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Show F 1 LL 0 F Town Is Situated in t Bukowina, 30 Miles South of Czernowitz; Berlin Reports Are to - Effect That Muscovites Met Defeat in Other Sectors. FRENCH TRENCH IS TAKEN BY GERMANS , Joffre's Men, by Means of Counter-attack, Recapture Re-capture the Greater Part of the Elements of the Position Where the Enemy Gained a Footing. Foot-ing. (Special Cable by Arrangement with London Daily Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON", June 22. Pursuing the shattered army of the Austrian general, Pflanzer, the Russians, under General Letcbitzky have captured Radautz, thirty-two miles south of Czernowitz. The Petrograd war office announces the capture of 1022 prisoners. t -I This success marked the twentieth day of the furious offensive by which the czar's troops are making wide incursions incur-sions into Austrian territory. The main successes are being made on the left flank. Petrograd admits that on the center and right the Russian armies are now being held in check by the Germans, Ger-mans, who have come to the aid of their battered ally. Germans Hold Line. Repuhe of heavy attacks by the Russians Rus-sians on the front held by General yon Bothmer's forces north of Przcwloka is officially announced by Berlin, which also claims that the Russians have been pressed back on both sides of the Turia, an affluent of the Pripct river, and other successes west of Kolki and northwest north-west of Lutsk. An official statement issued today in Vienna flatly announces the total fating fati-ng tire of Russian assaults iu Volbynia. Three Teuton Armies. Three huge German armies are now engaged on the Russian' front, today's dispatches show. One is operating around Kovel, the second before Vladimir Vladi-mir Volyusky and the third is holding t lie Sokal district. Together they are battling furiously to win back the territory gained by the Russians in the first flush of their drive, concentrating the greatest part of their efforts on the northern flank of the Russian armies under General Brusiloff. RUSSIANS REFVSE QUARTER TO ENEMY . IN ONE SECTOR PETROGRAD, June 22. via London, 7:4-3 p. m.-r-The war office today announced an-nounced the capture of the town of Radautz, iu Bukowina, thirty miles south of Czernowitz, The official statement says: The Germans are violently bombarding bom-barding tho region of the Jkskul bridgehead. On Wednesday night, following artillery preparation, the Germans took the offensive on the front of the Dvinsk position along the Po-niewsch Po-niewsch railway. They were everywhere ev-erywhere repulsed. n the region in front of Puha-' Puha-' towka, twelve versts south of Lake Vischnevskoio, the Germans, after intense artillery preparation, t launched an offensive and seized a f portion of our trenches. YVc has- (Continued on Page EJgat.) RUSSIANS MICE FALL OF RADAUTZ (Continued from Page One.) tened reinforcements to the scene and drove the army back, to his own trenches. Germans Driven Back. . South of Krevo the Germans crossed the river Krevlianlo. Our force prevented their further advance ad-vance and drove them back, to the west bank of the river, Ou the Ogiuski canal and Jasolda river there has been artillery and rifle fire. During the day our fire brought down two German aero- planes within our lines, one two versts south of tho Listopady station sta-tion on. the Bologos-SedleU railway and the. other near the Jouk farm, ten versts southeast of the mouth of the Oginski canal. Both the machines were completely destroyed and their pilots killed. Jn the region of Gruziatyn the enemy attacked in mass formation, but was put to flight, leaving ou the ground numbers of killed and wounded. 1 n the region west of Sokul on the Styr we repulsed, by a counterattack counter-attack against German offensive, and captured about 600 prisoners and some machine guns. In the same region the enemy heavy artillery artil-lery launched gusts of fire from the region of Myesk. Took No Prisoners. In the region of Radmiesto, on the Ktokhod, west of Svidniks and' east of Voroutchine, extremely violent vio-lent fighting continues. We took no prisoners. 'This is explained by the exasperation of our troops, who refused re-fused quarter to the Germans, who had been employing explosive bullets. bul-lets. In these attacks a brave detachment de-tachment of territorial reserves from Yarostav participated. Their commander was wounded, but refused re-fused to quit the ranks. On the Stripa west of Gaivoronka our troops captured portions of the enemy's trendies. We are continuing our pursuit of tho enemy on the extreme left wing (in Bukowina). We have occupied Radautz and taken an additional twenty-two officers and 1000 men and three machine guns and twenty-seven packages of machine gun am m unition. On the Black sea our torpedo boats sank five large sailing vessels ves-sels and a number of small ships with their cargoes. Wre took a number num-ber of prisoners. The passenger steamer Mercury came in contact with an enemy mine and sank. A majority of the passengers were saved. The Mercury probably was