THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

, I'jsu ntisa ASSouvuoK.i KUSSIA'S REPORT. l'etrograd, Aug. '20. ' A communique saj's , :—There have [ been alternating successes at Jacobatatlt and Dvinsk. We nold the en- ' eniy'ci oileiis-ivc between ivovno .and \ Una- and between the Uobr and tho Narev. We have [alien oack from Uio general position on the left bank of tlio Bobr, leading to the evacuation o* Ossoviecz which we blew up and razod. \\ e stopped some attacks east of liielsk ' facilitating our occupation of new positions. Wα stopped the enemy's ofl'ensivj on the right bank ol the Bug iu , the direction ol Kovel. [ THL , GERMAN VERSION. Amsterdam, August 23 -v somi-ollicial message from lierl:i says no large German warship w.is sunk or damaged at Riga, and no landing was attempted at i'eriiau. l'lio Germans success'iuliy bombarded the port land batteries and sank a steainor and six sailers. The vessel* wlueh tlio Russians claim to have captured were sunk by no in order to blockade the channel. The German Admiralty is silent vogardiug the Riga light. A German communique says:—Tlio , British fleet bombarded Aeebnigge 'U Monday, firing .seventy shells. We had one killed and six wounded. Shells injured three 13elgian inhabitants. -No material damage was done. Prince Leopold, near the forest of Bialovieska took prisoner 4500. We stormed on the south-west front of Brostlitovek some heights near lvopytov. Our troops are advancing through the marshy district northeast of Voldava pursuing the enemy. INCESSANT FIGHTING. Paris, August 25. A comnnini(|uc .say.? that there was incessant fighting in the .vrgonno. tSeven of our aoroplanes dropped eighty projectiles <m the stations at Torgiiier and Noyon. Several lires broke out at Tergnie-r. THE SL.U'GHTEII ON GALLIPOLI Sclia. August '20. Constantinople advises that then , ha> been violent fighting on Gallipoli for the past' week. of woiHidr-d arc daily arriving and thousands of t'ro<h troops are daily sent to the Dardanelles.