INCESSANT FIGHTING ON DVINSK FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 5

INCESSANT FIGHTING ON DVINSK FRONT

INTENSE ARTILLERY FIRE

RUSSIANS MEET WITH FLUCTUATING SUCCESS

ByTelegrapSi—Frees 'AMoel&Uon—OopyrigM (Bee. October 10, 3.30 p.m.) Petrograd, October 9. A Russian communique says fighting, is incessant on the entire Dvjnsk front. The enemy madq repeated furious attaoks, ..and in pomo cases the epemy too!? opr-trenches, and in other parts we took the enemy's.\ An intense artillery fire is now developed on both sides. With the assistance of an armoured train we successfully attacked Stavou, north-east of Klevnn, taking prisoners 1800. v \Ve wore successful in actions between Dubno and Luzk,; and made prisoners of 1500. 'A" GERMAN 1 TRANSPORT SUNK (Rec. October 10, 3.p.m.) , .. Petrograd, October D. A Russian official message says: A British submarine, near tho German coast in the Baltic, shelled and sank a, German transport. REPORT OF RUSSIAN SUCCESSES, London, October 9, 11.25 a.iu. The Higli Commissioner reports:— '-The Russians report successes north-east of Klevan, where 1800 prisoners were taken and somo machine-guns captured, and between Dubno and Luzk, ivhere 1500 prisoners and five machine-guns were captured. In the Baltic a British submarine shelled and destroyed a Gorman transport near the German coast. . GERMAN ADVANCE HAS LOST ITS IMPETUS • . ~ , . London, October- 8. the mam evidopco that the German advance lias lost impetus," says tho ''Daily- Telegraph's'' Petrograd -correspondent, "is the'map. There is plenty of t«wif .tint th» ternttiis n're digging Wiewselvcs m. witU iutatitk-ju to utilise wic ar»ws oa otasc frntju

"Tlio only, seotbr on tho long battle line, where tTjey firaVtrying; to advance is around Dviiisk, where for weeks an incessant battle has raged amdng the , lakes and 6'xampa. ■' . • "Tlie enemy is no nearer Lis objective, which is to take Riga from the rear. • ■ 1 -v ' • "The balance of the recent fighting in. quadrilateral: Drinsk-Polotzy-Yi-loika-Vilna ib emphatically on the side of Russia. "A neutral critic gives the German, strength, against Pvinsk as 700.000, but tlio military writer m the Russian official organ is of opinion, that the number is 350,000.'" . . _ "On tho'Sereth, in Galicia, large concentration of German troops is 6aid to.be awaiting developments in other regions.'. . ■■■ '', ;;'v "Prisonors taken at the Yilna front admit that the German troops aro . worn out. Thoy assert that nocturnal counter-attacks aro carried out under tlio influonco of intoxicants, barrels of which ore; brought to,the trenches after nightfall. Many Germans have been captured while in a drunken sleep. Their uniforms and hoots are. generally dellapidated. "Soldiers who fall are immediately stripped of their boots. Even, the wounded aro found boobloss. 1 * , GRADUAL CHANGE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.. ("Times" and Sydnoy, "Sun" Services.) ■ nm- m . London, Ootober 8. ine Times correspondent at Petrograd says :—"Welcome evidence is ao '■ cumulating of the gradual-change on our front owing to the steady technical improvement in tho. Russian armies. Thanks to their artillery, 'the,AugtroUonnaus havo hitherto easily advanced; how our artillery is hieetiri" theirs oh ' equal terms. . : v . Prisonets state that the Germans, in the Vilna region suffered colossal lossos. Ihe scamty of clotbng and footgear is so great that the dead are* invariably stopped. The cavalry are in a pitiable condition. - The martial spirit of the men has appreciably declined, and confidence in victory is disarm pearing."- i . . A PREPARING FOR THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. t>..„ • ■ • -■ a, ■ Petrograd, October 8 f Russia is preparing a of 2,000,000 for the spring campaign.- ... 'AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN COMMUNIQUES, ' . (Rec. October 10, 3.30/ p.m.) , I Amsterdam, October 9. An Austrian communique says: We made prisoners of 4000 in the Volhynlan territory on the 6th and 7th. " - . Amsterdam, October 8. A G-arm an communique states:—ln Russia, General v<Vi Hindenburg .re-' pulsed the Russian attacks north of Koziany and south of Lake Vishnioff ' I—. ; BATTLE IN PROGRESS 'AT GARBUNOWKA. (Rec. October 12, 0.5 a.m.) .... Petrograd, October 10. . A Russian communique. says: "The battle in progress iat Garbunowka is assuming an extremely desperate character. The Germans northward of Gar- , bunowka, unable to withstand our machmcrgims, -were forced to desist ih the ■ attack at that point. The enemy southward of Pripet reoccupied Pojog, on tliß Lower Stokhod. We captured Konstantinova, nortWest of Dubno."