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Show FOfiTIFiED : posmoas ; TAKEN BY Mil Petrograd War Office . Announces Further Successes Along the Sereth and Graberka Rivers in Northern Ga-licia, Ga-licia, South of Brody. ITALIAN TROOPS PUSHING FORWARD Strong Austrian Works - Captured and More Than 3600 Prisoners Taken; Large Amount of Ammunition and - Guns Secured. LONDON', Aug. 7, 11:33 p. m. A E?tf dispatch from Petrognd "Txti scccesses to tho south of r tody bring tlie Russians within - fo:ren miles of the Tarnopol-Lem-" terg riHiray. It Is reported that tie Atrian forces at Tamopol already al-ready are retiring in the direction of EocieS." f LONTON", Aug. 7. A race between ksiarj and Teutons to outflank one l:''it, the Museovotes heading for . Ifvel lid Lexherg. the armies of the Etral ezipires trving to repeat the res: "break through"' battle of last - all ty a sudden vigorous thrust east-ifi east-ifi from the Carpathians that is ifcai tie campaign in the east has re- ' itself to since the fall of Brody, ke lonieastern "gate" of the Galician r;:sL Irdicafions that the situation fci taiirg on this shape have accumu-CeddTrirg accumu-CeddTrirg the last fortnight; today's ffd&l statements from Petrograd, Ber-2 Ber-2 azd Vienna remove the last doubts. Tie race is in full swing. It is marked ;:r y titter battles before Kovel, in the . nneastem and southeastern corners of ' ' ali:ia, and in the Carpathian- foothills " . 'tee Prsth. Both sides made headway - wa.'d their mail objectives during the - let twenty-four hours, the Eussians - nrarf Kovel and Lemberg, the Teutons i their counter offensive in the Car-ttiiiins, Car-ttiiiins, where the German troops, ac-TCrg ac-TCrg to the Berlin report, have gained Plaik and de Eskowata heights on . Cieremoeh river. ' l":;e orTicial communication from Rus-a Rus-a general headquarters, issued this er-fz, reas: On the Stokhod. in the region of Zarecxe, our troops delivered an as-E;It as-E;It and- without firing a single ' ' tir' r?ve the enemy out of a Eec- o. nis trenches, which we occu- - Tie-. We ,rx,k twelve officers and 200 HJ cne machine pun. ,.r success also developed further ,- a ir.e norths sector of the terri--7 we captured on the Sereth. In . sector Voronezh reserve troops J--'''' distinguished themselves, ' n'-'-f ar;1TTated by the general high t-nj oi tne troops wnich rushed the memy. : vJJ S'Jncay ,-e captured In this re-'-" ';rt"n officers and 3'rfjr; rr.en, them Germans, also two - f.. a"d several machine guns. : ,"?-it.mg was very fierce. A '- '--".moer of wounded Austro-Ger- prisoners are arriving. Xr-'.ti'JLSJi: Ur'der pressure of the .''Jk ; "Ps In Persia have re-"'.ah. re-"'.ah. 6 resion eaBt of Kerman-X Kerman-X , VSSIANS TAKE POSITIONS OF THE AUSTRIAN ENEMY '. Pi-?,?IP-AD- Aug. 7. via London. 3:18 j 'hi fJC':ses for the Russians ' 'U'n'cV; ,' an,i Oraoerka rivers in " t, so'Jtl1 " Brody, were I,, V , war ofSce today. The ior. Ir, cf.r'turd strongly fortified po-;! po-;! S . ""etion of the villages of ' - 1 ;u";Irnt follows: '' ' tir ?? ' seven enemy aero-'S- ,he rii 'Darde1 several points In ya!ln.'i " "'.' ti.e Stokhod river. At lT V"18 damage. ' -.nVri v , I06! alon the Stokhod h.'i,0,k th Shelve, but ev- x'tlii'?Pul1. Our offensive ri1"V; e region of the Gra-'M'i'..,:"e:l1 Gra-'M'i'..,:"e:l1 ruers. Our troops he """"l-y fortified positions of eif-..,!nntn '?"ity the vii-1r vii-1r b ; Kostiruec and Reniuv. th. 'encounters took place ' '"y IZ? ,hl" re-'or'- The aerr,er,r, r co,J"'er atta-ks. Kn- Lllijrg Proceeding!! under dif- Contlnued on Pags Four.) j FORTIFIED IIS TAKEN BY ROSSIS i (Continued from Page One.) flcult conditions, owing to uninterrupted uninter-rupted rains having reduced the soil almost to a morass. ITALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE STRONG ENEMY POSITIONS ROME, Aug. 7, via London, 8 p. m. Ttalian troops have captured strong Austrian Aus-trian positions commanding communication communica-tion between the Travenanzes valley and the bare torrent In the Gader valley, in the Tofana region, says an official communication com-munication Issued today by the war office. of-fice. Several Austrian attacks on the slopes of Monte Zebio, on the Sette Com-muni Com-muni plateau, were checked by Italian artillery. On the lower Tsonzo the Italians gained possession of nearly the whole of hill No. S5 and held it against violent counter attacks. Prisoners taken in