VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1917, Page 3

VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS.

Per Press Association. —Copyright v RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. rADMIRALTY—PER WIRELESS PRESS.] Received July 16tli at '11.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Russian official: We’repulsed attacks in the vicinity of Kftlusz and occupied tho ulwk® south-west of Kaluz. ■ RUSSIAN PROGRESS. WEDNESDAY’S CAPTURES TADMIRALTY —PER WIRELESS PRESS.] (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, July 14. Russian official: During Wednesday’s battles we captured ten officers and 850 men, mostly German, five heavy guns and ten machine-guns. CUT IN TWO. ENEMY RETREATING. (Australian <fc N.Z. Cable Association) WASHINGTON, Jury 14. i The Russan Embassy has received a telegram from Petrograd announcing that General Korniloff’s Galician offensive has emt the toemy forces under General Kirbacli and General Bothmer in two. Both are now procipitately retreating. r RUSSIANS ADVANCING. 1 LONDON, July 14. C Russian Official: W© crossed to the left bank of the Lommica and captured heights driving back tho enemy northwest of Chkluo. We occupied the villages of Stud zianka and Podhorki, and are now engaging the enemy, who is protecting the crossing of the Lommica south-west of Kalush in the direction °f Rozniafov and Dolina. fl ROUTE TO LEMBERG. 3 OPEN. PETROGRAD, July 14. A wireless message states that the Russians are pursuing the enemy’s light which is retiring towards the Carpathians. The route to Lembcig t and Stryja. has been opened. One Austrian corps lost its entire artillery I S ENEMY FLEEING. f. SWEEPINGSUCCESSES. ° LONDON, July 14. The “Morning 'Post’s”' Petrograd, t correspondent states that General £ Korniloff’s cavalry continues to push 1' on with irresistible dash. The in- Sl fantry are moving by forced marches • on Lemberg. The remnants of tn*» enemy opposed to General Korniloff are fleeing panic-stricken. Tho opportunity is ideal for cavalry, in which Russia is partcularly strong. Tho Austrian corps at Brzezany i» q also beaten. The rags and remnants have been entirely withdrawn and German divisions have hastily roplaced them from other fronts, and they are temporarily holding the Russian attack in this sector, though their losses ■ r *+i#n enormous. -Between July Ist and 7th in the ( Brzezany section 30,000 Germans were killed or wounded, apart from 18,000 who were taken prisoner. General Karniloif’s 'sweeping successes to tho southward have already turned the Brezezany defences aim the b Germans have been reduced to attack- £ ing in solid formation, hence their hoavy losses AUSTRIANS IN A PANIC. FLEEING FROM GALICIA. LONDON, July 15. t: The ‘Daily Telegraph’s” correspond- *" ent at Rome says Austrian reports state the population of Galicia are panicked. Thousands of families are fleeing to the interior. Vienna and Budu Pest are crowded with refugees. Divisions of Cossacks are ravaging the country. r Tturis, Dolina and Stryj are desertI progress of offensive e IMPROVING SITUATION. ® (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.'i PETROGRAD, July 15- e Th© progress of the offensive i.> favourably Jinfluending tthe political situation. The leaders and the bulk of the Socialists are disappointed _at I the German Socialists not supporting the peace terms, and now advocate the continuation of the offensive. I I IMPORTANT PROGRESS. VALUE OF CAPTURE OF KALUCZ (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 10. The importance of the occupation oi Kalucz is that it brings the Russians twenty kilometres nearer Rolina, and enables them to debouch behind the enemy’s communications, thus threatening their complete disorganisation. It will compel the armies beyond the Carpathians to retreat through territory devoid of roads, exposing the left flank to continual menace. Durjng tho retreat the Germans were concentrating reinforcements on the Dvina. ‘ '> • . , „ Transports crowded with German troops are reported in the Baltic. Hand to hand) fighting in houses and . gardens at Povelze resulted in tne mut of the enemy. Entire battalions were wiped out. ' M. Gutchkoff, ex-War Minuter, has enlisted as a private. . A GERMAN THREAT. AGAINST PETROGRAD. / ' ' .' LONDON, July 13th. The Nord and Sud agency reports that-deserters on tho Dvina front state that tho Germans are preparing to • attack Petrograd. _____