HARD FIGHTING AT KOLOMEA.

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

HARD FIGHTING AT KOLOMEA.

ENEMY'S POSITIONS STORMED

ENEMY FLEEING IN VOLHYNIA

(United Service.)

(Received July 3, 6 p.m.)

Petrograd, July 2,

General Letchitsky's latest report from Kolomea states that, after intense fighting we*stormed the enemy's positions, capturing 2000 prisoners freshly brought to this region. The greater number were intoxicated.

The enemy ntade desperate attacks in the Volhynian sector.

The German offensive between the Styr and the Stokhod, in the region of the villages of Kopche and Zobary, was repulsed, as were also a series of attacks southward of Kisseline. The enemy's columns are fleeing, buffering irtavy losses. Fugitives were destroyed in masses.

We also repulsed reinforcement at-

tacks