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Show 'ISSIIIS ; III THE : TEUTDH1G I DEFENSES Ernies of the Czar Go Through First Lines ' of the Austro-Germans .V to the Southwest of V; Kovel; Defenders Are 'Driven Into Disorder-' Disorder-' ly Retreat. I PRISONERS TAKEN NUMBER 32,653 7 Victors Also Within 20 J Miles of Stanislau, in v the South; Austrian V and Berlin War Offices Make Partial Admis- : sions of Defeat. i ICSMX, Ju't 29. Immediately ct:c lie fall or Bro?v( in northeastern ' iGsii::a, yerrercav, the "watchful wait-irr wait-irr ;rra?gv' that had been forced Russian armies in central Yoi-: Yoi-: Ijziz izi ii southern Galicia pending : I r:;sk of the Austrian resistance ' on ' tie Broiv-Lesraioff road gave way to V resr:t:oa of a concerted drive by Gsf.-a; Bruisilofi's armies on the.vhole : frcnt from east of Kovel down to the rEiH south of the Dniester, a battle line sore than 150 miles long. As a result of the last twentv-four . lours ti? Russians have broken through tie eutire Austro-Gerraan first lines to tie southwest of Kovel, driven the de-fettters de-fettters iuto disorderly retreat, and in tte south have advanced within twenty I tiles of Stanislaa, the converging point of rove important strategic railways ' :::"fl ecrtmaud the supply system of i tie whole southern army chain of the ) Austro-Hungurians. 32,553 Prisoners. .-' t today's and Friday's battles alone to Sussians took 32.653 prisoners, in- ' t::u:g (551 officers and two generals, lui captured fifty-five Teuton guns. 'wotiug to the statement issued by the fettograd war office today. . Iue total number of Teuton prison- ' er- taien ja the first half of thg Rus flan suEmer campaign just closing is ratel at 350.000 by a semi-official estate es-tate given in the Russian capital. Tu? most important success scored by tie Busslans since Friday morning is sivance on Stanislau. The menace a possible flanking attack from the iwth being removed by the capture of ard the subsequent Russian ad-Tauoe ad-Tauoe toivard Lemberg, only fifty-eight 5 '7..a7ra-v' tie softhern wing of Brus-sloif Brus-sloif t army smashed ahead in a fu-n'3S fu-n'3S onslaught just south of the Dniester Dnies-ter and captured the town of Izerzanv, tweity miles below Stanislau. Captured by Cossack Te town was captured by a Cossack "vain- division. Co-operating with the .t advancing on Stanislau from the Bttheast are the Russian forces which "ve been marking time to the west of Mzacz, waiting for the northern s7 to pour into Galicia. The town t Iwaach, a little more ttan six miles K-t-east of Stanislau, is the immediate Jjjeotive of the southeastern army, E'anV"' uczacz armv is threatening Ian iiu ?m the northeast. Stanis- u i.es eighty.two miles almost due -a of brodv. i- vitSr:;Thi,le t'he Russian Volhvnia army Teu'?ni J5 PushlnK the pursuit of the ai-anJ f,1,0'... which were forced to thpVJ r nrst line positions, and of Kove1' the &ief "Kkctive The a -S center f.'"ws ominous v. W A- nan, war office statement fe esTf L3vthe with,Jrawal of the iitir. r have be,!n stubbornly re-fiver re-fiver aJ W.leka beteen the Turvea Th. f tbe Eovno-Kovel railway. l( ,;7(!.reI"fi to the south bank a'tta"?'1 T'tCr rePlsing storm-that storm-that lhe statement asserts t of r emtor-v was recaptured tor.h"i'trV,n4, the Russian attacks fT'JiiM Sioikul, on the Styr, were Vet Admitted. cwfhu' of hr"'ly, though foreslnd-trjt foreslnd-trjt vpt ,u,:f?'K,brs yi'-nr.a report, is Ldmitted by the Austrian war (Continued on Page Three.) RUSSIANS BREAK THE TEUTONIC DEFENSES (Continued from Page One.) office. The city's capture was again reported by Petrograd today. The official statement from general headquarters, issued today, reads: Our ' troops have constructed bridges on the river Stokhod in the region of Gulevitehi and have crossed to the left bank, where they are strengthening the positions they have taken up. Enemy aeroplanes made their appearance ap-pearance in the region of Loeis-chin Loeis-chin and over the Maneviuhie station, where they dropped some bombs. In the Kovel-Rojitche region our ' troops continue to advance. The enemy is retreating behind the Stokhod river. A large number of enemy aeroplanes rlew over our positions po-sitions in a direction to the southwest south-west of Lutk, dropping bombs on i the way and firing upon our troops with nahine gun. To the south of the Dniester the i enemv was pursued by our troops ; in the direction of Stanislau and fled to positions previously prepared by him. Details regarding the booty captured cap-tured are still so incomplete that it is only possible to give them in a : verv approximate manner. It. how-: how-: ever. ha"s been ascertained that the : troops under General Brussiloff during Julv 29 and 2f captured two penerals. more than 050 officers and 3-.U00 men, including a considerable consider-able Dumber of Germans. About 100 gnns, including twenty-nine heavv howitzers, have been captured. This includes twenty-one guns taken hv General Letchitsky troops. EUhty-nve machine guns also were I taken by his troops. , ! During the three days ' battle fought bv General Sakharoff 's I troops, 216" officers. 13, .'59 men, nine ( guns, fortv machine guns, and about 15.000 rirles were captured. How- ; ever, it is just possible that some : of these were included in the num- j ' ber above given. , ' The total number of captures i ! made bv General Sakharoff's men ; i from July 16 to 23 are 940 officers. 39.153 men, forty-nine guns, of which seventeen are howitzers; 100 i machine guns, thirtv-nine mine and 1 bomb throwers, eighty limbers and peventv-six cartridge wagons; also fortv-e'ight machine guns mounted on wheels and six artillery and engineering engi-neering depots. |