, 1916-06-24

aud drove them bAck 10 the West hank or me
river. On The Ogeneski canal and Jasloida
river tneIe has been aItile.y ana life lire.
During the course of the day our fire brought
down two Geimau aerOp!nnes within our
lines, one of them two ve,sts soutE. of the
Listopndy station Oh the Botogoss"dhiz
mi way and the other pear the Jnuk farm ten
versts south east of the month of The Oginski
canal. Both The machines were comeplete-
ly destroyed and their pilots killed. In
the region Of Gruzatyn the enemy attacked
in mass formation but was put to Hight
leaving on the ground numbers of killed ava
wounded. In the region west of Sokul on
the SIyr we repulsed by a coun'er-attack IA
German offensive and captured about 600
prisoners and some maehlnr-gulls. In the
same region the enemy's heavy artillery
launched gusts of hre from the region OF
Mylsk. In the eglon OF Rudmirsto on the
Stokhod, west of Svidumks and east of
Vorontchine extremely violent fighting cou-
tiDues. We made no prisoners. This Is
explained by the evaporation Of our troops
who refused quarter TO he Germans who
had been employing explosive bullets. II
these attacks Il brave detachment of terrific
rial reserves from Yaroslav participated.
Their commander was wounded but refused
to quit the ranks. On the Strlpa west of Gal
vnronka our troops cap urcd portions OF the
enemy trenches. We ue continuing our pur-
suit of the enemy on the extreme left wing
Tin Bukowina). We have occupied Radauiz
and taken al additional % officers and 1000
men aud 3 muchine-guns and 27 packages of
machiue-gun ammunition. On the Black Sea
our torpeGoboats sank five large sailing ves-
sells aud a number of small ships with their
cargoes. We took a number of prisoners.
The passenger steamer "MeIcury' came in
contact with an enemy mine aud sank. A
majority of the passengers were saved. In
the Caucasus The situation is unchanged. The
steamer "Aelcuiy" probably was the Russian
steamer of that name the home port Of which
was Odessa. She was "A small steamer of $50
tons.
London, June 23'd.-An Oficial statement
made public at midnight says; Early this
morning (Fhursdqy) The enemy exploded an
exceptionally .aI ge mine in the neighbour
hood Of GIvenchy just north Of La Bnsse
canal. The explosion was followed by u
hostile bombardmeut of our trenches under
cover Of which the enemy entere our trench
es On II morrow front. Troops of tGe Royal
Welsh Fusiliers immediately delivered a very
gallant and successful counter-attack iuhict.
ing heavy losses on the enemy and diving
him completely out of our positions. Con-
sidering the S IL of the mine and the inten-
slty OF the fire Ouf total casualties were com
paratively light. Since then the situation n
this Eeighbourbood bus been quiet. Fla thpr
south during the night "wednesday we
exploded II NINE IN The neighbourhood of the
HohenzoIlern redoubt and occupied the lip
of the crater. Today (Ihu sIay) passed
quietly everywhere. Southeast of Armen-
there's our artillery was successful in sileucing
enemy guns which were sleIlIug behind our
lines near the PloegSt' ert wood. Yesterday
"wednesday in the mir there was a marked
decrease i'll activity by the enemy while our
machine carried out Il great deal of successful
work III cooperation with the artillery.
London, June 22nd.-Ihe Official an.
nouncement by the Russian War Office of
the capture OF Raduutz, II town of $1,000
inhabitants situated 80 miles south Of
C~zernowitz, ten miles item the Ruman an
frontier shows how actively Goueral Letch-
itsky is pursu ng The broken Austrian force.
According to o special despatch from
Petrograd nothing but u miracle can avoid
the destruction of General Planners army
as Generel Letchisky now holds a stretch of
twenty miles on the Sereth river. Accord
ing to a report from Rome an Austrian army
under General Batiiu is Shut up in the angle
of the frontier near the town of Sereth