THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

_______ a I KLKI/11UC ItMiKuKAI'U — UOI'VUJUUX. 1 '.yjill I'UKua JSttuUVIIUN. I OX THE EASTERN IQIONT. Petrograd, August 2d. A commuinique says the situation in the Riga district is unchanged.. There is stubborn lighting in the Friedriclistadi region where the enemy is attempting to force our hues towards the Mitau railway. Our counter-attacks diecked the enemy's offensive towards Viliia. Wo continued our retreat on the middle Piemen an*! on tne lront .between Bobr and Pripet, hokling the enemy's 'offensive by lighting. The enemy's ad vance was most marked in the Bielooviesh forest and on the roods to Kobrin. The enemy have begiuYvtho offensive near Lidunir, Jolynski and Torchin, westward of iStak, at Lokatelio on tin: Luga and at Politzk. The enemy have -secured a looting westward oi Podgaitzi on the left baJili of the Zlatalipa. AUSTRO-GERMAX REPORTS. Amsterdam, August 1:8. An Austrian coinnmnique says:—Our troops, storming, captured iiosituons between Gologory and' Dunajov. The Auetro-Gormaus captured those near Brzczany. We took O'UUO prisoners There has been extensive righting eastward of Vladimir Volynski. General Puhallcs throw the enemy back towards Luck. The Germans northward ol Pripet marshes are approaching lvobrjn. We ejected the enemy from north and south of Kamieniechhniosk. Italian attacks eastward oi l J olazzo were repulsed. A German communique says—Enemy fcirmen unsuccessfully bomfrarded Ostend, 3iiddlekerke, Bruges, and Mullieim in Baden. TJiree civilians were killed. "We repulsed the enemy northward oi Baiibk iScßoeiiberg capturing 2000 Russians. We repulsed attacks between lladsivilischki and Svjadoszi. \Ye occupied the town on the >i'arev. -Mackenseu'b and Leopold's troops are still advancing. The Allied troops broke through the enemy s positions at Zlotalipa, and north and south oi' Brzezany The enemy's counter-a'cTac-ks were repulsed with heavy losses. Tlie ltiJissians latqr abandoned resistance and are retreating. CJEIWUX TItEXORES BO.MBAIM)ED Paris, August 2!J. A communique says:—The German trencheti in the districts ol Nieuport, iietsas and Eastakar on tlie Lille road northward of Arras were effectively bombarded.