FIERCE BATTLES ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2895, 6 October 1916, Page 5

FIERCE BATTLES ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

I .:. ... ■ ■ .- ENEMY STUBBORNLY RESISTING / HEAVY BLOW AT LEMBERG (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ~'-''■ Pctrograd, October 4. A Russian official communiquo states:—"Stubborn battles continue at Khelvov and Korytnitza. The enomy stubbornly holds his positions on the River Cerniuvka."-

- WHOLE SOUTHERN LINE ABLAZE ' /TERRIFIC BATTLE ON THE GALIOIAN FRONT, (E-co. October 5, 8.10 p.m.) v 1 Petrograd, October i. The move forward towards Lembcrg has recommenced. The whole of the southern sector of the Russian front is ablazo. General Brusiloff's immediate objective is Vladimir Volynski and the railway at Kovel. The Russians bio iu possession of enormous reserves of ammunition, and are shelling the Austrian line with unparalleled ferocity. A terrible battle at Brze'zany : has already been waged over three days, in which tho Russians, under cover of their artillery fire, crossed tho Zlota Lipa, and captured tho opposing heights. • ° GREAT GERMAN CONCENTRATION IN VLADIMIR-VOLYNSKI REGION ■ • ENEMY PREPARED FOR DESPERATE THROW.. ("Tho Times.") ' ■ • . ' (Rec. Ootobor 6, 0.55 a.m.) -, „m, m-' ',',;' i,' , t •'■ ; London,. Ootober 5. "Ih'e Times'- 'correspondent states: "Tho Germans are endeavouring at all costs to'hold the space between Kovel and Lemberg, on which mainly de.petid the other issues of German strategy on the Russian front. It is/semk officially stated : thafc'Germany, since September, has dispatched twelve divisions to the southern-sectors. With the twelve divisions dispatched in June, altogether' twenty-four divisions have reinforced the south-western front. Out of the: twelve which arrived iu September, nine of these are now defending the Kovel approaches, \where von Hindenburg by mid-September had concentrated thirty-one divisions. Russian critios prediot an obstinate resistanco at .Kovel.. Tliey are of opinion that this is a most formidable concentration, and by this we can, gauge tho important which tho enemy's command attaches .tothe Vlndimir-Vplynslii region." ' ■'■'' GERMAN OFFIOIAL COIIMUNIQUE. ■ '■ ■ Australian-New Zealand Oable Association, '•.•■■-' London, October 4. /A German official communique sfcatos:—"The Russians west of Lusk wore defeated. . ,AVe maintained all bur ground. Thousands of Russians were-hilled." ', HOW AUSTRIA TREATS HER BOHEMIAN REGIMENTS . (Rec. October 5, 5:35 p.m.) ' . • ' London, October 4. ■, The "Daily Telegraph's". Milan correspondent states, that the Austrian Government's' : difficulty in maintaining the lo'yalty of the Bohemian troops is increasing. There are reports of frequent mutinies and wholesalo 'executions. It is rumoured that Bohemian regiments were destroyed by exposure on the Russian front, unprotected, aud sometimes abandoned for days without; provisions. ' . ; ' HUNGARIAN DEPUTIES RECALLED ,FROM LEAVE (Router's Tflesram.) Amsterdam, October A. A Royal decree in Hungary orders all Deputies on leave to attend the B»eslon aud rejoin the army immediately.