RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 7

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

FIERCEjBATTLE NEAR HALICZ* ' J ~ " ■ ; . i AnstraliM-New Zealand Cable Association.. ' ■! (Rec. September 24,, 5.5 p.m.) * v ] Petrograd, September 23. ■;•■• A Russian communique says': "Ths' enemy south-west of Lake N«rotck ; launched a, gas attack for two hbw», -j and subsequent attacks in dense col* umns were repelled."' ! In the communique there is no men- i lion of the Halicz fighting, but unoffi- '; ciaj report* state that the battle continues with extreme violence. General Toherbacheff's troops are fortifying the captured German positions, -which are exposed. There wore incessant coun« ; ; tcr-attaoks for forty-eight bouts, the . j only result being that tne Russians ; captured , three more of the enemy's . ' lines. The ground is covered with ; German corpses and which it is impossible to remove owing to the stress of the fighting. One wood over- ■ r looking tho banks of the > Naraiuvk* J changed nands 6i\ times_ before tlie Russians finally captured it. . \ ' ) BRUSILOFF'S OFFENSIVE ; ATTACKS AT TEN POINTS ■- (Rec. September 24, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, September 22. , j The "Journal's" Petrograd oorre* :• spondent report* that the battle is rag- ; ing with redoubled violence north of . < Halicz, on the banks of the Navaiuvia, : \] River. The resumption of' Brusiloff's offonsivo, after twenty-four hours' j bombardment, began simultaneously at ■'. ten. points. Hundreds of prisoners were i taken in the last two days. » 1 ENTIRE DIVISION DESTROYED. ' TURKISH REGIMENT CRUSHED., • ' London, September 22. ,"; , j 'A. tolegram from Petrograd stateij' • i that General Brusiloff destroyed an en*/ ;,j tire German division and i crushed a Turkish regiment south of ! the Zlota- Lipa. . : ; Copenhagen,. September 22.' '~] Tho Kaiser is on the Gaucian front* i • Rome. September 22! _-j Several of tho Halicz forts heva :j fallen. • • ■ i SUMMIT OF SMOTREC . CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS * London; September 22. A German communique states: "Near Korytnica the Russians still occupy small portions of our position. There .' was vigorous artillery activity between the Seroth and the Strypa. _ ;' "We again lost the summit of Smotrec, in the. Carpathians. Russian attacks were unsuccessful at Baba and Ludowa." QUIET IN THE CAUCASUS. (Outer's Telecratn.l London, September 23. A Russian communique states: "On our West front and in the Caucasus there is nothing important to report."-