THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14128, 3 July 1916, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

CAPTURE OF KOLOMEA.

ENEMY FALLING BACK TO THE

WEST.

WEATHER DIFFICULTIES IN

BUKOWINA

(United Service.)

(Received July 2 3 5.5 p.m.)

Petrograd, July 1

A communique states that the Russian left wing on Friday captured Kolomea, the most important converging point of the railways in Bukowina.

The enemy continue to fall back to the westward to previously prepared

positions.

The enemy north-west of Kirnpolung are trying to resume the offensive with larger forceg.

General Lechitsky's troops are carrying out the offensive under extremely difficult conditions. Torrential rains have wrought havoc with the roads.

The enemy north-west of the confluence of the Zlota Lipa and the Styr took the offensive. Our troops, with imperturbable sangfroid, let the enemy approach the barbed wire; and then shot them down at point blank range. The prisoners taken number 212,000.

Ivolomea is situated on the Pruth, in Austrian Galicia, 43 miles by rail N.W. of Czernowitz, It is near a rich petroleum region. The population is about 36,000.