FURTHER PROGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, 28 July 1916, Page 5

FURTHER PROGRESS

WHAT THE ADVANCE ON BRODY MEANS. ENEMY ARMIES THREATENED WITH ENVELOPMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Julv 23, 9.25 a.m.) PETROGiRAD. July 27. The Russian approach to Brody threatens Bot'hmer's armies with envelopment and renders finally untenable the position of the enemy forces in the direction of Lemberg.

LUZK LINE STRAIGHTENED. (Australian and N.Z Cable Association., LONDON. July 27. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd cocresncndent report? that General Sakharoff is advancing alone; the railway connection between Lemberg and Stozanow. During the week his victories have straightened the lower edge of the ( I/uzk bulge, andi brought the front on 1 an equality with that before Tarnopol * Further surprises are hardly possib'o, as the enemy's vigilance has been tho ( rougbly aroused. 1 The Russian operations have become 1 objects of copl strategical and statistical 1 calculations. 1 i AN AUSTRIAN ADMISSION. (Australian and N.ZN Cable Association.) i c AMSTERDAM, July 27 < A Vienna communique admits tho 1 ■withdrawal south of Lesniow, behind - the Boldurya sector, as the result of su- i perior enemy pressure. i i GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. (Rec. Julv 28. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. A German communique says:—The Russians made a futile storming attack on Schitschara, north-west of Sjachow- ( itschit. The enemy was sanguinarily) repulsed westwards of Beresteczko. (Rec. Julv 28. 11.40 a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 27. - A communique says : —Fighting continues for possession of the rivers Slo- , nevski and Boldurovka.