RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN GALICIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2565, 13 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN GALICIA

ENOT ATTACKS REPULSED PRECIPITATE RETREAT OF AUSTRIANS Br TclejrapK—Press Associatlsn-OopyrlElit ' . - ' . ' (Rec. September 12, 3.10 p.m.) nij- • t <,•«* i. ■ "n. 1 j.- " v v Pe'fograd,-September 11. Official. "A\6 have had continued_.6Ucoesses in tho Trembovla- and Chortkoff sectors (lttj Eastern Grahcia). On -Thursday we took 5000 prisoners. Our troops are-'advancing the left bank, of Dwma (southeast 0 f Riga). fighting as they: go. Ihe enemy supported by strong artillery developed » series of attacks .in. of Skide l (20 /miles east of Groffi and,tlie Lower: Setojanka south-east). The Germans renewed ™lie offensive accompanied . fire from -heavy and light artillery. Our batteries againvrepe ledvjhe attacks. The Germans greatly increased their fire and renewed the to pierce, our front, but our concentrated artillery fire : repulsed them for the third time; We repulsed attacks ;near Rojang Ire and bayonet .charges. The enemy then drove a large number of the inhabitants forward tinder cover of whom /they approached ' bombar 4 e f <> ur troops ;at Kreznotz with . -.''The Austrians, after iheir losses at' Trembotfa.. and precipitately m general Our armies nily Confident in' themselves for hrnds" 1 6 - 13 engagements is gradually.. passing, .into wr TWO GERMAN COMMUNIQUES ... A' „ ; Amsterdam, September'lo. German communique states : General vou HindenWr in the battles near Vilkomir took prisoner someiiundreds of Russians, otherwise the W tion between tlio Baltic. and' tlie • Niemen' • ' ? .The battle contijiues*at Skidel. We stormed the Pr'eski heights upon'the Zetvianka,' capturing 1400 men, • \ 6 'Prince Leopold ■is attacking: on the upper Zetvianka, and also cast of He captured Olszancka. • • . bB 01 General von Mackensens pursuing columns have reached Kosovo and am advanemg on liotli sides of, the railway towards Pinsk . - ' 0 ,We Russians to Buciiiow, eastward of TamoW. ' All the Russian attacks hereabouts were crushed; (Rec. September 12, 3.30 p.m.) ; n ' r , . : Amsterdam, September 11, Berlin communique—General von Hmdcliburg in the sonth-pacH n f lTr,vj nchstadt and east df Wilkomirz to<fk prisoner -1050. The enemy is still nfw" ing obstinate resistance, between Jesiori ZehVa by counter-attackin'2 ® .: /Strong forces,■ attempted 'to arrest our. advance at Skidel • whirl. „„„u only be takert finally-during the night, after, fighting with alternative s i cess. .We took prisoner 2700 111 this region. > sl,c " - Prince Leopold is fighting with unabated violence, and has foreod +I,* crossing ef the some points. The fightirig for the rafiw»£ ; ct. tion at Kossow is proceeding. J bla " -■ General von Bothmcr repulsecl Severe Counter-attacks, taking 300 nrisonpr* A naval airship successfully. bombarded a Russian Baltic fort, ai vl v„ii' ways aAd retufiied .nndaimaged.Z ™'"

AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE.. . .V m , . Amsterdam, September'lo Austrian cdihmuniqiift.—There has Been l violent fightine wenta-arTi „e IVI Middle Sereth'where the/Russians have been reinforced. .■ THE RUSSIAN ARMIES ARE NOW WELL' PLACED. ("Times" and Sydney "Sua" Services.) Colonel Ref>iilgton, the Military Correspondent of the vffmes™'' Tir fortune of . war , is variable, but, in view of the unfavourable condition/of +1! Russians' retreat from the .Vistula, the Russian uraiies are no.iv tvell r,lL a "i° and able to carry out an orderly retreat, lighting where they please aiJ », long as they Wish until the wet season has already lw:<\m Then +],„ will impose a halt ell the. German armies, leaving them in winter Wfw° I|r a devastated .country. 1 18 ln MAGNIFICENT MORAL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES. ' ' (Rcc. September 12, 3.10 p.m.) * „ . ' . Paris, September 11. JJrench; papers comment on tho battles of Tremborla and point out with' enthusiasm that development of tho operations which brought about the Bus sians' success.- show the magnificent both moral and material" which,.tile. Russian• .Army preserves after a retreat in such £r<wi order. X - ' RUSSIAN SENTIMENT STIMULATED BY THE TSAR. . ("Times"- and Sydney, "Sun"- Services.) , ' rra . „ , ' ' . London, September 10. iiie ( rimes correspondent at Petrograd says the Tsar's, leadership of the Russian Army and Navy has not causol surprise; the effect has been to intensify the sentiment of the country that the war--must aud will be carried to a victorious end. AUSTRO-GERMAN FORCES ON THE EASTERN FRONT. (Rcc. September 13, 0.10 a.m.) ■ „ ' -T.L , ■, f 0 " 10 ) September 11. Renter's Petrograd correspondent states that tiiero aro 2,600,000 Austro.iUrmans on the Russian front.. There aro 28. German jroy corps ig thfl

Baltic Provinces and Lithuania; 20 Auslro-Germau. corps in the Prinfet reeion and 12 German and 30 Austrian corps in Galicia, including. 11AiSnand 0 Gorman cavalry divisions. . ■ 'The Germans arc feverishly restoring Koviio. Two forts have been con-structed-on the eastern side ami two contmuous lilies of concreted trendies botween the inner and outer forts. Guiis of the heaviest calibro are bciiie mounted. b .ANOTHER AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. (Rec. September 13, 0.10 a.m.) i . , - . ■: , , , Paris, September 11. An Austrian communique states: "Derashno (oh the Goryn), a felaco northwest ol Itovno", is in our hands. "Strong ißussian forces ileal- Tarn opal which attempted to enter the Austro-German positions wcro repulsed with heavy losses "Further south we withdrew our Scrcth front to heights eastward of the btrypa, before superior forces, Heavy fighting is proceeding oil tlio heights westward ot the Lower Seretli. ° b "Wo stormed the stubboijply-defcnded village of Alba, westward of.KosZOW. ".. . RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE BEING PUSHED WITH VIGOUR, (Reo. September 13, 0.25 a.m.) rail™?' iTTif tlle E ' iver - E j eroth lS n rMc'hc & d B Lembm'g-Dul)no railway, where the Austro-Gtennans are vainly resisting tlio advance.