The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07
VAST ARMIES OF RUSSIANS SWEEP 0N INTO GAL|CIA
Bayonet Every German In One Village Because Liquid
 Fire Was Used.
HALF MILLION FOES
 NOW OUT OF ACTION
Whole Battery Captured at One POint-SWim River to
 Make Prisoners.

Petrograd, July 7-Gen. Brusiloff's great flank movement up the right
 bank of the Dnister in Southern Ga
 licia is still pushing forward. accord
 ing to last nights official report.
 While this advance continues on the
 entire front between the Dniester and
 the Carpathians, the official report
 carries news of further success by the
 Russians in Northern Volhynia
 toward Kowal and the continuation of :. the attack on the Bavarian lines in the north near the Niemen.
 N The total capture of prisoners dur ing the day on the whole front is re- sportede to be more than 10000 officers
 and men.
 "South of the Pinsk marshes we
 had important new successes yester-
 day" the report states. In the region of Kostooukhovkka (northwest of l lCnrtorysk) we captured an entire xeffemy battery and took prisoners 22 |xofdcers and $50 soldiers. Northwest kof Baznitchi, on the Styr north of iKolki, we yesterday captured two tednnon. three machine guns and 2.30O ]Hjfisoners. North of Stegroutziatine 'I CA RtuNCu 0nCAly U ChSACo dA0 tOOh iHffore than 300 prisoners and one ma k31iine gun.
 N Eenemy Counter Attacks Vain. z "Between>the Styr and the Stokhod, Invest of Sokul and southward. the f enemy slAnnched vain counter at ftacks under <he protection of artil- h1ery.
 I "In Galicia, after intense artillery
 preparation. we took an energetic of { 1ensive west of the lower Stripa and | on the right bank of the Dhiester. tThe enemy was defeated and driven z back Our troops are approaching i the koropiec Ga tributary of the IDniester, parallel to the Stripa. and I'll miles further west) and the Sod- rhodolek Ca southern tributary, oppo- tsdte an1sa IKfe waest Of the Koropiec) 1 rivers. We took here yesterday nearly {: [, 900 prisoners and Il machine guns. .sIn an attack .on the village of !; vertniki the Germans received our
 troops with liquid fire. Owing to { their conduct we put all the Germans ' to the bayonet when we captured the Lvillage We took prisoners in this l. t.region more than 1000 men. At one 'point in this action our Crimean Tar I tars charged the enemy and put him ' to night.
 sCossacks Swim River.
 .sYesterday a band of 20 Cossacks swam the Dniester near Dodine and
 took prisoners on the right bank five 1 officers and 10S soldiers, capturing a 1 cannony
 Last nights official bulletin on the !, Dniester campaign, announcing the ! cutting of the Korosmezo- Delatyn rail- 1, road south of Delatyn. fixed the place Eat Mikoupclfh, abdlht 10 miles south of fDelatyn and the same distance north hof the Ttataen Pass.
 Regarding the northern front, to- nights bulletin admits the loss of-a small position taken yesterday from lxhe Germans near Riga, and tells of lnrtillery fights on the Dvfna- "In' the direction of Baranovitzi I fsouth of the Niemen)," 1t says, ''the ! lighting continues, developing to our | advantage. The enemy delivered re- peated counter attacks in order to re- gain positions captured by us, but ! each was easily repulsed. Between !; Monday and Wednesday we captured Ealtogether 7s officers and about s,o4o fmen-"
 800, 900 Put Out of Action. 7 It is estimated here that at least lhalf a million Austrian and German 1 soldiers have been put out of action tsince Gen. Brusiloff began his great soffensive a month ago today. The igrand total of prisoners is in round numbers 235.o00 men, of whom 4,500 tare officers. At least another 200, 900 men are believed to have been wound led 50 severely as to incapacitate them tfo raction for some time, and an esti-
 se1ate of 65,000 dead is conservative. { Nearly all the prisoners are Aus trians. but many Germans have been killed and wounded, notably in the terrific fighting east of Kovel, where Herman troops bore the brunt. The
 booty captured is almost incalculable. 1t is placed conservatively at 250 can Inon and 700 machine guns, to say lRoth1ng of the vast quantities of other lmateria1.