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Show . m, EnriT il ULI I .8 l litAI I I Uuu I Czar's Troops Have f i! Over 172,009 Prison- til ers Defeat Germans. til' 111 While the weight of German mill- IB H tary power is being increasingly felt W Ejj on the eastern front where It has stif- Is KJ fened the Austrian resistance to the ! Hjf drive of the Russians, the pressure 9l Mj j on the French at Verdun has momen- fj Eft j tarily lessened. 3 IcH Athens dispatches forecast probable ft Ig1 j changes in the Greek ministry as a if isj 5 result of the economic pressure which iffj the allies have exerted because of S Jl& their dissatisfaction with the Greek fi ESiiir government's attitude. Resignation IK m of the cabinet of Premier Skouloudis j ilML is expected in some quarters. J ISli Petrograd, June 21, via London, 7:30 S ljj 1 P. m. The war office announced to- -ff lw j day that the number of men captured Et.j! by the Russians in the offensive in H jj&, Volhj'nia and Gaiicia up to Thurs- KK S day of last week was 172.484. laf ' The official announcement says s HE a, that. In a severe engagement on the ff Jm Si Stokhod river, German troops which ( En made an attack in massed formation, tf mtU were repulsed and took to flight. f Kit" "The total number of prisoners ta- Rj lf ken by General Bruslloff from June 3 ffl to 15 Inclusive," says the statement, rk; "was 3350 officers and 169,134 men. miW We also captured 198 guns, 550 ma- f Kali chine guns, 189 bomb throwers, 119 J gPsR. artilery limbers. 34 searchlights and a 1 1 Rgjjg large quantity, of other war material." j Kmu I v Army Cut In Two. if j.Jl London, June 21, 12:11 p. m. Con- 5ll firmation of reports of the cutting in (ji 94jl two of General Pflanser's army In ! Wfll Bukowlna are contained in a dispatch BHill to the Star from Petrograd today. lfc ffjjfl When the Austrlans retired from Czer- 1 1 P-'mI nowitz the correspondent says, part of ' j gSigjl them retreating due south along the f WKisI Rumanian border an dothers toward Itnil the Carpathians, their .hope was to 4jj Egwfl have time to hold the Russians on the I j w3B fortified line running from Kuty to If !JhM Sereth along the rivers Mlkhorda and 1 1" glffl Sereth. But despite the delay caused , c fflfM by the prolonged defense of Czerno- Is fl witz, General Letchltzaky threw his ji Ku'H reserves upon the heels of the retreat- j jj iJL'B ing Austrians at such speed that ho ' j mil M succeeded in reaching that line sim- If 8&J&H ultnneously with them. lff;fl The result was that General Pflan- RrJM ser's forces were cut in half midway f'ljfl between Kuty and Sereth at Strogl- j jjUfH net" tttNw rlfrfl Paris, June 21. 11:50 a. m. A vie- ji grajH lent attack on the French positions j 'gftiiH northwest of Rheiras was made by the I ;;tfH Germans last night at Hill No. 100 (fSW and in the direction of Berry-au-Bac, Js;HH according to an official statement is- I)1r&'H sued by the war office today. The Iltb!M attack was repulsed by tho French ar- flltnfl Lillery. I l.jr dH The Germans exploded two mines W wi'jH before launching their infantry against Kj S7;'jH the French trenches. Their repulse, 1 nFH .i.. u ft MfirriiH ' tne statement says, wts uue iu ma w rj, effectiveness of the French screen 8 KH fire. I tIH In the Verdun sector no infantry $ H'1;H action was reported but a mutual fijl bombardment was maintained during luH the night. PpI The text of the statement follows: i j wfH "South of the Somme. before Mau- B l'-" court, a detachment of the enemy ft which utfempted to approach our lines j PH was dispersed with rifle fire e eIH "Northwest of Rheims the Germans, ft EH after exploding two mines delivered I F-jH an attack against the trenches at Hill (1 IH No. 10S south of Berry-au-Bac. Check- I lUH ed by our curtain of fire thlB attack f H was "defeated completely. ( H "On both banks of the Meuse (Ver- t dun front) our -artillery and that of " the enemv were rather active during ' L'H the night" 'H :H Hlndenburg Not Sunk. - New York, June 21. The German J H battleship Hindenburg did nottakfl vH part, as unofficially reported, in the sea battle between the British and H German fleets off Jutland, according to Charles Hagemeister, a banker oi i'l Mexico City, whp arrived here today H on tho steamship Oscar II from Copen- ,H hagen. -H Mr. Hagemeister said that two day -H after the battle he was in a German j H port, the name of which he would noi H reveal, and saw there the Hindenby' J H riding at anchor without a mar" I rH |