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Show RUSSIANS TAKE MANYPRISONERS Five Big Guns, 22 Machine Guns and 6,250 Teutons -Taken in Tuesday's Fight. Pursuit of Retreating Turks Continues Depot of War Materials Taken at Erzingan. Petrograd, July 27, via London, 3;4S i) m In the battle on Tuesday on the Russian western tront. 0,250 Teutons Teu-tons were taken prisoner, says tho official statement issued today by tho Russian war department. Tho Rub. sians also captured five guns and 22 machine guns. Russian troops operating In the Caucasus Cau-casus are continuing their pursujt of tho retreating Turks, the statement 'savs In tho Turkish fortress of Erzingan, Erz-ingan, the capture of which was announced an-nounced yesterday, the Russians took a depot of war materials. The statement says: "Western front: During the night of Wednesday nearly a company of the enemv launched an attack south of Lake Voltchlno north of Lako Mi,- , adziol. The attackers wore driven back to their trenches. "In the district of Lobuzy, southeast south-east of Baranovichi there were artillery artil-lery duels and engagements with our front lino detachments. "An attack' by an enemy detachment detach-ment of about 50 or 60 men launched Wednesday in the region of TJrochis-tch TJrochis-tch Bereznole, northeast ot Lake Vygona, wa-s repulsed. "In the region of the river Slonevka Slonev-ka and on the river Boldurodka fights are proceeding for possession of the river crossings. Our troops have advanced ad-vanced at some points. "The number of prisoners taken In Tuesday's battle on the western front total 128 officers and 6,250 men. Five guns and 22 machine guns were captured. cap-tured. "Caucasus front: We continue our pursuit of the retreating Turks. In Erzingan we took a depot of war materials." |