south of the main road from Lutsk to Vladimir -Volhynsl<i, the Austrians in mass formation attacked our units and, breaking through one sector of the fighting front, captured l three guns belonging to a battery which resisted bravely to the last | cartridge. On receiving reinforce ments we overthrow the enemy, re- capturing one gun and taking 300 prisoners and two machine guns. 1 (Lokatchi is about 30 miles west of LutsEs and 25 miles east of the Bug.) Gen. Letchitzky made prisoner 49 officers and more than 1, 500 men, and captured near the town ten guns. In
 the course of the pursuit of the enc
 my we took prisoner near the Village
 of Koezurmare (eight miles south of Czernowitzl 400 soldiers and captured