ON THE SERETH AND THE BYSTRITZA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 5

ON THE SERETH AND THE BYSTRITZA

ATTACKS REPULSED BY THE RUSSIANS Petrograd, August 30. A Russian official communique states: "We repulsed enemy attacks oh the upper Sereth and the Bystritza. We captured the Panker Mountain." GERMAN OFFIOIAL COMMUNIQUE. • London, August 30. A German official communique strites: "We stormed Mount Kokul." _ , \ f .VON BERNHARDI GIVEN AN AUSTRIAN COMMAND. Zurich, August 30. - General von Hiudenburg has given the notorious Genoral von Bernhardt command of an Austrian army corps on the Kovel sector. - ' __ [General von Bernhardi is the author of "Germany and the Next War, ''How Germany Makes War," "England as Germany's Vassal," and other well-known works on Germany's war policy. He has been on active service throughout a great part of the war.] . SIVAL OFFERS TO LITHUANIANS. - .1 ' , Berne, August 30. , A' wireless message states that the Tsar summoned M. Itchas, Chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists in the Duma, to an interview at the Russian Headquarters, and promised the Lithuanians a liberal measure of Home Rule. Germany, on the other hand, is preparing to declare Lithuania an independent principality, to act as a buffer State, subordinated to Germany by military and commercial treaties, and with a sou ( of the Kaiser, as the ruling Prijrco. 1 • i