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Show Driving Back Teutons t 1 on Russo-Galician Frontier. 5 1 British and French Mold- I j ing Grip on Belgian Line. - J - t PETROGRAD, Aug. 4. North of If W Hussiatyn, on the Russo-Galician fron- Wi tier, the Austro-German rear guards ,ex" Jj yesterday were driven from their po- sitlons on tho eastern bank of the I ! River Zbrodz, says the official state- ) ment Issued today by the Ruslan war I department. Forty-three prisoners wore taken and seven machine guns j. jltfjl were captured. t Between the rivers Dnefster and 1 Pruth and in the Carpathians the Rus-sian Rus-sian troops still are retiring to the i eastward. The Russian war office statement says that a battle between Russians jH and Teutons Is raging to the north- east of Kimpoulung, in southern Bukowlna. The Austro-Germans have fH occupied tho town of Dorha Watra. jH Germans Yield Ground- While there has been no renewal IH of the smashing offensive on a large IH scale inaugurated by the Anglo- IH French forces In Flanders on Tues- H day, the incessant pressure on the German lines is beginning to tell in the further yielding oi ground. V. The British yesterday again ostab-i ostab-i llshed themselves in the village of St. , Julien, which they lost during a German Ger-man counter attack closely follow- ' 4, ing the initial dash. Last night the f French in turn moved ahead in their IJU ' sector making further progress west , of the Cabaret of Kortekeer. Wm j To the south, on the Arras battle H front, the British have renewed their ' IH grip on their old line, completing Jast 1 Jk night the recapture of the positions the Germans, took from ihCm Thursday mmmW night at Infantry Hill, east of Monchy H Le Prcux. H I The Russians now are fighting H hard against the advancing Austro- H German forces on the front near the IH 1 Galician border and in B,ukowina, the H Petrograd reports indicate. The drlv- jH I ing back of Teutonic forces which H had crossed the Zbrocz north of Husi- H atyn is announced and a battle is re- JH ported raging north of Kimpolung, in IH southern Bukowina, which the Rus- IH 1 sians recently evacuated. lH I The Russians are still retreating In H the region between the Dniester and the Pruth, however, and in the Carpa-thians Carpa-thians the evacuations of Dorna Watra by the Russian forces is announced. It jH was in tho vicinity of Dorna Watra P tH that the Russian line linked itself with j jH the Rumanian front, which apparent-ly apparent-ly is now being menaced by the Rus-slan Rus-slan retrograde movement. French Troops Advance iJ PARIS, Aug. 4. Despite the con- tinued bad weather along the battlo P front in Belgium, says an official f statement issued this afternoon by 'the 1 WmJM 1 X' 1 UUV.ll , ill VJ111V.V, A 1 VJ11V.11 nwwiiu r jH I pushed forward last night advancing j beyond the Cabaret of Kortekeer. f iH Italians Repulse Enemy ,. I ROME, Aug. 4. More important of- I fensivo actions were taken by the jH Austro-Hungarians on Thursday and Friday night against the Italian posi- tions east of Yertoiba and on Monte jH Rombon, it was announced officially today. All the attacks failed. Italian air squadrons last night again bombarded the Austrian arsenal AJ and military works of Pola, the state- HMH ment adds, causing great destruction H big jH |