The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-14
Vienna Officially confesses Fresh
Losses When SIags Succeed
In Piercing Won Bothmer's Line
At Lower Stripa River Positions
czAR's MEN CAPTURE 1000
. PRISONERS BELOW BUCzAc
French and English Consolidating
Gains North and South olson
me: Asquith Says Offensive
Has But lust Begun On West
? ltAssOclated Prsss by Fedsral wireles..l J

>tAssoeiated Press by Federal wireisss.)
T oNDON, July l4.---Held for the
l. time being ON the Stokhod Riv-
er- battle fields General Brussi.
loft, appears TO be attempting to flank
his enemies from the south. While
Petrograd admits that the Russians
have made no farther gains in the di.
rcction Of Kovel, Vienna is compelled
20 confess additional losses at the
fronts which General Count Won Both
mer is attempting to defend.
In the official eommunique issued
from the Austrian war Office in Wen
ma last night, the admission is made
that the Austrians were unable to prev.
.ent Brussiloff 'sLmen from piercing the
Teutonic 'front.' IN several places south
. " R'Tsas md % fhe hover; stfipa
river. where II" lighting has been so
dPspefatcepf late. ~ .' sd. 49,
Slavs Take Prisoners
Here the Russians succeeded in ad-
ding to their huge total of prisoners
two thousand men and officers, and a
quantity of booty of various sorts, TO-
gether with marked gain of territory.
To the north, where the Germans and
Austrians are withstanding the terri.
fl" drive Of the Slavs, they have man
aged to regain some of the ground they
recently lost, and say that the Russian
counter,"ttaeks were repulsed with
fearful losses.
1t is in this Stokhod river sector of
the great eastern battle ground that
the Russians must gain if they are TO
win through to Kovel, the junction
Toint from which radiate the railroads
that feed the Austrian lines to the
south and the German lines to the
north let the Russians win that
town, and the Teuton lines must fall
back to the dcfonses that they have
prepared on the Bug river.
Berlin Reports Success
Berlin reports that northwest of
PucZac the Russians have met with
decided reverse. Here the troops un.
the offensive, and are said TO have
forced the Slavs back consid derable
distance and TO have captured 400 pris.
Oners.
Both sides are throwing reinforce
ments of men and guns into the fight.
Reports from neutral sources say that
the Austrians are continuing to rush
men Of all classes of service to the
eastern front, and that Germany also
is beginning to move troops from the
west to meet the emergency that il
looming hrger and larger ON the east
Prn horizon.
West Front Quiet
At the western front affairs are
quieter than they have been for long
time. The bombardment of course !
keeps up without surceasc, and there I
have been minor engagements of nfan
try at various points along the line, but |
nothing like the recent fighting on the
Somme sectors, or at NeTdun.
The Germans tried "a number of |
counter. attacks north and south Of the |
Somme yesterday but the official re-
ports say that the British and French |
lines held firmly under the pressure. 1t |
is believed that the Entente Allies are |
now devoting all their energies in this
district to consolidating the ground
they have won and preparing for the
next great stroke, d,
Drive Just Beginning
Whether it is to come on the same
ground or at some other place is not
known, but the military observers
here and in France are predicting that
the battle of the Somme will be a
repetition of the battle of Verdun. and
that the allies will strike there again
in the hope of cutting the Perrone rail.
road line.
Premier Asquith in a statement in
the house of commons last night, an.
nouneed that the "Offensive of the Al
lies at the western front is merely at
its beginning, but the fighting will be
long and bitter"