AN IMPORTANT SUCCESS.
Received July 23, 5.50 p.m. PETROGRAD, July 22. A communique says: Three thousand prisoners were taken at the junction of the Styr and the Lipa. General Sakharoffs troops were subjected to concentrated bombardment, when crossing the marshes in the Lipa Valley, but they crossed the river and routed the enemy, pouring a deadly fire on the fleeing columns. They took a thousand prisoners and several guns.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16704, 24 July 1916, Page 6
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69AN IMPORTANT SUCCESS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16704, 24 July 1916, Page 6
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