OCCUPATION OF CZERNOWITZ
DESPERATE FIGHT FOR RIVER
FORDS.
(Received June 19, 3 p.m.)
PETROGRAD, 18th June.
A communique states: Despite the enemy's . resistance,-• marked by many counter-attacks, all successfully repuk-1 ed,. we are closely pressing- the enemy in various .directions. . ■ . ■
General Letchitsky on Saturday afternoon carried by; assault the Czernowitz bridgehead, on" the left bank of ;the Pruth. :After a desperate fight for the river fords, the enemy having blown up the bridges, we occupied Czernowitz.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 144, 19 June 1916, Page 8
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