THE RUSSIAN THEATRE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN THEATRE.

FICHTINC ON THE STVR.

STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION OF

TRIBUTARIES

RUSSIANS: NEARrNG: BRODY

AUSTRIANS THREATENED "WITH

ENVELOPMENT

(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.)

Petrograd, July 27. ■ A communique says: Figlrfcing continues for possession of the rivers Slonevski .and Bpldurtfvka, tributaries of the Styr. : ,/ "''•/■.. - . ..;■"•.'v.

The Russian approach to Brody threatens Bothmer's a\-mieg with envelopment' and: renders finally.- untenable the position of the enemy forces in the direction of Lemberg.