White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-06-23
RUSSIANS GETTING
CLOSE TO. LEMBERG
ONLY 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF
THE GALlCIAN CAPITAL AT
LAST REPORT.
TEUT0Ns ARE DEvIDED NOW
Petrograd Asserts Foe Now Divided
Into Three Main Army Groups-
Germans She'll Verdun-Airmen
Busy on Several Fronts.

London, June 18.-The drive of the
Russian offensive in Volhynia, Cali
cia and Bukowina shows little slack
ening in power, although the forward
progress of General Brusiloff's ar
mics apparently is much less rapid
than in the early stages of the cam
paign.
From the Volhynian triangle fort
resses the Russians have thrust sharp
ly to the west and southwest. In
the former direction they are batter
ing on the Austrian defense line
along the Styr and the Stokhod, not
more than 80 miles from Kovel the
important railway junction essential
to close connection between the south
ern Teutonic armies and those to the
north.
Close to GaIician Border.
In the latter direction they have
scored new progress, and now are
close to the Galician border, pushing
down the railway from Dubno. The
current Russian official statement re-
ports the occupation of Radzilowo,
less than 10 miles from Brody, across
the frontier line, and approximately
go miles northeast Of Lemberg, the
Galician capital, the Russian object
i've in this drive.
Berlin records the participation of
German troops in the fighting against
the Russians, reporting General Won
Linsingen's forces engaged in the
Stockhod-Styr sector, and others I'M
| der General Count Won Bothmer TAX
ing part in the battles north of Prz-
| wolka.
Only Artillery at Verdun.
On the western front the fighting
at Verdun has again been left to the
artillery for the most part. The Ger
mans are violently Smelling French
positions in the Deadman hill sec
ton and, incidentally, have made hand
grenade attacks in this vicinity, that
Paris declares were futile.
Rome announces an important sue
cess northeast of Asiago, in the Tren-
tino, where several positions at the
head of the Frenzela valley were cap
tured.
Vienna reports the failure of Ital-
ian attacks in the Dolomites and like
wise of assaults upon the Austrian
lines on the Doberdo plateau.
An Austrian Capital Falls.
London, June 49, Czernowitz, cap
ital of the Austrian crownland of
Bukowina, is in the hands of the
Russians, and the Austrians who had
held it are in retreat toward the Car
pathian mountains.
Hard fighting took place in the
capture of the Czernowitz bridge
head and in the passage of the river
Pruth, but when finally the Russians
gained the right bank of the river
the Austrians evacuated the capital,
leaving 1000 prisoners and some guns
in the hands Of the Russians.
Desperate Resistance.
To the north in Galicia and Vol
hynia, the Russians are meeting with
desperate resistance on the part of
the Austro-Hungarians and Germans,
some of the latter of whom are de-
clared by Petrograd to have been
brought from the French front in an
endeavor to aid in stemming the Rus
sian advance.
While Petrograd asserts that the
Russians are repulsing the counter
attack, pressing the Teutonic allies
| farther back and taking from them
large numbers of prisoners and guam
titles of war materials, both Vienna
and Berlin report victories for their
armies in Galicia and Volhynia.