The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-11
RUSS ROUT TEUT0Ns
CARS TROOPS DRIVE THEIR
WAY INTO BaoDY, KEY TO
IEMBERG.
GERMANS ADMIT RETREAT
Captured City in Flames, Though II Is
Not Known Whether Town Was
Fired by Shells or Put to the Torch
by Austrians.

London, July 31.-Cficial announce
ments given out by both Austrian and
German sources admit three severe
setbacks for Teutonic arms on the
eastern front. The cars forces are
pressing closer and closer 40 Lemberg,
the Galician capital, and Kovel, in Vol
hynia. From the reports OF the CEN
trail powers it is made clear that:
The Russian troops under General
Letchitzy have destroyed the Austro-
German first line south Of the Dniester
and are now before the second. east
of Tlumach.
Between Turya and the Rovni-KOvel
railway the last of the Teutonic
troops were forced to retire behind
the Stokhod river.
General Won Linsingen's army has
lost more trenches in hand-to-hand
fighting northwest of ,Kovel.
Tutons Pushed Back.
Petrograd, via London, July 81
In the region of Kovel and Brody in
Volhynia, and also in the region TO
the south of the Dniester river, in
Galicia, the Russians continue 10 adj
vance and are pushing back the Aus
tro-Germans, says the Russian official
statement.
Russ Capture Brody.
London, July 29.-The Russians
have captured Brody. This most i'm
portant single victory of the great
Russian drive, which started two
months ago, is chronicled in an official
bulletin from Petrograd. Simultaneous
ly the SlavS have smashed the entire
Austro- German line west of Lutsk.
where they had been held up for weeks
in their drive upon the stronghold OF
KOvel. Capture of this great railroad
center now appears imminent.
The capture of Brody, which is one
of the main railroad centers in eastern
Galicia, marks an advance of six miles
in single day, by the cars forces, a
speed almost unprecedented in the
great war for large bodies of troops.
Thursdays official reports showed the
Russians six miles from the town at
their nearest point of attack and the
capture indicates not only defeat of
it's Austrian defenders but their abso-
lutte rOut.
City Is In Flames
The captured city is in flames. This
much is disclosed by the report from
Petrograd, though it is not made clear
whether the town was fired by Russian
shells before its fall or was put to
the torch by the fleeing Austrians.
Sweeping Russian victories in Volhy-
MIA and Galicia peril the entire AustrO-
German system of defense on front
of more than 100 miles, and according
to military experts here will precipi-
tate a general retreat and reorganiza-
ton of the whole Teutonic front which
now protects kovel and Lemberg, the
two chief detectives of the Slav drive.
Vladimir V0lynski, another stronghold.
lies in the way of the Russian ad-
vance, but no serious obstacle in the
nature of permanent Notifications now
looms between the Russians and Lem
berg.
Berlin Admits Retreat.
The Russian advance. announced
from PetrOgrad, was forecast In part
by an official report from Berlin which
announced retreat by the forces of
General Won Linsengen northeast of
Svinuichy, In southern Volhynia. and
only few miles southeast of Vladimir
Volynski.
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