GERMAN OFFENSIVE MOVE CHECKED BY THE RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 9

GERMAN OFFENSIVE MOVE CHECKED BY THE RUSSIANS

SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE IN THE CARPATHIANS Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, September 21. A Russian official communique states:—"An offensive by. the enemy on the Kovel-Rovno railway was everywhere repulsed. We captured a position on the "Panf/yr Mountain, in the Carpathians. TCHERBACHEFF'S ARMY " SURGING ON " ("The Times.") ... London, September 21. Mr. Stanley Wwhburn, writing from Galicia on September 19, states that ■ General Tcherbacheff's army, which has been faced by most difficult country. since the beginning of the great offens ivc, is, now surging on steadily. The total advance from the winter lino is fourteen .miles. Almost uninterrupted fighting since the ehd of August resulted in the capture of 25,000 prisoners, including 8000 Germans, arid'22.guns. At the commencement of the offen- ' sive GoneralTcherbacheff was faced by six Austrian divisions and one German.division. There are now an additional seven Gorman divisions, including one from the Somme, • and two Turkish divisions. The Germans are strenuously trying to hold the Russians, and render the sweeping movements more difficult. The campaign promises to becomo similar to the one on the West front. U'ERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. Australiaa-New Zealand Gable Association. I- . . .■,-'.' I . . '..'', .'■'' Amsterdam, September 21. 'A German official communique states:—The Russian Guards continue to attack west of -Lusk. There have been sanguinary storming attacks on a 12 \ mile front near'Korytnica. The enemy gained lqcal successes in the Carpathians in the Pantyr Pass-'and Tatarce. He stormed Ludowa seven times.' . , ' -'■ AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. "' (Reo. September 22, '5.40 p.m.) Amsterdam, September 22. I- An Austrian official communique states: "The enemy, continuing his at- < tacks with the greatest stubbornness in the Carpathians, slightly pushed back one of our salient frontal positions eastward of the Pantyr Ridge.' The enemy '. westward of Lusk persists in sending troops to slaughter in deep columns, placing his Guards in the'eentre. Fighting continues at Sviniuchi." TURKISH. TROOPS ON RIGA FRONT. \ rßeuter's Te'eeram.l ' '• (Rec. September 22, 5.40 p.m.) Petrograd, September 22. Turkish troops have appeared on the Riga front, with German officers and equipment. THE WARFARE. IN ASIA MINOR Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ' ••■•'"'" > London, September 21. 'A Russian official communique states:—"We dislodged the Kurds from a mountain ridge "south-east of Mush (in Asia Mine-;-). In this area there are fogs and fierce snow storms."' ' ' . ' ' '