The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-16
Petrograd Now Claims To Have
Captured 10000 Men, TAO
officers, l30 Cannon, $50 MAJ
dime Guns and Supplies
berlin SAYS SLAvS CHECKED
;RY TANNENBERG coNouERoR
Fighting On Western Line and
On verdun Sectors Dwindles
To intermittent Artillery Bomb
ardments, Declare Dispatches
tAssOciatod Press by Federal wIroless)

ASSOCIATED fross by Federal wirelesS.)
r ONDON, June l4.-Berlip has
l. thrown Field Marshall Won Hin
= denburg into the path of the Rus
sian s;eam roller in the hope Of hating
it, and last night reported that the vic.
tor of the Battle of Tannenberg has
again been successful against his old
foes, and north of Pinsk has halted the
Slav advance.
| Petrograd answers the Teutonic claim
of success with detailed account of
the trophies the Russians have taken
since the beginning of the present
drive, eleven days ago.
Russian Booty Huge
OF the prisoners taken from the Ger
mans and the Austrians, Petrograd says
1880 are unwounded officers She has,
she says, increased the number of men
captured to 10000.
OF booty she has captured l30 great
guns of various calibres and 260 ma
chine guns, besides vast amount of
munitions of war, shells, clothing, exPlo-
sives, automobiles, and machines of
many different kinds.
Nowhere in the long line from the
Pripet marshes, where the great often
sive began, clear south, through the
eastern edge Of Galicia to the Buko-
wilma, has there been any relaxation of
the determined Russian assault, and
"everywhere, adds the Russian off,
cial dispatches, "the foes have been
driven back, faster and faster"
Teutons Forestallcd
At the lower end of the German line,
near where it touches the left flank Of
the Austrian, the Russian commanders
l have been expecting a great offensive,
! and they anticipated this by thrusting
fercely and successfully themselves
said the accounts of the fighting from
=. Russia last night.
Earlier in the day reports reached
this city of the fall of Czernowitz, but
r they were not official, and up to late
v hour last night Petrograd had not an
il nounced that the city had been taken
). 1t is believed by the military experts
a who are watching the fighting in the
a eastern frontier, that the Slav drive
win surely reach the city within shOrt
!. time. According to unofficial despatch
n es from the Russian capital last nigh
q the fighting has come within twenty
=. miles of the place, where the Russian
!. have occupied the town Of Sniatyn
There they captured an additional 600
- prisoners after desperate battling, dur
~ ing which the Austrians made an hero
- ie defense of the place.
- Verdup Battle Dwindles
- On the western front, the fghtin
- has resumed its minor character. Thi
~ ia especially of the sectors around Vel
u dun, where, according to late despatch
- es last night, the struggle which hn
10 ragged so fiercely for the last few day
"a has dropped to intermittent artiller
~ bombardments, which fare up, last
r. little time and die out.
u, On the italian front the Austrian
ed are being held in their attempts to AZ
=, vance in the vicinity of the POsina Pr
sitions, and elsewhere there has bee
Is but minor activity.
Iii Reports from Geneva, in commentin
Is upon the great Russian drive, declare
ms last night that reports from the Ru
he sian front gave much Of the credit 4
of the success of the last drive to Il
*, great supplies of American munitioi
d, and guns, which the Russians are usin
es, and which are said to be flowing stead
,er ly into the coutry over the Trans-Sib
rian railroad.