The Archive · 1916

Initiative in Russian Hands

An official communique confirms Reuter's report of the Russian success near Czernowitz.

Whatever side began the offend sive, whatever gaps in events have to be filled up, a slight raising of the curtain covering the Sighting in Volhynia and Galicia points to the initiative on a front of 170 to 190 miles being now. Russian, The Russians seem to be firmly established across the River Styr northwards of Chartoriisk and an enemy flank attack seven miles southeastward of Kolky has failed to shake the solidarity of the new dispositions of the Ruseian forces.

Progress is also reported northwards of Olyka and therefore, parently, a move in being made in the direo: ion of Kovel along the two railways from Sarny to Kovel and from Rovno to Kovel.

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