The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-23
RUSSIAN Wet DRY
CUTS0FF ROUMAN|A
FROM THE GERMANS
Cars Forces Take Radautz
and Control Thirty Miles OF
4 Western Frontier.
BRUsIL0FF SEXES ROADS
New Advance Hard Blow to
Austo.G German Trade and
Tightens Food Blockade.
BaUsILoFF SEXES ROADS

LONDON, June 2s-The city Of RAJ
dautz. in tho southern Bukowina. eleven
miles southwest of the sereth. fell to-
day to the Russians. according TO the
official announcement by Petrograd'
Radautz lies a little mere than nine
miles west OF the Roumanian frontier.
It's capture puts the Russians IN pos
session Of thirty miles, on one-half. OF
Roumanias western border. thus isolat-
ing the northwestern part of that coun-
try from the central powers.
The fall of Radautz further places
the extreme left wing of General Brusi-
lofts invading armies IN full control
of the railway running vertically
through the Bukowina. from Zalesczyki
20 Radauts and threatens the southern
proiongation of this line running
through Suczawa into the interior OF
Roumania. Thus. the Russian com
mander has now. In the line from Tarn-
Radauts, an excellent base railway Tor
the continu alton of his offensive.
Blow to Teuton Trade.
Moreover. the new Russian advance
into the southern Bukowina de.ls
blow to the commercial relations re-
Gently established between Roumania
sion of the trade agreement by which
the three powers are to export to one
another surplus quantities of foodsturs.
Much of the grain shipped from Rou-
mania to Austria and Germany under
this compact went via the Bucharest
Budapest Vienna Berlin railway. With
a Russian army fronting the western
Roumanian boroer through which this
. line runs. not ton of Roumanian foods
can reach the central empires BY this
route, while On the other hand Rou-
mania becomes partly dependent upon
Russia
The Russian drive in the south thus
assumes q new aspect in that u
threatens n tightening Of the food
blockade of the Tentonic countries. II
pushed further to the south. To the
Danube. on which river the bulk OF
the commercial exchange II carried on.
tho new trade pact will be reduced to
nil. Roumania viii be isolated and vir-
tually blockaded from the north. north
west. and east tBlack Seal. while the
Teuton-Bulgarian Macedonia army will
be placed BETWEEN thke Russians and
the Franco British forces.
Checked in Other Sectors.
Apart from the success in the south
the Russian offensive made no progress
In the last twenty-four hourse. but. on
u
In Vo!hynia. where the German re-
endorsements are imparting more and
more stubbornness to the Austro Hun
garian resistance, and even have en-
abled the assumption of a counter
movement in the center. southeast or
Rovel.
The day brought no abatement in
the furious fighting which has been
going on for a week on the Kolki-
Sokul sector of the Strypa. Their ad-
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gen. the Russians tried again to break
the Teuton front in an effort to drive
through to Kovel, but, according to
Berlin. all the onslaughts failed. Be
tween Sokul and Liniewka, where the
Russians are trying to force a cross
ing OF the Stokhod. the only natural
obstacle separating them from kovel,
the fighting was particularly fero-
cious. The Teutons held their front
against all attacks.
Russians Driven Back.
Further south, on both sides of the
Turtja river. west of Lutzk, and down
to the town of Gorochow. north of
the Galician border line. the Russians.
according to the German war office,
were driven further back.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg. at
the same time. renewed his attacks
south of Dwinsk. While Berlin dis
poses of these operations with a ref
erence to successful patrol incur
sions," the Russian war office admits
that the Germans west of Lake Wish
nieff (due west of Wilna) captured
some Russian trenches but adds that
they were later driven out.
The ferocity of the fighting in Vol
hynia is indicated by a sentence in
the Russian official report to the eff
feet that mo quarter was given, as
the enemy used explosive bullets.
renee was in the region of Voronchin
east of the Stokhod. The Russians
here took 21S prisoners, including -four
officers. Apart from 500 Germans re-
ported taken west of Sokul, no fur
Their captures are announced by Pet
rograd.