Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — RUSS CAPTURE LUTSK [ARTICLE]

RUSS CAPTURE LUTSK

PETROGRAD CLAIMS AUSTRIANS HAVE BEEN DEFEATED. , 11,050 More Prisoners Taken—Teutons Driven From Positions in Volhynia and Galicia. Petrograd, June 9 (via London). — The capture of Lutsk, in Volhynia, and also of a series of powerfully organized Austrian positions, is announced in an ■ official communication given out here. In addition to the Austrians previously captured in the offensive movement recently inaugurated, the statement says there were captured in yesterday’s fighting 58 officers and 11,000 men. A large amount of war material also was taken. It is stated that the Austrian lines have been withdrawn nearly twenty miles throughout the Lutsk sector. Lijtsk is the apex of a triangle of fortresses whose- base line, extending from Dubno to Rovno, lies to the southeast. These fortresses were captured by the Austrians last fall after long and severe fighting, during which Lutsk changed hands several times. The communication says: “On Tuesday we developed our offensive in the direction of Rovno and Kovel, and. keeping on the heels of the overthrown enemy and following a battle in the region of LutSk, we occupied that town In many places we have seized not only the lines of the rivers Ikwa and Styr, but have crossed them and continued our offensive. "In Galicia, on the lower Stripa, our infantry, supported by artillery fire, captured by an energetic advance a number of powerful enemy organized position on the front of Trziboukho vtsky-Jazlovets and have arrived quite near the line of the Stripa river. “In addition to the 40,000 prisoners previously taken, we took in the course of yesterday’s fighting 58 officers and about 11,000 men and captured a number of guns and machine guns and a quantity of other weapons. “The results of the engagements from the fourth to the seventh in Volhynia and Galicia permit us to consid- j er that we have already gained an im- ! portant victory, which is crowned by a great breach in the enemy’s fortified front.” Vienna (via wireless to London, June 9. —Official: “Russian theater: We have reached our new positions on the Styr and have repulsed Russian attacks along the Strypa. On the lower Strypa the stnang Russian offensive continues. “Italian theater: On the Asiago plains we have gained ground on the . whole front. Since the beginning of June we have captured 12,400 Italians.”