INTENSE FIGHTING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2542, 17 August 1915, Page 5

INTENSE FIGHTING

ATTACKS IN THE BALTIC J PROVINCES .t ■' ::' " GERMANS REPULSED f , 9 , I NOVO-GEORGIEVSK INVESTED 9 :;' ' ■ ■ , AUSTRIAN. SUBMARINE SUNK 1 T ' \ HIGH PRAISE FOR THE NEW I ZEALANDERS. 1, : •, - _ '.i'- . •, ; ' ■ > ! 1 The war in the Eastern theatre is still the outstanding item of iml '• portance. The Russians have successfully sustained heavy attacks on their front in the Baltic Provinces, and also in the Narew-Bug region. The big Rusaa-n fortress of Novo-Georgievsk has now been invested, but opinion in Potrograd is confident that the garrison will be able to , give a good account of itself. Along the south-eastern sectors of the ■ battlefront tho! Austro-Germans are still hammering away desperately. ' -The Italians have sunk another Austrian submarine in the Adriatic—,- ; - the second in two days—while their land offensive is making steady ■ , progress.; The Italians' daily air attacks on the Austrian naval bases ' in the Adriatic are accomplishing an enormous amount of damage. From the-Dardanelles) the news to-day conveys very little. Turco--1 German officers have quarrelled amongst themselves, and bitter feeling . has been engendered as the result. Y/e publish to-day a glowing dispatch from Sir lan Hamilton, in which the British Pommander be- ; stows splendid, praise upou the New Zealanders for their magnificent ! exploits in the recent fighting. There is very little'to report from the i ; iYVestern front.