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Show i In the Region of Kovel and Brody and Toward To-ward Stanislau General BrussilofFs Soldiers Continiie to Advance; Berlin and Vienna Admit Ad-mit Retirements. , MUSCOVITES TAKE MORE PRISONERS In Some Sectors They Suffer Great Losses and Are Repelled by Teutons; Attempts of Turks to Take Offensive Offen-sive Are Checked. BERLIN, July 30, via Sayville. Reports of a great conflagration at Petrograd, in which a bridge across the river Neva, twelve large steamers, including several trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic liners, and the Putiloff gun works and other estahlishm ents were destroyed, are printed in the Lokal Anzeiger. "On Tuesday the wooden palace bridge across the Neva took fire at several places. Immediately flam-ing flam-ing pontoons drifted to Vassili Ostrov (Basil island), where a huge ; fire broke out, and also to the port f where twelve large steamers, including includ-ing several trans-Atlantic liners, a floating dock, the Putiloff works j and other establishments took fire, "The police suspect that the con- t flagTation was the work of anar chists, who planned to burn all public pub-lic buildings being used for military mili-tary purposes."' v (Sperl9l Cable hv Arrangement with London Daily Telegraph a ad International News Service.) LONDON, July 30. On both wings of the present Russian line of attack General Brussiloff 's armies made f ur-fher ur-fher important headway during the last twenty-four hours. As a result the city of Stanislau, in southeastern Ga-licia, Ga-licia, converging point of five strategic railways, is closely menaced with envelopment en-velopment by the Russian left flank, while the right wing in its advance on Kovel, the great Volhynian railway center, cen-ter, has .broken through the Teuton first lines on the Kovel-Eohitr:he sector and is nov vigorously pushing the pursuit of the retreating defenders. In the center, cen-ter, too, where Lemberg, capital of Galicia, Ga-licia, is the Russian objective, further progress was made by the army of General Gen-eral Sakharoff. On the whole 1.10-mile front, from the east of Kovel down to the region just south of the Dniester, the Germans and Austrians continue on the defensive, stubbornly fighting for pvcry inch of ground. In yesterday's fighting the Russians took twenty-one oflicers and 940 men, among them many Germans, and captured cap-tured four guns and four machine guns. Drive Toward Stanislau. The most important progress made by the Russians since the fall hist Fri- day morning of Brody, fifty-eight miles : northeast of Letnberg, has been in the direction of Stanislau. The capture of Brody having brought the Russian ceu- ! tor on a level with the southern wing, the latter, which had marked time for j Home weekspromptly resumed its drive to the northwest and is now smashing forward agniust Staiflslau from the 1 northwest and southwest. Today's Aus-! Aus-! trian official statement says a Russian ' "wave" was stopped before the Aus trian second line east of Tlumach. This town lies only fourteen miles southeast of Stanislau. Simultaneously with the attack from this direction Russian forces were hurled against the Austrian lines from the northeast and southeast ; of Monaster.yska (west of Buczacz). 1 Heavy Russian Losses. : All attacks in this region were re- . ; pulsed, Vienna asserts, witli sanguinary ! ' losses to the attackers, "the foreground j being covered with dead and severely ' wounded Russians." Tonight's oflicial ! Petrograd report gives no details of the fighting in this area or on the Volliy-n Volliy-n i a u and Brody fronts, merely stating that ' ' in the region of Kovrl mid Hrody, and also sou th of the Dnifster. we continue to advance. 11 The new advance ad-vance of: the two Hanks is shown, however, how-ever, by the Russian afternoon report ami the Austrian oflicial statement, the ! former reporting the breaking of I lie i i Teuton first lines in Volhynia, while the latter admits the growing menace to Stanislau. The Russian advance on this eitv from the northeast is facilitated bv'the Buezaez-Stanislaii railway sector, toward which the Russian fpr'ces further fur-ther south are now driving. A belated Austrian odicial report says the Teutons regained ' ' a considerable part ' ' of the territory lost Friday southeast of Kovel. Since then, however, how-ever, the Russians have broken the defenders' de-fenders' new line in that region. Russian Official Report. The Petrograd oflicial report says: "Western front: More than twelve German aeroplanes effected a raid on Dvinsk and threw some seventy bombs on the place. Twelve of otntown machines ma-chines engaged the raiders and put them to flight. "An aviator of the cavalry staff, Captain Cap-tain Kosakoff, overtook one German machine ma-chine and, after a fierce fight, brought him to earth. Our flying squadron bombarded bom-barded the station at Elovka. "To the east of Baranovichi an en-emv en-emv aeroplane was brought down by us and two -aviators were taken prisoners. "On the river Stokhod our detachments detach-ments continue to fortify themselves on the left bank of the river. "Tn the Kovel and Brody areas nd also in the region to the south of the Dniester our troops continue to advance. "Caucasus front: In the region to the west of Gumisehany the Turks twice took the offensive, but were repulsed. In the directions of Sivas and Kharput the Turks again were driven from a series of strengthened positions." |