THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1917, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

Per Press Association. —Copyright

THE REASON WHY

LONDON, July 4th

General Brusiloff, in am interview, said that his offensivo last year might have ended the war if the High Command had co-operated, which it did not. It was the retreat in 1916 that made him a revolutionary.

THE STEAM ROLLER

ENORMOUS CAPTURES.

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LONDON, July sth

Russian Official: During the lighting on- Sunday and Monday ue captmod 300 officers and 18,000 men, also twenty-five guns and thirty-three machine guns. AUSTRIAN A DMISSION. colossaiTlosses. j ~ROME, July 4th. | Tho Austrian papers for the first time admit that the front near Zloehoff | has been broken and that reserves are being brought from every quarter. The j losses are colossal but tho breach has been provisionally closed by Turks. A TORPEDOER SUNK.

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(Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, July 5.

Russian official. —There was art-illery-ing of varying intensity, eastward and southeastward of Brzezany where our attack did not materialise.

We repulsed enemy counter-attacks at Micozysgoov. Wo captured Pendjvjn in tho Caucasus.

A torpedoer of an old type, wa's mined in the Black Sea.

THE ROLLER ROLLING

ADVANCE ON WHOLE FRONT

(Received This Dav at 11.25. a.ifi.) PETROGRAI), July 5.

The armies in Gfriicia continue to advance, a thrill of hop 0 and energy passing the whole front- The armies arc in motion from Brzezany to IJalich. The initial success is being followed up. Cheering crowds .throng the Nevsky , swelling the number of enthusiasts as fresh reports of victories grow.

At a meeting before Kazan Cathedral, Plekhanoff, a Social Democraticleader, was speaking, when tho Cathedral doors opened and the clergy came out t° bless the people. Tht crowd, who were singing revolutionary songs, stopped and fell on their knees, nnd chanted hymns for the eternal memory to the first soldiers to die for the Republic. , Processions visited and cheered the British Legation. Sir George Buchanan and Hon Henderson addressed the crowds.

At a meeting of the Congress of Soldiers and Workmen’s Delegates they approved of the advance, with Y 4 dissensions.