AUSTRO-GERMANS DRIVEN BACK OVER THE DNEETER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2487, 14 June 1915, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANS DRIVEN BACK OVER THE DNEETER

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED LARGE CAPTURES BY THE RUSSIANS Petrograd, June 11. Official."We drove back on Thursday to the right bank of the Dniester the strong forces which had crossed to the loft, near Zaravno, and extended to Sivka. The enemy sustained heavy losses. We captured seventeen guns, forty-nine machine-guns, 188 officers, and 6500 Austro-Uerman soldiers, including an entire company of the Prussian Guard. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports:— London, June 11, 12.40 p.m. "In the Shavli region, on both shores of Lake Rakiewo, on Tuesday and Wednesday, German attacks were repelled . "On the right bank of the Pilica small enemy forces mado nn attack, but were repulsed. Scores of prisoners were taken." London, June 12, 12.35 p.m. "On Thursday and Friday determined German attacks were delivered west of Shavli, on the Koujilace-Rakievo-Einroaitsky front. At some points the enemy reached our barb-wire defences, but each time were thrown back, leaving piles of dead and wounded. "On the loft bank of the Dubissa, Shavli-Anybetigola front, the Russians assumed the offensive, gaining on Thursday an important success, and taking 500 prisoners, with guns, mitrailleuses, and other booty. "On the light bank of the Dniester on Wednesday and Thursday the Russians continued to press the enemy between the Rivers Tismenica and Svikka, capturing prisoners and quick-firers and other booty. "A hostile, armoured train and five armoured motor-cars, supporting the enemy's infantry in the direction of tho Stryj-Mikolaieff front, were compelled to retreat. "The whole of the fifth company of the Seventy-Ninth Austrian Regiment wore made prisoners. "On the Golechove-Boukdezovtoy front the enemy was completely defeated and thrown across the Dniester, losing severely, ten guns, eighteen mitrailleuses, and prisoners being captured. "11l the direction of Strvj the Russians made 1100 prisoners." THE RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE SUCCESSES ON VARIOUS FRONTS. (Rec, Juno 13, 3.30 p.m.) Pstrograd, June 12. Official.—"The enemy's repeated and determined attacks westward of Shavli were repulsed, leaving piles of killed and wounded in front of our trenches. We took prisoner five hundred, and captured guns and mitrailleuses. "Oil the left of the Dubissa tie enemy continued his fruitless attacks. "In the Mosciska region we continued on Wednesday night to press the enemy between the Tismenica and Svika Rivers, capturing many prisoners, with quick-firers and other booty. ' Tho enemy, with a view to covering his retreat, dispatched an armoured train and five armoured motor-cars to support his infantry towards tho Stryj-Mikolaieff front. Our accurate gun fire compelled these to effect a rapid retreat. In this action the head of our column of infantry, which developed an energetic offensive, captured the whole of the fifth company of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment. Tho enemy in his defeat on the left bank of the Dniester sustained especially severe losses in Prussian Guards. We captured ten guns and eighteen mitrailleuses. "The enemy's attacks on the bridgehead near Halitz (on the Dniester, north of Stanislau) compelled us to modify our front, occupying the Pruth line. In the course of tins operation we abandoned Stanislau. "We repelled German attacks at Podlugic, and took'prisoner one thousand of the enemy further south." Mociska is 17 miles east of Przemysl, and immediately south of the Lem-berg-Przemysl railway. Tho Tysmenian River enters the Dniester (from the south), south and a little we?t of Lemberg. The River Svika runs nort'h to enter the Dniester 30 miles further east. Mikolaief is two miles north of the Dniester, due south-of Lemberg, from which place it is twenty miles distant. Zaravno is on the southern bank of tie Dniester, 23 miles southeast of Mikolaief. Sivka, on tho same bank, is twelve miles further east and Halitz is ten miles further along the river, also on the southern side' Stauislav is fifteen miles south of Halitz. GERMAN ADVANCE CHECKED AT DANGEROUS POINT RUSSIANS SCORE AT THE CRITICAL MOMENT. (Rec. June 13, i p.m.) London, June 12. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that the German advance has been checked at the two most dangerous places—-Mosciska and Zuravno. _ The continuance of that advance would have brought the enemy into the immediate neighbourhood of Lemberg. "Tho Russians," he says "scored a distinct success at the critical moment, and regained command of both banks of the Dniester. "The Germans in Eastern Galicia are compelled to move their armies by isolated routes, while the Russians are holding several important railway junctions, and are able rapidly to transfer troops from one portion of their front to another." The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent says that the Russians' success at the Dniester was the result of brilliant strategy. The enemy was lured to disaster. The Russians'_ corresponding success at Mikolaieff may also discourage the German idea of withdrawing troops to assist the Western campaign by an attack on the Eastern front. AMERICAN THEORY OF RUSSIANS' RECENT SET-BACK JAPANESE MUNITIONS SUPPLY INTERRUPTED. (Rec. June 13, i p.m.) . . , , , , , Washington, June 12. Diplomatic circles believe that theoollapse of the Russians' Galician offensive was directly due to the recent China-Japanese orisis, by which Japan was obliged to cease the dispatch of arms and ammunition to Russia. It is -understood that Japan is now releasing her supplies again." ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS AT MOSCOW VIGOROUS ACTION BY THE GOVERNOR. (Rec. June 13, 4 p.m.) _ ~ , ± . ± ... Petrograd, June 13. The authorities at Moscow are expelling enemy subjects from the factories. The populace resorted to anti-German disturbances and pillage, but the Governor, man energetic proclamation, intimated that he would not tolerate mob violence, and declared that any domestio disorder only encouraged Russia's enemies to more determined resistance, thus delaying the final victory.