THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

i kI.M.:iUC lfcLKuttAFa— COt'XttlOUt.J ,I'ith nifiiti ABPOQUUOR.i Russia's official REroiu. l'etrograd, Augsut 18. Official.—llio enemy's attempts to advance in Riga and Jacobstadt dis- « tricts on Sunday and Monday' failed. Stubborn fighting continues in the Dvhifik district. All uormaii attacks were ropulsed. The fighting at lvoviio was extremely desperate. The enemy on Sunday anu Monday, alter careful preparation with heavy artillery, including 16iu. guns, launched serious violent attacks in full strength with a view of stunning th<j fortifications on the left bank ol tha Niomen and towards evening'succeeded in carrying a small fort and breaking into intervening space* between sonio other forta. In the westem sector we.. repulsed on Sunday a scries of licrce German attacks in the directions ol' Bielostock and Bielsk. The enemy's offensive brtween Nurzec and the Bug was successfully countered. The enemy in Ylodava region is endeavouring to establish himself on tutright bank of tho river. There was severe artillery tiring on on Novogeorgievsk sector when the enemy brought up guns of the largest calibre unci delivered attacks on Sunday night principally against the tortifications between the Narov and the loft bank of the >aiu. In the Black Sea a submarine sank a Turkish steamer, coal laden. In the Caucasus we routed tho Turks and re-occupied Van. A.NOTHJiIt SUCCESS. Fans, August 17. Official.—\Ve violently bombarded | enemy positions in Lingekopf district at Reichackerkopf and the ridge between Sondernach and Landersbaeh, where our infantry gained a footing on the ridgo and repelleu the enemy's eounter-attack. ITALIAN SUCCESSES. ' Rome, August 18. A communique says :—in the ruggeu Ortler range between the valleys of the Adda and the Adige one of our detachments marched from Gap Anna Smilano in sections roped together and crossed Camoni Bass 30SJ. metres, and Vedret di Campo, then scaled Tukettspitz, 34(30 metres, and surprised a party of the enemy on Hikere Madar.echspitz, and firmly occupied the crest. We occupied Sattelberg, westward ol Langealp'. Our offensive in Tolmnio region was dashingly carried ou>t against the hills Santa Maria and Santa Lucia covering positions on the right of Isonzo, the infantry capturing with the point of the bayonet a line of solid entrenchments on the western scopes, taking prisoner 17 officers and -147 men and capturing four machine guns THE -AUSTRIAN SIDEAmsterdam, Aug. IS. An Austrian official report say 6:—: — Von Arz has reached Dobrynka, twelve ittiles south-west of Brestlitovsk. The Archduke Josef is advancing on Janov. Von Kaevers drove the enemy back across the Bug in lvonstantynov region Thfe German cavalry are lighting with the Au6tro-Hungarians on the Lower Bug. We repelled feeble Italian attacks north-eastward of Borgo, also strong attacks in Tolmino district, inflicting great bloodshed.