RUSSIAN ADVANCE ALONG THE RIVER STYR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16266, 27 June 1916, Page 7

RUSSIAN ADVANCE ALONG THE RIVER STYR.

ENEMY WEAKENED BY THEIR HEAVY LOSSES. TRENCHES FOUND FULL OF DEAD AND WOUNDED. (Received June 26. 10.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, JUNE 25. A communique states: "We carried by a coup de main a redoubt two miles south of Zminy, on the Styr, and bayoneted the garrison after a fierce resistan6e, capturing two heavy guns. Many German attacks on this front have been repulsed. The enemy is falling back owing to growing losses. We captured 800 unwounded prisoners, half of whom were Germans, and 15 machine-guns. The enemy trenches were filled with heaps of corpses, and men. suffering from bayonet wounds." PETROGRAD. JUNE 25. An earlier communique stated: "The Russians raided the enemy trenches west of Radsivilov, north-east of Brody, capturing 300 prisoners. The Russians west of Sniatyn, midway between Czernovitz and Kolomea, are advancing, fighting all the time. They have occupied the heights near Rybritza River." Some large British guns assisted General Brussiloff's advance. The River Styr rises 35 miles north-east of Lemberg. in the Austrian province of Galicia, and flows in a north-easterly direction across the frontier JO miles north of Brody, and then past Luck, in Volhynia, finally joining the .Haver Pripet about 30 miles south-west of Pinsk. Radsivilov is a Russian town on the frontier between South-western Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. It lies five miles north-east of Brodv, in Galicia. V„ it" 1 ™ m a tOWD ™ the eXtreme north of °™a, situated on the River .Truth, 20 miles north-west of Czernovitz. It has a population of 12 000 of ff TV *■* T* iD the VMe7 ° the River Pruth >* a **» "A" north o tcSic ßu t oVlman f ™ U " Ifc lies in the south-western "corner" district of Galicia, known as Pokucie, 23 miles north-west of Sniatyn