Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-15 | Page 2 | Russians Take 6000 Prisoners and Six Guns

RUSSIANS TAKE 6000 PRISONERS AND SIX GUNS PETROGRAD, June 14, via London, '1:10 p. m. In their advance upon Czernowitz, the capital of B.ukowina, the Russians have occupied the village of Sniatyn, twenty miles northwest of the city, the war office announced today. to-day. Iu addition to their previous captures the Russians have taken twenty officers, offi-cers, tiUOO men, six guns and ten ma- j chin guns. ! "The text of the statement says: I Western front: Along the whole I front from the southwest of Polesia to the Rumanian frontier our troops continue to drive hack the enemy. During yesterday twenty officers and about 0000 men were taken prisoners. We have taken six cannon, ten machine ma-chine gains and many artillery and ammunition wapons. The total of prisoners and trophies captured during dur-ing the operations amounts to nearly 120,000 men. 17S0 officers, 130 cannon can-non and 2t0 machine guns. Reports which have been received say the enemy a Viand on ed at certain points quantities ot" various war materials ma-terials of such bulk as to make it impossible im-possible to give an exact description nt such short notice; as an instance, we found abandoned sufficient rails for field railways to cover thirty versts (ahont twenty miles.) Many of the enemy units are completely com-pletely disorganized, judging by the fact that in the fighting from June 6 to 11 General Stoherbatchof f, in a comparatively insignificant sector, captured 414 officers. 17,000 soldiers, 23 guns, 31 machine guns, 56 caissons and other booty. On the Vlndimir-Volynski road the ! v enemy displays stubborn resistance; the battles continue west of the vll- lage of Zaturze, half way between Lutsk and Vladimir-Volynski. In the region of Zaturze the Cossacks Cos-sacks made a brilliant charge, putting to the sabre an enemy squadron. ; West of Dub no our troops pushed the enemv before them and reached beyond the village of Demidovka and FO'!tr."-'.-t of Vnr.o captured f-e vil-Ly- or Kozin.?. Sov' a "'f I-M'-Z't' z. In rr:- ':. on i iv. i.e rishr. i.unk of tl.e :r.yj. t .t enr-n.v t r; 1 p-jweriil oj-mi.-r-a ; ' u-k- In !"::p filing y--U-"i.t ' uuj- trrjvr-.s i-rov. .bM ii.p rrn.-n-y I.H.-k ati.i Ou i:p:.-d tilt ie:L!Ua un ir.e w.-.-i ! .i rik of l S:r!py. Snii'ii of I::'- l':::slti' we : u pled tiip t'.v.n of Sniarvn ( tior' ir.V-'S'. of r'Zr;r:iiv ,'zi. F.uhnri- for t he roe-o' roe-o' tiie t"i-::'H'jwitz br:dge-ijcad con ; :i . i. t )n t c; ""vtr:H front t!ie ri.-rmans violently bonrjard'-rj tr.e ikskvil Lri-Ue-licad. soul U of Su;orguii we rep;i!-.-.i an ent-my ait.-rr.pt to ap- t proach our posinoiis. In i.ip region tif Uuratiovieiii and southward to the ('oh-.shie rpiun tl. w.-re p'tral en-riii-r. t s v t-si day with consiuer- ' i ',, li.'it-uh f:uit:' In tiie divpftinn of H-i L-.la.J : sro'.'p'M an off.-nsi e by i ru iorta r:t t-nt-:u y forrf-s.