RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2730, 27 March 1916, Page 5

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING

DESPERATE BAYONET FIGHTING ENEMY'S PROTECTIVE LINES FORCED k By Telegraph—Press Awoolation—Copyright (Reo. March 26, 6.5 p.m.) Petrograd, March 24. A Russian communique says: "The Russian offensive is developing Northwest of Lake Vargunek. _ There is desperate bayonet fighting in the Klipa sector, Where, despite heavy Gorman fire, we forced all the enemy's protective lines by a vigorous thrust. Fighting continues at Lake Narotch." ENEMY'S ATTEMPTED OFFENSIVE CHECKED. London, March 25, 2.40 a.m. The High Commissioner reports:— . "Petrograd reports: At Jacobstadt the Germans, with considerable forces, assumed tho offensive, but were repulsed. "At Dvinsk, the Russians are advancing. Fighting continues between Lakes Narotch and Vishneyskoje." | , GERMANS BEATEN WITH THEIR OWN WEAPONS. ("Times" and Sydnep "Sun" Services.) (Rec. March 25, 5.5 p.m.) 1 London, March 24. Tlie "Times" correspondent at Petrograd says tho military authorities consider that the Russian movement'was independently conceived rather than that it was a demonstration to distract the enemy oil the Western front. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Petrograd says tho Germans adopted their old trick, when they suffered reverse, of stressing the heavy Russian losses. Near Dvinsk there are good grounds for stating that the Russian casualties were by no means heavy; in faot, iu many places the Russians drove out tho Germans from their trenches, and have occupied strongly fortified points, which, gives the best possible grounds for confid once in the future. All the art of tho German engineers was devoted in the winter to make the front impregnable with wired defence, concrete parapets, armoured ingeniously laid miiies, reservoirs of poison gas, and numberless machine-guns, yet nt tho first determined onslaught the wholo elaborate system of dofonco crumbled. When the Germans wore liberally dosed by flame-throwers and gas they had reason to curse the day they adopted those devilish moans of warfare. There are few games at which two_ cannot play, as th 0 Germans have learned to their bitter >cost, The iseason is coming when th 0 enemy will bo more nnd moro worried and weakened by the necessity of meeting attacks at a number of points simultaneously.

RUSSIAN'S CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP: THEIR' SUCCESSES. (Rec. Marcli 26. 11 p.m.) „ . . Petrograd, March 28. A Russian communique says: "We continue to follow up our successes. South-east of Augustinbof, after a fierco 'conflict, we occupied the fortified ground around hapuku. Furious counter-attacks followed. We continue to advance in the Dvinsk and Vidzy regions. The Germans in the latter dis- - trict are using explosivo bullets." ■ CLAIMS IN A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. tfrec. March 26, 11.46 p.m.)' . Amsterdam, March 28. A German communique says: "The Russians renewed their attacks westward of Jacobstadt, using fresh Siberian troops." The attacks broke down, with heavy losses." ' <