PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 5

PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

"FIGHTING ALL THE WAY" . BOMBARDMENT OF PRZEMYSL BEGUN (Rec. March 16, 8.5 p.m.) , , , , Petrograd, March 15. Official.— We have progressed along the whole of the Prasnysz front from the Mlava railway to the Orjiec River (East Prussian offensive), and on the left bank of the latter, fighting all the way. The German counter-attacks 1 were everywhere repit'sed. Cur guns at Fort Osowiec wrecked several of the t enemy's siege batteries, which were of heavy calibre guns." j (Rec. March 16, 11.15 p.m.) j m. r. . , „ Petrograd, March 16. < The Russian and German lines in the Prasnysz region are so close that * large masses of troops are not able to move freely./ t . RUSSIAN GUNS OPEN FIRE ON FORT PRZEMYSL. ' (Rec. March 16, 11.15 p.m.) _ *j i, v* . POtrograd, March 16. The capture of Malkowice has enabled the Russians to approach close to the outworks of Fort Przemjsl, and the bombardment has begun. GERMANS BUILDING A STRATEGIC RAILWAY. dlec. March 16, 5,20 p.m.) ~, , , London. March 15. „ The Germans in the neighbourhood of Sieradz, in Sottth-Wcst Poland + have commenced to build a strategic railway, using Hie forced labour of tllou- t' sands from the villages. . . [Sieradz is 30 miles south-cast of Kalis?; (near the Posen frontier), and 35 » miles south-west of Lodz.] Q g FIGHTING IN THE CARPATHIANS. The High Commissioner reports (London, March 16, 4.80 p.m.):— "A report from Petrograd states t that in tho Carpathians the Austrian attacks, which were directed at Baligrod, and German attacks near Koszi- n owa, were repulsed. In Eastern Galicia tho enemy were thrown back in the region north of Obertyn." AUSTRIANS CLAIM HUGE CAPTURES. (Rto. March 16, 11.15 p.m.) , , Amsterdam, March 16. h „ A S> Austrian communique states;— 1 "W» hav 6 repulsed th& Russians in th* ll 1 Jheuwnd# of prbtm»i\f ; Ws drov« hack the Euwunt *1 nerta of th« Usioi; Pass Along th« «atir« frcnt<"' U