THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14129, 4 July 1916, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

AN IRRESISTIBLE ONSLAUGHT.

GERMAN ATTACKS EAST OP

GENERAL LETCH ITSKYS ADVAftCE.

KOVEL

(United Service.)

Petfcgrad, July 2. , General Letehitsky, after the seizure of Kolomea, is irresistibly smashing a way between the Pruth and the Dniester, striving to cut all communications between Bukowina and Galicia, and threaten the flank and rear of the principal Austrian army massed with bases on Galaiz and lembtrg.

The Germans cast of Kovel continue fierc3 attacks between the Upper Stokod and the Upper Styr, hoying to break the Russian line. They have already launched' forty fresh battalions without success.

Cossacks cut the railway near Gurahumara, in Bukowina.

-An Austrian troop train proceeding to Doniawatra was derailed, two hundred iren being killed.