ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11652, 22 August 1916, Page 5

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

BRILLIANT RUSSIAN CAPTURE.

VAST FORTRESS TAKEN.

THROUGH GREAT DIFFICULTIES.

Petrograd, Aug, 31,

The Russkoe Slovo’s correspondent describing the Russian capture of Eliadkizebroff position, says it was the most brilliant in the history of the war. The emmy trenches, extending to the low hills between the, Sereth and the Tarndpol-Lemberg railway, were plated with iron like a'knight in armor. Massive enrtbern parapets covered a solid layer of fer-ro-concrete. Th% position was protected on the left flank by a chain of reedy lakes and marshes. The Russians surprised the enemy by a night attack where the swamps were least penetrable. The Russians worked their wav over reed beds in complete darkness, floundering in the mud and jumping from tuft to tuft. Suddenly a searchlight and star shells lit the scene and shrapnel and machine guns swept the - entire swamp. The attackers were hidden, hut the swaying rushes disclosed their movements to the gunners. The Russians pressed on in spite of heavy losses and formed groups on the firm ground. Before dawn they charged tne Aust-ro-German lines with the bayonet. In the first light of the morning a stubborn fight ensued. The enemy brought up all available reinforcements, but nothing checked the Russian impetus. Two German regiments were practically exterminated The Russians’ victory, combined with Lechitsky’s advance on Stanislau, compelled Bothmer to fall back on the Ziota Lipa line.