RUSSIANS STILL BEING PUSHED BACK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS STILL BEING PUSHED BACK

STUBBORN REARGUARD ACTIONS ~ GIGANTIC ENVELOPING MOVEMENT EXPECTED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (R-ec. July, 4, 3.25 p.m.) . Petrograd, July 3. Official.—The «ncmy lias establish©rl contact with' us along the River Wyzijica in the direction of Lubin, and continues to progress north and northeast between the Vieprz and Bug. A stubborn rearguard action was fought uortlnvard of Zamosc. Numerous enemy attacks on Wednesday and Thursday on the Sokal-Halicz front were mostly repulsed with heavy enemy losses, we takinp prisoners during our counter-attacks two thousand, nevertheless, south, ward of Rohatyn, important enemy forces established themselves on Thursday evening on the left bank of the Gnilalipa. . Petrograd, July 3, Four hundred thousand Gorman troops, concentrating in the Libau district, cither to await to co-operate with Gen oral Mackensen in a gigantic enveloping movement north and south, or to advance on Riga. GERMAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF . SUCCESSES AGAINST RUSSIA', (Rec. July. 4, 3.15 p.m.) Berlin, July. 3. Official—Wo captured a height south-eastward of Kalwarya, making prisoners ot six hundred. After storming tho hoiehts near Kurostowic. northwest of Halicz, General Linsingen forcod the enomy to .retreat along the ontiro front' from tho Mariampol district to the north of Firjclow. General Mackensen pushed back the enemy westward of Zamosc, towards a- sector of the rivers Labuka and Por. Wo captured Stroza and Krasnik, while Woyrsch is oustiu« the Russians from positions south-east of Sionno and north-westward ■ of Kamienna, a tributary of the .Vistula, ,Wo caaturcd seven hundred grcna- ■

HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS -IN; GALICIA. _(Eec. July 4, 3 p.m.) Rotterdam! July 3. Austrian Official.—Heavy fighting is progressing against strong Russian forces in the region ol' Foscfono, north-eastward of tho Tarnow Road. GERMANS CLAIM TO BE STILL' ADVANCING, (Reo, July 5, 0.5 a.m.) London, July 3. Berlin official: "Our pursuing troops, north-west of the Dniester, are advancing across the Mariampol-Narajow-Miastro lino towards the Zlota Lipa district. We reached tlie River Bug below Kazonka. and from Strumilowa to below Krylow. We are also progressing further north, between the Bug and the Vistula. We captured the Labunka-Por Plains, despite stubborn resistance. A Russian <$ui}t«riat.tack soqth-west of Radom was repqlsed."