HUGE CAPTURES OF AMMUNITION.
•: ■ PETBSOGRAD, 17th June./ An official asserts that the ammunition captured in the present offensive would suffice for an entire army^for several weeks.
A HEROIC SACRIFICE.
PETROGRAD, 17th June. A Russian communique says : Fighting continues south of Polesie (the Pripet marshes). The enemy has suffered heavy losses. We took 1750 prisoners during a powerful but fruitless counter-attack by the enemy in the Styr region, near Hokul Cavalry continues the pursuit of the enemy west and south-west of Lutsk.
/ General Sakharoff's troops, after desperate fighting, dislodged the enemy from a fortified position on the river Pluichevka. One of our young regiments forded the river with, the water up to the chins. One company was engulfed and died a heroic death, but the valour of the men's comrades resulted in a disorderly flight of the enemy, of whom five thousand were made prisoner. Many machine guns and thousands of rifles were captured.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 144, 19 June 1916, Page 7
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