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still more their new positions southeast of Olyka station, and to gain
some more ground there. Repeated Austro-Hungarian counterattacks were
repulsed. The same fate was suffered by determined infantry attacks on
the Russian trenches in the region of the Tarnopol-Pezerna railway, in
spite of the fact that these attacks were made in considerable force
and were supported by strong artillery and rifle fire. Later the same
day an engagement between reconnoitering detachments in the same
region, southwest of Tarnopol, resulted in the capture of one Russian
officer and 100 men by their Austro-Hungarian opponents.

Minor engagements between scouting parties and outposts were the rule
of the day on May 5, 1916. These were especially frequent in the
region of Tzartorysk on the Styr, just south of the Kovel-Kieff
railway and south of Olyka station where Austro-Hungarian troops were
forced to evacuate the woods east of the village of Jeruistche. A
slight gain was made on May 6, 1916, by Russian troops in Galicia, on
the lower Strypa River, north of the village of Jaslovietz.

Extensive mining operations, which, of course, were carried on at all
times at many places, culminated successfully for the Russians in the
region northwest of Kremenets on the Ikva and south of Zboroff on the
Tarnopol-Lemberg railway. In the latter place Russian troops crept
through a mine crater toward a point where Austro-Hungarian
engineering troops were preparing additional mines and dispersed the
working parties by a shower of hand grenades.

Throughout the balance of May operations along the southern part of
the eastern front consisted of continued artillery duels, of frequent
aeroplane attacks, and of a series of unimportant though bitterly
contested minor engagements at many points, most of which had no
relation to each other, and were either attacks on enemy trenches or
attempts at repulsing such attacks. Equally continuous, of course,
also were scouting expeditions and mining operations. None of these
operations, however, yielded any noticeable results for either side,
and the story of one is practically the story of all. The result of
the artillery duels frequently was the destruction of some advanced
trenches, while occasionally a munitions or supply transport was
caught, or an exposed battery silenced. Mining operations sometimes
would also lead to the destruction of isolated trenches, and thus
change slightly the location of the line. But