The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-12
CAPTURE DUBNO FORTS;
ADVANCE SWEEPS INTO BUKOWLNA


road. forcing the enemy At his Myinov
point OF support to surrender. Resides
dislodging the enemy from his principal
position north OF Buczacz we made
many prisoners there, including the stan
OF an Austrian battalion. and also took
a great quantity of arms.
We overthrow the enemy on the
Strypa. Near Ossovitzie. north Of Buc-
zacz. one of our regiments captured a
complete battery Of four ten centimeter
mortars. Despite the enemy's desperate
resistance, his violent flank and curtain
fire. together with the explosion Of mines.
Gen. Techitsky's troops captured an
enemy position south OF D~obronovtze
about fourteen miles northeast OF Ger
nowitz. in Bukowina. In his region
alone We took as prisoners one general.
347 officers and $4,000 men. and cap
turcd ten guns, and at the time this re-
port Is despatched prisoners are still
coming in.
Southeast Of zalc szozyky by ar cner-
gctic coup we overthrow the enemy, who
retreatcd.
The enemy blew up the Yourkoutz
railway station. Turkoman cavalry
charged the retrcating enemy and turned
his retreat into a disorderly rout.
In attempts to save the situation the
enemy at many places made FURIOUS
counter attacks. Among others at dawn
Saturday. in the region OF Semki, east
Of kolki. numerically superior enemy
forces attacked our advanced elements
and under cover OF a concentration OF
their fire forced them back over the
Styr. But the same day We arrested all
Interior developments OF this hence
The enemy Is resisting with special
desperation in the region OF Torgovitsy,
on the Styr, south of l.utzk, where he
ie lighting with s%anguinary fury.
The total results of the violent attacks.
~ our troops. carried out from the &th to
the 10th without giving the enemy a mo
ment's respite. place tn strong relief the
fact that they have forced the enemy or
ganized lines on the vast front from tho
wooded region of southwest Russia to
the Rumanian frontier.
The Austrian statement reads as fol
lows:
Eastward OF Kolki on Saturday We
drove back the enemey across the
Styr, capturing eight officers and L.
500 men, as we'll as three machine
guns.
Northwest, of Tarnopol We recap
tured a height.
In the northeastern BukoWina. ow-
ing TO the pressure OF greatly SUI
perior forces. We withdrew.
Dubno. a modern fortress built, like
I.utzk. mainly IN support OF Rovno to
ward of possible Austrian aggression,
constitutes an excellent starting point
FOR "A Russian drive into the heart OF
+ ,|ialicia. Proceeding on both sides OF
the Observation-Disclosures rail-
way the Russians should be able TO
cover the cighty-tWo miles, which still
separates them from the Galic'an capt
tai within a comparatively short time
provided that Austrian resistance In
this region continues as weak as II mas
been up 10 date.
4 greater danger than the capture
of Lenders IL, however. presented by
the Russian advance into the Bukowina.
II these two Russian dr!ves-to Lem
berg and to czernowitz--arc euccessful
the whole southeastern Austro-Hun
garian army will find itself squeezed
between two Russian armies. and its
only escape IS into the difficult Carpa-
THAN Mountain passes. where the Rus
slams. this time we'll equipped and
greatly superior In numbers. are expected
10 be more successful than In their nrs'
carpathian campaign.
Meanwhile the Germans. thus far I'M
successful In their efforts to stem the
Russian tide 10y reinforcing their ally
IN the south, have apparently begun an
attempt to create "A diversion IN the cen
tr" OF their own line.
Starting out from kreNo, which lies
htlf WAY between wilma and Minsk. the
Germans. according to the Berlin War
office, attacked the Russian lines and
pushed the Russian positions forward
They took loo prisoners, This ofen.
stvc. though ~uuimpor,ant thus far. may
lac the beginning Of a general movement
by Field Marshal Won l~lindenhurg with
M.nsk, bwinsk and Riga as the MAR