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Show RUSSIANS GAIN ON SERETH RIVER Defeat Austro-Germans and i Capture Five Villages in Northern Galicia. Paris, Aug.' 6. According to an official offi-cial announcement, tho number of prisoners taken by the French in the week of July 30 August 5, for the most part in the Meuse region, exceeded ex-ceeded 2,500. Paris, Aug. 6. Tn Northern Galicia the Russians have struck' another hard blow at tho Teutonic allies and occupied along the Sereth and Grab-erkl Grab-erkl rivers, south of Brody, six villages vil-lages and the entire ridge on which they are located. Furious fighting marked the engagement, en-gagement, tho Russians being forced In the villages to drive their adversaries adver-saries from house to house. The Austro-Germans at last reports were bombarding violently their last positions. posi-tions. In the fighting the Russians captured cap-tured a regimental commander and 140 other officers and more than 5,500 men and also took numerous machine guns and bomb-throwers. Berlin admits that the Russians have gained the left bank of the Sereth Se-reth river but asserts that the Germans Ger-mans have made progress against the French in the Chapitre wood near Verdun and in mining operations against them in the Argonne; that the Russians have been driven from positions along the Stokhod river south of Zarecze and that in the Carpathians Car-pathians the Germans are still operating oper-ating successfully. Slight advance for tho British at Hlghwood and east of Pozleres, on the Somme front and by the. French southwest of Estrees, south of the Somme and to the northwest of the Thlaumont work near Verdun are recorded re-corded in the British and French com-munlcntions. com-munlcntions. In the sector northwest of Pozieres the Germans, in an attack at-tack In which liquid fire was used, forced the British back along one of their trenches, but later the British regained the ground lost. The Germans Ger-mans are heavily bombarding the Thlaumont work and Fleury positions of the French. In Asiatic Turkey the Russians report re-port the capture of various places of new Turkish positions. In the Klalkit Chia river basin positions protected by five lines of trencheB were wrested wrest-ed from the Turks south of the Er-zlngan Er-zlngan and west of the village of Og-nut. Og-nut. Additional trenches and two heights were captured. In the region of Mush and Bltlis the Turks have assumed the offensive, but vPetrograd says they are being held by the Russian Rus-sian fire. In the Austro-ltalian theater the Austrians are heavily bombarding the Italian lines between the Adige and upper Isonzo rivers and the Pasubio area, while in the Sugana valley and the upper Vordevole valloy they launched Infantry attacks against the Italians. These, according to Rome, were repulsed. - Unofficial advices from Saloniki say the Serbians have taken from the Bulgarians the village of Remli, on the Macedonian front. oo CANOE UPSETS AND 3 LIVES ARE LOST Cedar Rapids, lowa, Aug. 6. Three persons were drowned here at noon today in the Cedar river, when a canoe in which they were rowing was upset. up-set. The dead: RALPH I. OL.NEY, 22 years old. BEATRICE WHITNEY, 17 years old. EDNA WHITNEY, 13 years old. They had been bathing in the river and were rowing up the stream when the accident occurred. The bodies were recovered. |