Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-11
TAKE SIX VILLAGES SOUTH OF
BRODY IN A FURIOUS At
TACK LAST SUNDAY.
OVER $500 PRISONERS TAKEN
Berlin Claims Progress Against the
French in Chapitre Wood Near
verdun-SIight Gain for the
British-Turks Move.

ella the Russians have struck another
hard blow at the Teutonic allies and
occupied along the Sereth and Ora
berki river, south of Brody, six vii
lagos and the entire ridge on which
they are located.
Fight From House to House.
Furious fighting marked the en-
gagement, the Russians being forced
in the villages to drive their adver-
saries from house to house. The AUS
tro-Germans at last reports were
bombarding violently their lost posi-
lions.
In the fighting the Russians cap
tured a regimental commander and
40 other officers and more than $500
men, and also took numerous ma
chine guns and bomb throwers.
Berlin admits that the Russians
have gained the left bank of the Sc
reth river, but asserts that the Ger
mans have made progress against the
French in the Chapitre wood, near
Verdun, and in mining operations
against them in the Argonne; that
the Russians have been driven from
positions along the Stokhod river,
south of Zarecze, and that in the
Carpathians the Germans are still
operating successfully.
Slight advances for the British at
Highwood and east of Pozierres, on
the Somme front, and by the French
southwest of Estrees, south Of the
Somme, and to the northwest Of the
Thiaumont work, near Verdun, are
recorded.
Turkish Positions Captured.
In Asiatic Turkey the Russians re-
port the capture of various new Turk
ish positions. On the Kialkit CHA
river basin positions protected by
five lines of trenches were wrested
from the Turks, while south of En-
zingan and west of the villege Of
Ognut additional trenches and two
heights were captured. In the region
of Mush and Bitlis the Turks have
assumed the offensive, but Petrograd
says they are being held by the Rus
sian fire.
Suez Attackers Driven Back.
The $4,000 Turkish troops operat-
east against the Suez canal also have
met with defeat at the hands of the
British and have been forced to flee,
leaving more than $500 prisoners be-
hind them, including some Germans,
says London. In addition the Otto
mans suffered heavy casualties. Aus
tralian and New Zealand cavalry took
an important part in the fighting.
Italians Repuse Austrians.
In the Austro-Italian theater the
Austrians are heavily bombarding the
Italian lines between the Adige and
upper Isonzo rivers and the Pasu-
bio area, while in the Sugana valley
and the upper Cordevole valley they
launched infantry attacks against the
Italians. These attacks, according to
Rome, were repulsed.
Unofficial advices from Saloniki
say the Serbians have taken from the
Bulgarians the village Of Remit, on
the Macedonian front.
French Capture Prisoners.
London, Aug. 8.-The Germans have
suffered further losses at the hands
of the French between the Hem wood
and the river Somme, losing line
of their trenches and 120 prisoners
and 10 machine guns. In the Verdun
sector the French made progress
south of the Thiaumont work, cap
tured five machines and took some
houses in the western part of the
village of Fleury.
After a heavy bombardment of the
British positions the Germans launch
ed violent infantry attacks north and
northeast of Pozieres, and at two
places succeeded in entering British
trenches. Their success was not long
lived for the British soon drove them
out, inflicting heavy casualties.