FEROCIOUS FIGHTING IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 5

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES

HUGE GERMAN LOSSES ENEMY CROSSES THE DNIESTER IN GALICIA (Rec. June 8, 11.30 p.m.) Petrograd, June 8. The fighting in tha German raid on the Baltic provinces yields to none in determination and ferocity. The Germans have sent three army corps in, one after another. Russians and fought in the water in a section of the River Aubissa, extending for half a mile. When the Germans attacked, many of them fell under rifle fire, but the bayonet charges accounted for many more. Even slightly wounded Germans, were drowned, as the current was too swift to allow the wounded to swim against it. Five times in oue day the banks of the Dubissa changed hands. The river ran red for hours, and the dead choked the bed for hundreds of yards. The Russians were finally victorious, and the battle ended by the artillery advancing over many thousand corpses to complete the German discomfiture. AUSTRIANS NEARING GALICIAN CAPITAL. (Ree. June 8, 3.15 p.m.) Copenhagen, June 7. A Vienna telegram that the 'Austrians are within nine and a quarter miles of Leniberg, the capital of Galicia. (Rec. June 8, 8.15 p.m. Amsterdam, June 8. The German and Austrian communiaues claim that General Linsingen ha.s stormed the bridgehead at Zaravno (20 miles east of Stryj), and gained a footing on the northern bank of the Dniester. Thirty-three thousand eight hundred and five Russians have been taken prisoner in the Przemysl battles since June 1. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, Jnne 8, 7.5 p.m. "In Galicia the enemy has crossed the Dniester, in the region of Zaravno. "On the Pruth, west of IColomea, the enemy were repulsed. Upwards of 5000 Austrian dead were abandoned in front of one Russian division, and 700 prisoners were taken."