The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-16

Petrograd Semi Official Des-
patches Declare czernowltz
Has Been Evacuated BY Aus
trians Alter Heavy Fighting
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TALE OF RUSSIAN BOOTY
CONTINUES GROWING FAST
SIaVs Now Declare That the
Prisoners Taken Since Big
Drive Began Now Total More
Than 10000 Enlisted Men
tA..Ocia.sd Press BY Federal wIrsi..,.)

tAssOciatsd Press BY Federal wirsisss)
r ONDON, June 16-out Of the maze
l. of conflicting reports concerning
the tremendous lighting that is 60.
ing forward on the seven hundred miles
Of Eastern front, but one thing stands
assured. The world has never seen any
thing like Il before. Russia's millions,
armed and equipped as they have not
been since the war began appear to be
stripped for any struggle,
Whether they have taken CzernowitZ,
or have forced the Austriaps to evacu-
ate the city, ps gemi-ofiinial reports
from Petrograd declared Last night, to
be the. case there n nothing definite
known o. yet, the claims of the Slays
being fatly contradieted by the reports
that come ont OF Vienna and Berlin.
Say Czernowttz Ahandoued- . e \, Il
The deapatehes fpdn Pgtf0grad were
made public ~ the semi.oficial Petro-
grad News Agency, as having been re-
ceivied from the front In the Buko-
wilma, yia Bucharest. They asserted
that after heavy fighting the Austrians
had evacuated fCzernowitz, moving
their army westward. .
The Austrian headquarters have an
answer for this statement. They re-
port that the Teuto1ie troops are max.
ing q heroic stand north and, east of the
city, and are successfully resisting the
heaviest of the Russian attacks, repuls-
ing the infantry assaults that the foe
is hurting at them. NeaffKolki, Galicia
they claim to have captured 1900 slavs.
Say Slavs Are Blocked
hn ala
declare that the Teutons are blocking
the Russians in the Lutsk sector Of the
front, where the Russians have been
40 successful Of late. There, declares
Vienna, the Austrians are counter at
tacking with considerable success, and
are entrenching themselves in their new
positions. -
OF the fighting that is believed to be
going on in Galicia there are few re-
ports. Neither side makes claims of gains
in the region around TarnopOl, toward
which city the Russians have been id
vancing for some days. Apparently the
two armies are deadlocked.
Russian Thrusts Vain
On the German end Of the long east
ern line the Russians have been max.
ing vicious thrusts In response to the
recent attacks by the Germans under
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg. For 4
time they appear to have succeeded, but
later reports declare that they have
been driven out Of the trenches they
took earlier in the day.
Won Hlndenburg u again launching
tremendous attacks In the neighborhOod
of the Drina lake and In the region
south of the Dvinsk. So far the at,
tacks have been without material re.
suit, according to the Official reports
from Petfograd. Et@E@
Russian Booty Enormous
In summing up the results of tie
Russian drive TO date Petrograd yester.
day made public the Official figures of
the prisohers taken and the booty cap
tured blythe Slay armies. According
to these figures the hsussians have tax
en- one g9beral, three imanders, 2467
officers, I'VE doctors, aud $780, 900 sold
diers. They. have also taken 1853 can
non, 2G6 machine guns, 130 bomt
throwers and 80 mine throwers.
Upon the Verdun sector, after a lul
of twenty.fout hours in the fighting
during which the Germans ceased theiI
infantry attacks but kept up theil
bombardment of the French forts OF
Thiaumont and souville, the French
yesterday afternoon launched counter
attack against the Teutonic positions
on the southern slopes Of the famous
lie Mort HOmme,
Gallo Attack Succeeds
The attack was q surprise and ae
ccrding to the French Official communi
que issued last night was successful
in that the GallicS troops ousted the
Teutons from several trenches which
they had taken some days ago.
Rome aud Vienna alike indicate II
their reports that the fighting IN the
Tyrol is dying down, The artillery fir
ing continues heavy but the attacks
by the infantry OF both armies hay,
been of minor Importance.
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