July 7. The following official statement was issued tonight by the War Office:
"The number of prisoners, we took on July 4 and 6 during the fighting which still is going on west of the line of the Styr and below the town of Kolki, totals more than 100 officers and 7,415 men, mostly unwounded. We also captured six guns, twenty-three machine guns, several thousand rifles, two searchlights, eleven bomb throwers and seventy-three ammunition lights. We repulsed violent German attacks on the right bank of the Dniester. In the region of Jidatt, sheff and Hotzlerx, there was desperate fighting. There was a lively artillery duel in many sectors of the front north of the Plaisk marshes. East of Baranovich, the enemy launched several desperate counterattacks, which we repulsed. Several times the enemy opened gusts of fire with his heavy and light guns against the region of the village of Labuzy, east of Baranovich. Under cover of this fire the enemy delivered two violent counterattacks. We drove him back on both occasions, bringing to bear on him the fire of our artillery, machine guns and rifles."
RESULTS DECLARED NOT FAVORABLE TO THE WAR
BERLIN, July 7 (via London, 5:12 P.M.).—The result of heavy engagements that were in progress all last night both north and south of the River Somme was not unfavorable to the war.  Germans, the War Office announced today.
A salient of the German line, in Volhynia projecting towards Czartorysk, has been abandoned under superior pressure by the Russians and a new line of defense selected it was announced today by the War Office. The repulse of Russian attacks on both sides of Sokul, in the Volhynian region, is reported. 