HUGE RUSSIAN CAPTURES
•GENERALS. OFFICERS. A TEX". AND GUNS. EI ST NOT YET COMPLETE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 31. 9.10 a.m-.) PETROGRAT). July 30. A communique says details of the booty and 'prisoners are. incomplete. Itis ascertained that Brussilofr on the 28th and 29th took prisoner .two generals. 651 officers, and 32.000 men. including many •Germans, and also 79 guns including 29 heavy howitzers, in Addition 21 guns taken by Leichitsky. Sakaroff's forces in a three davs' battle took prisoner 216 officers, 13.569 men, and nine guns. Sakiroff's captures on/the 16th t-o 29th •number 940 officers and 31,952 men also 49 guns, 39 mine throwers and six artillery engineering depots.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 5
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