ON THE EAST FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2873, 11 September 1916, Page 5

ON THE EAST FRONT

RUSSIANS ON THE LEFT BANK OF TEE DVINA (Router's Telegram.) Petrograd, September 8. A communique states: Despite repeated German attacks wo occupied positions ou the left bank of the West-' em (lower) X)viua, northward of Dvinsk. • ■ ..; ' ' After fierce artillery preparation tlia' enemy attacked .our positions at Volitsk, iu the direction of Kovel, but was repelled. Our offensive on the Gnita Lipa continues, the enemy offering a stubborn resistance from' the right bank, to which lio lias retired. ENEMY GIVES GROUND \ IN THE CARPATHIANS Au6tralian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, September 8 > A. German communique statcß.— "Russian attacks heavilv failed on tho Zlota Lipa, south-east of Bi/e----zany, on the Najarovka. "Wo repulsed the enemy at Schipos, in the Carpathians. c"£ h ? P ,lJ e arJans al 'd Turks, north i i?"™' 1 ' m Dobruja, drove back tno Russians and Rumanians " 'The enemy iu tho Carpathians threw strong forces into position on tho heights' west of Schipos and Dornawatra. Wo yielded boforo pressure north-west of the Kapul. , ''Renewed enemy attacks atDobnch failed." SERIES OF HEIGHTS CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS (Rec. September 10, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, September 9 A Itussian communique snjs —"Wo repeated our attacks on tho Rnor Waraiuvka in the direction of Hakcz Stubborn fighting i continues. "Tho Russians'in tho Carpathians, south of Baranoy, carried a scries of heights. _ A number of cannon woro thrown mto tLo Tavines." ENEMY "COMMUNIQUES BITTER FIGHTING IN THE CARPATHIANS (Rcc. September 10, 5.5 p m ) London, September 8 «mT l Aus * r ' an commnniquo says — The fighting in. the Carpathians shora, undiminished bitterness.- Eastward of Halicz enemy attacks were resultless. , ' Amsterdam, September 9. A Berlin commuriiquo -states:—"Rus- , sian attacks • between Zlota Lipa and ' the Dniester were futile."