ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3046, 5 April 1917, Page 5

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

BAYONET FIGHTING IN THE NORTH A SEAPLANE'S EXPLOIT London, April 3. J Wireless, per Admiralty Press.—A ,Russian official message states: —"Wo J threw baok at the bayonet point enemy [attacks which penetrated our trenches in_ the regions southward of Illukst (10 miles north-west of Dvinsk) and southcast of Vladimir Volinski, in.Volhynia. ■ "A Russian seaplane raiding Derkas (? Burghas) was compelled to descend.The aviators turned a machine-gun on a Turkish schooner.- The crew abandoned tho schooner, Tvliioh tho aviators boarded, and Bailed towards Russia. They encountered a heavy storm, and arrived at Djarligatch Peninsula, from where they returned to, Sebastopol by i a torpedo boat.— Cable-Assn.-Reuter. BIG GERMAN OFFENSIVE EXPECTED URGENT CIO: FOR MEN. , (Rec. April 5, 0.40 .m.) London, April i. The "Daily' Chronicle's" correspondent in Petrograd statos that 11. Giitchkoff, Minister for War, points out that the enemy is preparing for a vigorous offensive on the Russian front. Hβ emphasises the army's active needs for fresh contingents, and instructs manders and Governors to comb out all exoept those who are indispensable, and tram them rapidly, for service at the front.—Reuter.. ■ i '—;-, . ■ /