RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGNS.
BATTLE OF HALtCZ.
ENEMY'S FIRST LINE TAKEN:
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Service).. PETROGRAD, September 19. The poverty of information in tiio ■ Russian communiques indicates the importance of the desperate battle which is being fought in tho Halicz region. The Russians; since Saturday/ have eu^gaged in a general attack on the.Austrian and German trendies. Several villages and hills and roads had to bo taken and retaken again and again bofore'the Germans fell back. ' '
The fiercest fighting was' on *ho banks of the Narajowka.
-The Germans, instead of awaiting tho Russian infantry, threw troops on the Russian lines, but their attacks ended iri retreat. The Russians' pursued; them until the enemy's first lino w.as ; captured and consolidated.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
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117RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGNS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
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