yesterday's righting by the Italians total 3600. A large amount of ammunition and guns also was captured. The official statement follows: Between the Adige and the Upper Isonzo artillery activity continues. On the Hett Communl plateau the enemy exploded several mines, destroying one of our trenches on the slopes of Monte Zeblo, and then delivered attacks, at-tacks, which were checked completely by our artillery. In the Tofano region our troops captured strong enemy positions commanding com-manding communication between the Travenanzes valley and the Sare torrent tor-rent in the Gader valley. The enemy I continued to bombard villages In the upper Dogna valley and we retaliated by bombarding the military buildings at Tarvls. Raibl and Tolmino. On the lower Isonzo our troops began be-gan yesterday an attack on some strong enemy positions, while in the Monlalcone sector our offensive, which began on tlte 4th, made progress toward to-ward hills SS and 121. After affective affec-tive preparation by artillery and trench mortars, our troops carried several lines of the enemy's intrench-in intrench-in en ts. In the Monfalcone area, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting, bersagllere cyclists of the Third, Fourth and Eleventh battalions took and held against several violent counter-attacks nearly the whole of hill 85. During yesterday's fighting we took 3600 prisoners. Including 100 officers, one of whom was a regimental commander com-mander and one a staff major; a battery bat-tery of three guns, several dozen machine ma-chine guns, numerous rifles and much ammunition. A. squadron of our caprons aeroplanes aero-planes bombarded the railway junction junc-tion at Opcina (northeast of Triest) under unfavorable atmospheric conditions condi-tions and drove back hostile aeroplanes, aero-planes, one of which was brought down. One of our aeroplanes failed to return. TURKS REPORT REPULSE OF THE RUSS SOLDIERS CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 7, via London. Lon-don. S:35 p. m. An official statement Issued today says: No news has been received from the Egyptian front. Persian front: A vigorous Russian attack north of Bukar. was repulsed with heavy enemy losses. The Russians Rus-sians were compelled to retire northward. north-ward. Caucasus front: We occupied In the Bitlis sector Mount Nebatt, six kilometers kilo-meters southwest of Bitlis. Despite the enemy's stubborn defense, our attack at-tack against Mount Kolak, southeast of Bitlis, continued successfully. In the Mush sector our attack on Mount Kozma resulted in the head-ions head-ions flight of the enemy. Our pursuing pur-suing rroops penetrated the village of Kizllagetsu, sixteen kilometers west of Mush, and captured 200 prisoners, six guns and seven machine guns. VIENNA REPORTS THE CAPTURE OF 1200 PRISONERS VIENNA, Aug. 7, via London, 10:40 p. m. The Austrian -official communication communica-tion issued here today says: Heavy fighting is taking place in the region of the Gorizia bridgehead and on the Cobordo plateau. Stubborn battles on Monte Zabotino and Mon-tesan Mon-tesan , Michael lasted throughout the whole "night and have not been concluded. con-cluded. Counter-attacks by the Aus-trlans Aus-trlans resulted In the recovery of a greater portion of the advanced posl- 1 tlons captured by the Italians in their ; first assault. The Austrians have taken thirty-two officers and 1200 men prisoners. Austrian Report. BERLIN. Aug. 7. via wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. "In the southern section of Do-berdo Do-berdo height on Friday," says the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian army headquarters' report of August 5. "the Italians, with at least seven regiments, attacked our positions, after four hours of artillery preparation. The Italian attack at first was frustrated by our artillery. Later the enemv temporarily tem-porarily entered the Austro-Hungarian positions at several points, but everywhere every-where was ejected. We took 230 unbounded un-bounded Italians and captured two machine ma-chine guns." Turks Report Success. BERLIN. Aug. 7, by wireless to Sav-ville. Sav-ville. A battle between the Turks and the Russians In the Mush sector in southern south-ern Turkish Armenia resulted in the Russians Rus-sians being routed with the loss of more than 200 men in prisoners, seven cannon and six machine guns, according to today's to-day's Turkish report. |