LATENEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2491, 18 June 1915, Page 5

LATENEWS

THE GREAT STRUGGLE IN GALICIA TREMENDOUS ASSAULT BY THE GERMANS (Rec. June 17, 1.20 a.m.) Petrograd, Juno 17. The enemy's strength on the San ifl enormous. With their new reinforcements, the Germans alono have fourteen army corps concentrated in the regions of the Lubaczowka and the Wißznia, The enemy's advance on the right bank of the Lubaczowka gives him possession of the railway spanning the river, and leading north-east to the Rawaruska group, on the Lubaczowka, which is endeavouring to advanct north-east, menacing the Russian rear oil the Dneister, while the Wisznia group is moving in the direction of Lemberg. Official.—"The Germans' attacks during the last three days at Liatzkow were not successful, and' ended in our favour. "Our troops in the Popoliany district orossed the Venta, our cavalry, sabring hundreds of fleeing Germans. ' _ "Fighting in the .Shayli front continues with varying fortune. Some, villages have fallen into the enemy's hands. "The enemy ,is fruitlesly .attempting an offensive beyond the JlidiKo Niemen, and has sustained heavy losses. "Wo have recaptured all our advanced trenches northward of Prasnysz. "The battle on the San-oontinuos with increasing fierceness. • Fighting on- the Tistenitsa-Bystritza fron£ lias continued to our advantage. "We captured, southward of WidachefE. another five hundred <Germans, including fourteen officers, also four guns, and six machine-guns. . •'