, 1916-07-05

ers Stokhod and Styr, to the west of Sokul,
the Germans attempted to take the offensive
after emitting clouds of gas, which failed to
reach our lines, and which were partly blown
back in the direction of the enemy. The
German attack was repulsed but an artillery
duel continues. Yesterday morning enemy
~aviators dropped 80 bombs on Lutsk. On the
Dvina front the enemy artillery has bombar-
ded our positions south east of Riga and the
brid gehead above Ik8kull. North of Iiloukst
the Germans last evening attempted TO move
forward, but were thrown back by our gun
fire. On the evening of Wednesday light
and heavy German artillery opened O violent
fire on our trenches in the sector, northeast
of Novo Giodski. Under cover of this fire
the enemy crossed she Niemen and occupied
the woods east of the village of Ghnessitche.
Caucasus front: III the direction of Gemi-
scl'han, the Turks at lawn on Juae 28th.
took the offensive in great strength against
our advance guards and piercing the %latter's
fro t penetrated to the rear. A very hot
fight ensued but our troops recovered them
selves and drove back the Turks who suffer
ed heavy losses. Pressing on the enemy's
heels, our troops advanced and consolidated
the ground won.
Pttrograd, June 30th.-The Official com
municatiou says The troops on the Russian
left wing took the city of Kolomea, the most
important railway centre III Bukowlna. The
enemy con tinues to fall back westward, occu-
pying posi- tons previously prepared. North
west of Kimpolung, the enemy attempted an
offensive with large forces. General Letchit-
zky's forces are carrying out the offensive
under extremely difficult conditions, for tor
rental rains have played havoc with The roads
already bad. North of he confluence of the
Lipa and Styr and along the line Of Luisk-
Brody, the enemy bombarded our positions
with heavy and light artillery aud then I'M
dertook an offensive near The villa ges of Ga
rieDki and Nataiire. Our troops coolly allow
ed them to approach their bnrbed wire aud
then shot them down. In the region of the
Lipa and the enemy having been once re-
pulsed is preparing a new attack. The total
number of prisoners from June 9th to June
28th is $4,000 including officers. Prisoners
are still flowing in.
Rome, June 3Oth.-The Italian offensive
continues on the 1ientino front unchanged,
according to the War Office statement of
to-day. The Official statement says: Be-
tween the Adige and the Brenta we have
now reached the main line of resistance
where the enemy is strongly entrenched and
supported by numerous batteries of machine
guns. Our offensive is now being extended,
to other positions on the front. In the
ASA valley we occupied the Val Morbia line
and the southern slopes of Monte Senil. Ia
the Pasublo sector we continued TO attack
the enemy's defences in the Gosmagnion
area. Along the Posina line we took Grisco,
aud on the southern side of Monte Maggie
the Sears valley between Castan,e aud Laghi,
and the strong positions on Monte Cargori
and Monte Sogli Bianchi to the south of
Monte Seluggio. In the Sugana valley, we
occupied the slopes of Monte Civaron. We
took 104 prisoners, several hundred rifles,
ammunition and large quantities of material.
In the upper But we repulsed hostile attacks.
We storIned the summit of ZelIonkofel talk
ing 156 prisoners including ten officers. On
the upper Fena, orr infantry advanced to
Leopolds S Kirchon and Monte Crahuda.
Our artillery bombarded the railway station
at Travis and set fire to Saifnitz. In the
San Michele and San Martino del
Carso sectors our troops in u counter-at-
tack drove back the enemy inficting
heavy losses ard taking 403 prisoners.
In the Seld -Monfalcone area the advance
we began or the 28tb. resulted in the
capture yesterday of Hill 70 west of Monte
Cosich and Hill 1O4 east of Rocca di Mon
falcone. We captured 600 prisoners includ-
ing some officers besides arms, ammunition
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