The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-12
With Important Railroad Centre in Their Hands, Russians Are Pushing on Toward Halicx = Reach the Dniester River South of Mariampol.
.Austro Germans Making Desperate Resistance on 6ereth - 18,000 Captives Taken By Gen. Ekk in Six Days Hindenburg Re- pulses Blows.

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 Days Hindenburg Re-
 pulses Blows.
 Hstrograd. Aug. 13-Russian troops hnder Gen. Letchitzky have captured Stanislau and are pressing on toward
 rAlicz, having occupied Monaster- nyska. 19 mines to east, and having feached the Dniester south of Marian #Dol. eight miles southeast of Halicz, X3ho war office announced last night. @ The capture of Stanislau gives the #Russians another gateway through
 (which they can march toward Lem-
 bArx. the capital of Galicia, 72 miles kway, Stanislau Is an important rail- koad centre. Railroads radiate from
 t in five directions. Before the war. n VAs . manufacturing city and agri- eurturals centre and had population
 AlonasterzyskA Captured.
 sAfter capturing an enemy position bv arBauit," the of1cial statement says.
 .ous troops advanced to the middle &Rorpieo river, and, after driving the z1neuy rom fortified works. definitely ieoccupied the town of Monasterzyska. ssOne Of our mounted machine gun ' 4detachmepts under Lieut.. Plechknow, Isaftef having repaired the destroyed {brfdge at Monasterzysky, pushed Esn1onR to the rear of the third German reeerve regiment, and the latter, still ofDoring resistance, was annihilated 1 hy our armored machine guns. In the |&fclnfty of the confluence of the Zlota Ixape our cavalry detachments, con l 3inuinx tho advance, occupied the Vil- | Ia&e of Ustaezelione at the junction of tho River of Khorovanka with the Dniester.
 s-the gallant troops of Gen. Letch- \ 3t1ky; continuing the obstinate fight F n the region of Stanislau, captured RkhAt town. at 7:45 o'clock yesterday T 2tThursday) evening. Thereafter he fp11rsued the enemy, who retreated in the direction of Halisz. Several ex- paostons were heard previous to the ovacuAtion of the town by the enemy. On the pressure brought to bear on ! tho enemy. he evacuated the left bank t of the River ByStp&txe Ga branch of 4 the Dniester which joins that river Intar PlanampoD and our detachments {betxn to cross to the other bank, fn6anwhile pouring rifle and machine l nun fire into the retreating enemy" Fierce BAttle on stokhod.
 {F s'Ffercs fighting is continued on l1hs River stokhod." the earlier state mont declared.
 ''On the River Sereth our troops are iadvancing as . result of fierce fighting. tThe enemy is making a desperate re- futltance, alternating between defens- live actions and counter attacks. Not lv1thstanding the euemys efforts to }stsm our advance, our gallant troops 4ytndsr Gen. saAharoft. by a series ot trepeated attacks, pushed the enemy out of villages and woods on the right Hank of the river. and having reached the ridge commanding the heights they are lighting before the village of Trosiancenesgrovce. One of our cav < airy regiments attacked the enemy's infantry. and by second attack on ithe flank of the dense masses. of Ger , mans, threw them into complete dis forder. In this way their advance was stopped.
 ''rn this region the gallant troops of 4 Gen. Ekk took in battles between Aug. { and Aug. 10 total of 2BS lcfhcers and 13.00O men. In addition, jmore than 1000 wounded Austrians land Germans were captured. This number includes two stan officers, 104 Ilieutenants and 4.872 men who were taken in one days battle on Aug. 10
 The losses of the enemy in killed or lwounded, according to the statements Fof prisoners, were enormous. z Tn the region of the Monaster. Fxyska- -Nizniow Railway the successe. iof our troops are developing and the, continue to advance. One of our in i4antry regiments, having driven ou' lthe enemy from the wood northwes Iof the Village of Dubenlxa, on ths River Koropiec, broke into the south ern part of the Town of Monaster. Izyska, where fighting is continuing The enemy forces consisting mostly o1 t(3ermans, launched counter attacks (which everywhere were repelled by four troops. We took here 2,500 mer iand the commander of an Austrian Iregiment with the entire regimenta.
 stan and chaplain.
 "In a westerly direction, our troops tlreached the left bank of the Zlota ILipa, capturing during the engage iment the Village of Lazaruvka ana taking more than 1000 Austro-Ger- iman prisoners.
 Cavalry FOrds Zlota Hpa.
 "A German regiment, having crossed 2he River Zlota Lipa near the Village kOf Zadaruv, attempted a counter-at- tack on the position we occupied, but Twas repelled with enormous losses. ' our brave cavalry detachment, having forded the mouth of the River Zlota sLfpa, attacked the repelled enemy and. Ipursuing him, reached the left bank of lthe Dniester in the bend to the south of the Village of Usciezielone (south- west of Monasterzyska).
 't'TThe total number of prisoners talk en during the battles of Aug. and g amQ1nts to 5000.
 "In the direction of Stanislau, our troops reached with their right flank the River Dniester south of Marian pol, and they also reached the right bank of the Bystritza, where they are constructing bridges. In the region of vorokhta and Chibeni our troops captured in battle several heights
 QUIT STANIsIAAU WITHOUT
 FIGHTING, AUSTRIANs STATE 5 Berlin. Aug. 12-"We have evacu. ated stanislau without fighting" sayi m official statement issued yesterdas