CHANGED ASPECT ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2660, 4 January 1916, Page 7

CHANGED ASPECT ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

BLAZE OF FIERCE ACTIVITY RUSSIA'S STRIKING POWER VERY GREATLY INCREASED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, January 2. The "Obsei'ver s" Petrograd correspondent states that last week a changed aspect came over tlio Russian front. The front from tlio Pripet to Galicia and the Dvina front suddenly blazed into fierce activity. The .previous inactivity has greatly increased the Russians' striking power. The new troops are a fine type of soldier, and ammunition is plentiful. The Russian military authorities cstiinato that the Austro-Germans from the Pripet to Rumania number a million and a half. So far the Russians have had the advantage. ENEMY TRENCHES ON THE RIVER STRYPA OCCUPIED. • ■ Petrograd, January 2. A communique states: "Desperate counter-attacks by tlio enemy, with the object of driving us back on the right bank of the Styr, were unsuccessful. Two miles of enemy trenches on the River Strypa were occupied. We broke ■through the enemy entanglements and consolidated the ground won. We crossed the Stj;r in the Chartorysk Tegion, and captured the village of Khriasi, despite the futile counter-attacks which followed. We drove back the enemy in the Ussetchko district to the right bank of the Dniester, and have made progress between the Dniester and the Rumanian frontier." FIERCE EIGHT NEAR CZERNOVITZ. (Rec. January 3, 8.35 p.m.) . Petrograd, January 3. A Russian communique says: "The enemy northward of Czartorysk was twice driven back with heavy losses. There was a particularly fierce fight near Czernovitz, where we occupied several heights." WEAK RUSSIAN DIVISIONS REPULSED. * Amsterdam, January 2. A German communique states: "Wo repulsed weak Russian divisions at various points except northward of Lake Drysviaty, where the Russians temporarily entered our position."