the Russian Rus-sian steamer of that name, the home port of which was Odessa. She was a small steamer of 5S9 tons. FRENCH SUCCEED IN WINNING BACK PART OF LOSSES PARIS, June 22. The official communication communi-cation Issued tonight reads: In the region to the south of Las-siny Las-siny a strong German reconnois-sance reconnois-sance attacked one of our advance posts after artillery preparation. Repulsed Re-pulsed by our lire, the . enemy dispersed, dis-persed, leaving several dead on the ground On both banks of the Me use the bombardment with shells of heavy caliber continued throughout the day with extreme violence. On the left bank the enemy especially directed his fire against our positions on hill 304 and Le Mort Homme, and on our second sec-ond lines In the region of Ksnes and L'hattincourt. . At (i o'clock in the evening, an attack at-tack directed against our trenches between be-tween hill .104 and the Bethincourt was completely repulsed, after heavy spirited fighting with grenades. On the right bank a counter-attack carried out by us in the afternoon enabled en-abled us to reoccupy the greater part of the elements where the enemy had gained a footing last night between Fumin wood and Chenois. Violent Bombardment. The bombardment from 6 o'clock took on a character of unprecedented violence on the front to the north of Thiaumont fortified works, the Vaux wood, (Jhapitre and the sector of La Iaufee (one of the detached military works of Verdun). In the Woe v re the artillery action has been intense in the region at the foot ot the Meuse hills. ijuiLe a spirited cannonadfng has been carried on on the rest of the front, notably in Champagne in the sector of Mont Tetu. Aviation: In reprisal for the successive suc-cessive bombardments carried out by the Germans tlio last few days on the open towns of Bar-le-Duc and Lunevllle, our aerial squadrons have executed several operations in enemy en-emy territory. On tiie night of June "1-22 eighteen shells were dropped on the town of Treves, where a great fire broke out. Today a flotilla of nine aeroplanes dropped forty shells on Karlsruhe (170 Kilometers from Nancy j. Mulheim Bombarded. Another group of ten aeroplanes set out to bombard Mulheim (on the right bank of the Rhine). Fifty shells were dropped on the ndlitary establishments establish-ments at that town. Pursued by a squadron of Fokkers on their return from Mulheim, our machines gave battle. In the course of which a Fokker was brought down. One of our machines was obliged to make a landing by reason of motor trouble. In the course of the day our pursuit pur-suit aeroplanes likewise displayed activity. Sublieutenant Nungesser brought down his eighth aeroplane, which came to earth at Lamorville in our wire entagiements. To the south of Lihons a German aeroplane, simultaneously subjected to machine-gun tire by Sergeant Chai-nat Chai-nat and Sub-Lieutenant Guynemer, crashed to the ground. Sergeant Ghainat had brought down up to that day four aeroplanes; Hub-Lieutenant Guynemer nine. Finally, in the region of EInville, north of Luneville. an enemy aeroplane aero-plane was brought down by the fire of our artillery. The two German aeroplanes which fell yesterday morning to the north-1 north-1 east uf St. Mihlel and near Fort Gcnicourt were hrought down by Sub-Lk'utenant Chaput, who had accounted ac-counted for six enemy machines up to that time. GERMANS CAPTURE ADVANCED TRENCH FROM THE FRENCH PARIS. June 11, 12:3'1 a. m. After violent vio-lent attacks lasting all night, the Germans Ger-mans captured front-line trenches between Funi in wood and Chenois, in tiie Verdun sector, aerording to an oftVial statement issued t dy ey the war of tire. The Germans attacked In forre on botli banks of thf Meus after the usual heavy i.onihanlnv-nt. An attack on tiie south siupt.- of Lead Man hill was checked by grenade detachments, according to the oi'i'ui.d statement. On the right bank of the river there were violent engagements west and south of Fort Vaux. during which the Germans gained a tooting in a corner of l-'umin wood, but were immediately exprlled. Later they returned tu tiie attack, when some trenches were raptured. A German grenade assault north of bib No. .321 was stopped by the fire of the French. The text of the statement says: On both banks of the Meuse last night was marked by a series of pronounced pro-nounced attacks by the enemy, which followed bombardments of great severity. se-verity. Repulse on Left Bank. On the left bank the Germans attacked at-tacked our trendies upon tiie southern south-ern slopes of Dead Man hill. Luring a spirited engagement with hand grenades, our troops wore successful in completely repulsing the enemy and in retaining all their positions. On the right bank the fighting continued con-tinued with ferocity in the region west and south of Furt Devaux. Yesterday Yester-day evening a powerful German attack at-tack penetrated a wood southeast of the Fumin wood. We delivered a counter-attack and chased the enemy out. At about midnight a furl nor offensive action was directed upon otir positions reaching from the