SERIES OF HEIGHTS CAPTURED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 11 August 1916, Page 5

SERIES OF HEIGHTS CAPTURED.

RAILWAY BRIDGE SECURED ADVANCING IN GALICIA. Petrograd, Aug. 10. A communique says: We crossed to tbe right bank of theKoropetz river pushing .back the enemy and capturing a series of heights at Whyard and Yelesnewy and ’ southward of Nijnioff-Monasteryska, capturing the railway bridge across the DneisWe advanced westward of . Tismienitu towards Stanislao. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. London, Aug. 10. An Austrian ' communique says : We captured the heights eastward of Warochta, on the Upper Prnth, and withdrew from the vicinity of Ottynia to previously prepared positions. We repulsed strong attacks on Bothmer’s southern wing. The lighting in Volhynia is of the most violent description. The Russians were driven back at certain points, also near Kisicli and the Stokhod salient. Siberian and Uuard troops, attacking in masses near Kaizowka, were everwyhere driven back. The whole field fronting onr positions was covered with corpses as the result of the enemy’s suicidal methods of fighting. RUSSIAN GAINS AND LOSSES. RETIR MENT ASIA MINOR. Loudon, August 9. A Russian official despatch states that west of Grumueh Khod we drove off the Turks commanding the height and captured a village south of,,Kegi. ’Owing to enemy pressure wo retitfed north to the region of Mush and Bit)is.