KOVNO COSTS GERMANS 120,000 MEN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1915, Page 3

KOVNO COSTS GERMANS 120,000 MEN.

Geneva, August 20 Telegrams from Innsbruck state ilia the capture of Jvovuo cost the (jeriiiaji several army corps. They lost 3U,OU at Dabissa in three weeks, and i'2O,UU at Jvuvnu exclusively in the linal t\v days' assaults. Beginning in the evening oi' th 17th, alter an unprecedented bow bardmont, -'(iOjOW were Hurled agaiiis -•ie forts. Terrible butchery follower and for several hcurs tho Kussian t iuugul uith. the bayonet. ITALIAN SUCOlifctefJiy. Koine, August '20. A coiniinitjiie bays:—We expelled th (lelenders iroin I'ozzialti port in th Tonale region. We occupied .Mon i'a tonio redoubt, in upper lleiuz; cap tured a line of trenches near Tree-row completely repulsed counter-atlaeks : jj our positions in tho I'oiiin'no sector and progressed in Vavbu district. h'HOM YJLENiVA AAiJ IiJiItJLIJN August JU. An Austrian official report says:— We conyuored the crossing ol the LJu^ . uurth of Janov-Konistentiiigv, ant btonned Niemirov and omer places oi the north bank. We ropulsed six at tacks on Tolinino bridgehead, which u btill lirinly held. A Berlin wireless alleges that Ueu'tei biipprcseed reports that tlie BritisOi re gistration is proving unpopular, am has been accompanied by serious riots.