Fumin wood to a point to the east of Chenois, Che-nois, and was repulsed with sanguinary sanguin-ary losses. Germans Take Trenches. At the Fumin wood and at Chenois the enemy secured lodgment in some of our advanced trenches between these two positions. At about 2 o'clock in the morning an attack with hand grenades against our positions north of bill No. 321 failed under our tire. In the Champagne- district artillery fighting was very spirited along the front from Maisons-de-Champagne to Mpnt Tetu. A French air squadron went out in pursuit of a group of enemy aeroplanes aero-planes which had come forward with the intention of bombarding the villages vil-lages of the valley of the Meuse. During Dur-ing this pursuit one of the French pilots brought down two German machines. ma-chines. During the night of June 21-22 French aeroplanes threw down a number of projectiles upon the railroad rail-road stations and the tracks at Apre-mont, Apre-mont, Grand Pre, Septsarges, Rotagne and Brienlles, as well as on the barracks bar-racks in the wood of Consenoys and the military establishments north of Thtonvtlle. BERLIN CLAIMS -" SUCCESS AGAINST RUSSIAN TROOPS BERLIN, June 22. via London. 4:52 p. m. The repulse of heavy attacks by the Russians against General Count von Bothmer's forces north of Przewoloka was announced today by the war office. The Russians were pushed farther back on both sides of the Turia river, an affluent afflu-ent of the Pripet. and farther to the south, according to the statement, and attacks on the Teutonic lines in the region to the west of Kolki and northwest of Lutsk were unsuccessful. The official statement says: Army group of General von Linsin-gen Linsin-gen : Russian attacks against the canal position southwest of Logiscbln and west of Kolki failed. Between Sokul and Liniewka, Russian positions taken by us were held against strong counter-attacks. Continuous efforts of the enemy to dispute our successes northwest of Lutsk were without result. On both sides of the Turia and farther south over the general line, from Sviniouk-ehi Sviniouk-ehi to Grochow the Russians w7ere driven hack. Bombs were dropped on the railroad at Men, on the Pripet, south of Luni-. niec. Army group of General Count von Bothmer: Strong enemy attacks from the Haivorenka-Bobullntze line, north of Przewoloka, were repulsed, with severe enemy losses. Western front: A weak attack bv a British detachment near Frelinghien, northeast of Armentieres, was repulsed. re-pulsed. West of La Bassee a German patrol detachment brought in some British prisoners. On the east bank of the Meuse infantry in-fantry fighting developed. We gained some advantages west of Fort Vaux. Both south of Poivre ridge and near Buss a French aeroplane was brought down by our anti-aircraft guns. The occupants of the second machine were made prisoners. RED CROSS PLANS RELIEF WORK IF WAR BREAKS OUT WASHrNGTON, Juno 22. The American Ameri-can Red Cross announced tonight that it had completed preliminary plans for relief re-lief work in connection with mobilization mobiliza-tion of the national guard and had instructed in-structed Its chapters throughout the country to begin the collection and forwarding- of suitable supplies for camp use of the state soldiers. A comprehensive plan for care of destitute families of guardsmen is being worked out and instructions in-structions regarding that work will be issued soon. Receiving and distributing depots will be established at San Antonio and EI Paso and intermediate depots at important centers cen-ters to be designated later. Supplies for designated regiments and companies will be accepted, but agents are instructed not to accept articles for designated Individuals. Indi-viduals. The organization's "approved list" of acceptable articles follows: Reading matter, games, comfort bags, pajamas, cotton socks. towels, pipes, smoking tobacco, cigarettes, electric fans (for hospitalsn, chewing gum. chocolate In tin boxes, bard candles, coffee, evaporated evap-orated cream, canned Truit and other delicacies in tins. Belgians Win in East Africa. HAVRE, June 22. 5:30 a. m. Further successes for the Belgian columns invading invad-ing German East Africa are claimed in an official statement issued by tho Belgian war office today. The statement follows: General Tombeur telegraphs that after beating the enemy on June 6 at Kiwaitawe our advance guard again caught up with the Germans on June 12 and forced an engagement with them on tho road from Kiwaitawe to Kitega, east of the river Nsnkoma. The enemy was routed and retreated, abandoning the killed on the field. The pursuit continues. French Bark Sunk. LONDON, June 22, 5:55 p. m. Lloyd's announces that the French bark Fran-colse Fran-colse d'Amboise, of 1973 tons gross, was sunk by a submarine on Wednesday. Tiie crew was landed at Kirkwall. Resignation Accepted. LONDON. June 22, 3:05 p. m. Premier Asquith announced in the house of commons com-mons today that the resignation of Baron Wimborne as lord lieutenant of Ireland, tendered shortly after the suppression of the recent Irish rebellion, had been accepted. |