BRUSILOFF DEVELOPING HIS NEW OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 5

BRUSILOFF DEVELOPING HIS NEW OFFENSIVE

HEAVY BLOWS ON PTENDED MONT TACTICS OF THE LEMBERG-HALICZ ; OPERATIONS .Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. „• :. > . London, October 2. A Russia,n'official communique states:,"Stubborn fighting oontinnes on the Naraiuvka and tlie Zlota Lipa Rivers. Our fire repelled oounter-attacks with great losses. We capture*! 1600 Austrians, Germans, aad Turks. We defeated ' the enemy's advance guard on this Bystritza. 'General Letehitsky, between September 19 and 28) took 2600.prisoners' in the Carpathians, : with' much, bco'ty.' v' ■ , . . ■ . 'iThe.Caucasus front is quiet."- ; • : fßnutor's Tfllceram.) . ' ■ " . :(Roc. 0c101)er3,8.30 p.m.)' ■ ' . - • / Petrograd, October 3. ■ There is reason to anticipate .that General Brusiloff's new. "push" Trill, extend north and south of th'e Lombsrg region, embracing the battlefields of Kovel, Vladimir Volynski, and a wide extent in Galicia. The Entente's military expats here regard the Russian success south of Brssezaay and in the direction of-Rohatyn as marking an important stage towards separating the Lemberg and Halicz armies. They dwell on the. similarity of the Russian and Anglo-French tactics. ■ . ■ ' . , RUSSIAN ARTILLERY STRENGTH AUGMENTED • \- Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, ' ' Copenhagen, October 2. The "Vossische Zoitung's" correspondent states that the Russians arc equipped with heavier artillery : and greater supplies, of ammunition. The > violent infantry attacks in Galicia axe. believed to presage a final attempt to capture Lemberg. -V , "• „, ~ _ . Other German correspondents report . that the 'Russians are violently ■bombarding the whole front fromjßaraiiovitchi to the Carpathians;. TURKS;SEVERELY HANDLED. ; > ' . Rome,. October 2. !A> telegram from Petrograd states that a fresh and violent Russian offensive has' begun on a front of 112 miles: The Turks on the enemy's .front wore severely cheoked, their front driven inland they were dispersed in disorder;The engagement continues with intensity. General von Hindenburg has recalled the troops which, were sent to Transylvania.;' ". ~'7 .. - ' ". GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. . ' • ~ .London, October' 2. A German official communique states: "We have regained the position at; Graberka which wo lost on Saturday. The enemy's attack astride the BrodyLemberg railway,failed: . Fighting continues east of the Zlota Lipa."