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Show STAN1SLAU TAKEN BY RUSSTR00P5 ARMY OF THE CZAR CAPTURES ANOTHER GATEWAY TO THE CITY OF LEMBERG. French Capture Trenches Near Maurepas, While Italians Continue to Press Their Advance on Lower Isonzo Lines. London. Stanislau, next to Lem-berg Lem-berg the most important railway city in Galicia, has fallen to the Russians. General Letchitsky's army, which has been hammering at the city's gates for more than a week, taking one fortified barrier after another, captured its objective Friday in a swift dash across the river Czarnia Bystritza. The city's fall was officially offi-cially announced by Petrograd, and is admitted by the Austrian war office, of-fice, which, in its statement Friday, says: "We evacuated Stanislau without with-out a fight." The garrison and the army which had been defending the city's eastern east-ern approaches escaped. Fleeing northward along the Stanislau-Lem-berg railway, the Teuton forces are being hotly pursued in the direction of Halicz. The French to the north of the river Somme in France, in brilliant fighting, have captured trenches near Maurepas and a fortified quarry to the south of the Hem wood, according accord-ing to the French advices. Fighting between the British and Turkish forces in Egypt, east of the 6uez canal, continued on August 9 and 10, with no important successes for either side, according to an official offi-cial statement, counter-attacks caused caus-ed British cavalry to fall hack, but the Turks later retired to their entrenchments. en-trenchments. The Italians continue to press their advance on the lower Isonzo lines. They have now reached the line of the Vallone river, advancing, since the fall of Gorizla, about four miles on a front of twenty miles. The entire en-tire Doberdo plateau Is now in their possession, as well as the towns of Rubbia and San Martino del Carso. The number of Austrians taken prisoners pris-oners is reported to have been increased in-creased by several thousand. The Italians are now approaching the strong defensive line established by the Austrians in the mountains east of Gorizia, and a resumption of desperate battles for high peaks is expected to mark the new phase of the offensive. |