Stokhod
a small river in eastern Galicia, along whose banks desperate fighting took place during the World STOKHOD STOMACH War, between Austrian and German abdominal cavity, and having the form troops and the Russians. It was in this region, during July, 1916, when the Russian armies were driving the Teutons before them, that the Germans made a determined stand. Victorious along all other parts of the Eastern front, the Russians made futile attacks with very strong forces at several points against the German line along the Stokhod river, notably near Czereviscze, Janmaka and on both sides of the railway running from Kovel to Rovno. Here, during the middle of July, 1916, the Germans received strong re-enforcements and powerful artillery. It was the German resistance here which saved the whole front of the Central Empires from a crushing defeat.