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Show RUSSIANS TAKE 358,000 CAPTIVES DURING THE DRIVE PETROGRAD, Aug. 16, via London, 3 p. m, Between June 4, when the Russian offensive was inaugurated, and August 12 . General Brussiloff's forces captured more than 3f)S,Ono mien, the war office announced an-nounced today. Great numbers of suns also were captured, .says t lie report, which gives the following figures: Officers captured, 7757; men, 3.10, S45; cannon, 405; machine guns, 132G; mine and bomb throwers, 338; powder carts, Jf)2. The official statement says: On the river Zlota Lipa, in the region re-gion south of JJrzezany, our troops occupied at some places the western bank of the river. The enemy, having hav-ing resumed his counter-attacks, is chocking our further advance. In the region between the Zlola Lipa and Dniester our troops are fighting their way forward. The enemy en-emy here is also making a desperate resistn nee. On t he river Bystritza we have occupied Sololvina and Griavu, southwest south-west of Solotvina. In the icgions of Pelatyn and Vorokhttt the enemy, owing to our pressure, is retiring to t he west. Our troops have captured a series of heights west of Vorokhta and Ardzemey. In the direction of the Kiilibaba region, at Capul mountain, attempts by the enemy to resume the off en. si ve were f rust rated by our fire. According to final reports received, the total captures by the troops of General Brussiloff during the operations opera-tions from June 4 to August 12, in which period the fortified lines of tho Austro-Germans stretching from the rh er pripet to the Rumanian front were taken, were as follows: The number of officers and men, including combatants and no n -coin -batants. taken prisoner and cannon and machine guns taken by the troops of General Knledine were 3S4 officers offi-cers and I0,22i men, H7 guns, 4.".!) machine guns and 14ii bond) and mine throwers; by General Letchi t z.ky, 2JM9 officers, 100,578 men, 121 cannon, 424 machine guns, 44 bomb and mine throwers and 35 powder carts; bv General Sakharoff, Ji87 officers, S7,-2-ls men, 70 guns, 23 L' machine guns, 119 bomb and nunc throwers and 128 powder carts. Thus I lie total captured were 7737 r office, 350, S45 men. 405 guns, 1321) machlno guns. 438 mine and bomb throwers and 2U2 powder carts. In addition, there were taken a larger number of rifles, thirty versts of small gauge railways, telegraphic materials and several depots of ammunition am-munition and engineering materials. |