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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 5

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A comnraiiaque says: i The Russian1 left, wing on TTriday captured f Kolon?,ea, a most impotentconverging point of railways in Bukovina. Theenemy qontiime to fall back westward to previously prepared positions. : '' The enemy noifhwad of Kimpblung are trying to assume : the.. offensive with larger forces. , fr : •; General Letcliitsky's troops are carrying but the, offensive.- under extremely difficult conditions. Torrential rains wrought havoc with the roads.' •■."•■■• :" ■■ ■■< '■'.;.'.": .7.''. ~., -. '•■..:

The enemy, north-west" 6i. the confluence of ; the 'Lipa "nnd s the. Styi:, took the offensive. Our troops, with imperturbable sang froid. Jet. .the enemy approach- the barbed wire, .arid then" shot them. \at 'poirif-blank 'range. ;■' ■ " '-.•'•■.' ~ ■;: V:'.- ;' ;■ - ' The prisoners ■to . date amount) to. 212,000. :; ' :;. ~■;,'-,