THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 June 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

LELiiCi'KIC TELEOItAI'II—CCrI'RIGIIX.J l>Elt JPBEN3 ASSOCIATION. J RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING. Petrograd, June 4. A communique states:—Oll the wiioi? front from the southern part of i'lessie to the Roumanian frontier we are still pushing back the enemy. JL'he enemy was completely disorganized in many sectors. General St. Olierbaclioti hlas taken 17,000 Austrians in small sectors aid sucTi quantities and assortment ol material has been left behind that "+■ '•* impossi'bl.) yet to estimate the amount. The enemy at one point abandoned sufficient material to constrifcb forty miles of railway. The enemy is offering a desperate resistance on the road to Vladimir Volynski. Fierce fighting is in progress at Ziftturtskv, lialf-viy between Luzk and Vladimir Volynski. The Cossacks made a brilliant charge sabring an enemy squadron. Tho enemy made desperate count© >•- attacks north of Buczftcz. We repulsed the enemy andi occupied the heights on the western bank of the Strypa. Tho struggle for the possession of Cz l-novitz bridgehead continues. London June 14. The Russian cavalry is nineteen miles beyond Czernovitz, taking <5000 additional prisoners. Except for some local resistance the Austrian army continues its flight. Amsterdam. June 15. Tho news of General Brussiloff's smashing victories is sedulously censored in Germany, though w<ar critics admit an Austrian reverse. NAVAL FIGHT IN THE BALTIC

Copenhagen, June A brisk naval .encounter between tho Germans and Russians is reported in the Baltic.. A German cruiser, two destroyers and eight armoured trawlers were convoying 14 steamers near Nvkoeping when six Russian destroyers and several submarines sudde ily attacked 'with such speed; that tho German were completely surprise':!. They onlv hied a single shot. The trailers thi.® turned and made for port top speed, two arriving muoh diomuged. The Russians sank tho cruiser ni von Sagsheen. The whole crew was tlrowned. A German destroyer was sunk, but a trawler was a bio to rescue 100 of tho crew. Tho fourteen merchantmen were sunk. The fight lasted forty-five minutes. •THE ITAOAN MIOXT. London, June «5. Tho High Commissioner reports: - An 'Italian official message says: l>n our linens at Bosnia on Monday night the enemy, after intense artillery preparation, attacked in the direction ot Forni, Almi, Campiglin and Mounts Gove and Prtazone. The attack was everywhere repulsed. Yesterday the enemy confined himself to bombardment, especially at Noveguo. An infantry attack was o ovented in Upper Bome. An enemy attempt to recapture vhe positions north of Podestaugo was coin plotely thwarted. AT VERDUN. London, June 14. The High Commissioner reports: — Oil the east bank of the Meuse there was a violent enemy bombardment during the course of the night on our position north of Thiaumont Wood, Ohapetre audi south of Vaux fort. Ther" was no infantry attack, hut intermittent .artillery action on the west ba.nl*.