AN AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14145, 24 July 1916, Page 5

AN AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE

RETIREMENT ON THE LIPA

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(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Amsterdam, July 21. ffi An Austrian communique says:— "Russian advances at Capuli Hill, in Bukowina, were repulsed. Russian attacks near Jamna, south-westward of Delatyn, broke down. The enemy attacked after artillery preparations lasting for several'days in the sector at the mouth of the Lipa. Their advance via Werben was arrested. Nevertheless we withdrew from salient positions before a new and threatening surrounding movement in the Beresteczc re-

gion."