TUESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 September 1915, Page 3

TUESDAY

Hill Won at Anzac — Courage of New Zealanders — Russian Progress in South—German Advance in Vilna Region — Attack on Servians Repulsed

During the last week in August the Australians and New Zealanders carried Knoll 60, the last crest of the last ridge separating Anzac from the northern plain, ana 1 added 400 acres or ground to the Anzac position. The Turkish losses were extremely heavy. Reuter's correspondent describes how, earlier in the month, Turkish battalions came under the fire of ten machineguns under Captain Wallingford, and left dead calculated at 5000. -

The Russians continue their snccess in the south. Fighting in the triangle formed by the fortresses of Luck, Rovno, and Dubno, in Volhynia, near the Galician border, they drove the Austrians back, and captured over 2600 prisoners. A Geneva report states that an Austrian defeat is inevitable.

The Germans claim to have captured Vilna, an important centre on the Dvinsk-Rovno railway. Russian communiques, while making no reference to the fall of the city, admit that the Germans had cut all the railways to it except one. They add that a great battle is expected in the Lida district, 60 miles south of Vilna.

The Servians have repulsed three Austrian attempts to cross the River Save, which joins the Danube at Belgrade. • \

Danish reports affirm the loss of a German submarine and three hydroplanes. Three submarines were observed off the coast of Norway, there was an explosion, and only two remained.

Under a bombardment by a British naval force the Ostend breakwater and fortifications, and all the enemy boats and works, suffered destruction,

The French artillery has been effective on the western front. Four German ammunition depots have been blown up, and an antiaircraft battery put out of action.