THE SOUTHERN FRONT

Nelson Evening Mail, 1 August 1916, Page 5

THE SOUTHERN FRONT

BRUSILOFF'S LINE STRAIGHTENED. FREEDOM OF MANOEUVRE RETAINED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 30. The Morning Post's "Petrograd correspondent states that Genera! Brusitoff has straightened his front, which runs along the Kolomea meridian. It consists of a 250 mile line from the ri\rer Prip?t to the Carpathians, thence for another hundred miles into Transylvania. It bulges westward a dozen miles towards Kovel and Vladimir Volynski, and from Kolomea it bulges again westward 9.0 miles. Otherwise the line runs north and south. Tt is sixty miles westward of' the positions occupied seven wee.es ago. General Brusiloff retains perfect freedom to manoeuvre, whereas strategica'ly the enemv are practically immobilised. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says the Russians have taken 400.000 prisoners in the last eight weeks. The enemy's losses in killed and wounied cannot be calculated. ,- A Russian ccrnunmique states that the fightin gopj the Stokhod' is developing in our favour. Our detachments at Kovel, and also southward, of th? Rovitchi-Kovel railway broke throtygh the first line and continue to advance. We are attacking southward of Pustomytz.