TERRIFIC BATTLES IN BUKOWINA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5

TERRIFIC BATTLES IN BUKOWINA

FURIOUS AVALANCHE OF SHELLS AUSTRIANS LOSE 100,000 IN A WEEK By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright , Petr,ograd, January 9. The battle which is now raging in Bukowina is the fiercest that has been seen in this region sinco the war began. German prisoners declare that tlia cannonade was°worse,than the bombardment of the west .front in September. Certainly Russia has never before poured out such a furious avalanche of shells. . < AUSTRIANS HURRYING UP REINFORCEMENTS. Bucharest, January 9. Thero arc 800,000 Russians and 3500 guns in Bukowina, and the Austrian casualties for tho week weic 100,000. Reinforcements are lurrying from tho Balkans, the Isonzo, and the inland garrisons. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. (Rec. January 10, 8.15 p.m.) Petrograd, January 10. A communique states"We took prisoner 1200. of Hie enemy nerth-eaat of Czernowitz." RUSSIANS CAPTURING TR&NCH AFTER TRENCH (Rec. January 10, 11.30 p.m.) London, January 10. The "Times's" correspondent at Russian lieadquarters states: "Last New Year the whole of the Russian Army was reduced to one shot per gun daily, and the present contrast is a matter for the heartiest congratulations. Early in October, thirteen German and two Austrian divisions were assembled on the Serbian frontier. A fortnight ago the missing divisions began to reappear. Thero are now 245 battalions between Kovel and Lemberg, under the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, 250 battalions and seventy-five squadrons under Field-Marshal von Mackensen; in addition there are the divisions which are returning from the Danube. They expect tho severest blow from the Russian left flank, and are endeavouring to counter it by striking at our centre and left. A slight frost has hardened the soil without preventing the entrenching of the Russians, who are capturing line after line of the enemy's trenches." NAVAL SKIRMISH IN THE BLACK SEA GOEBEN ENGAGED BY THE RUSSIANS. (Rec. January 10, 8.15 p.m.) Petrograd, January 10. A communique states: —"Ou January 7 our iprpedo boats engaged the Goeben in the Black Sea, and then withdrew to tho protection of our battleship, which fought the Goeben at long range. The Goeben, having tho advantage of superior speed, disappeared in the Bospborus." THE ICE-LOCKED BALTIC GULFS. Stookholm, January 9. The Gulf of Bothnia is frozen. Several steamers are locked in the Ice. RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES AN INKLING OF THE ENEMY'S PLANS. ("Times" and Sydny "Sun" Services.) London, January 8. Colonel Repington forecasts the German plans, in the order named, for the offensive: The west front, Egypt, Mesopotamia, an attempt to bring in Rumania, and, finally, the continuation of the attack against Russia. He warns tho Allies that Russia has suffered terribly, and says: "Let us not think Russia is going to win the war. Let us decide to win it ourselyes. Wo need a large superiority in moi and guns; we need one and a half million men to complete establishments."