Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 36, 12 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

BIG RUSSIAN CAPTURE. SUCCESSFUL DRIVE ON THE DNEISTER’S BANKS. Uhitxd Prim Association. (Received 9.10 a.in.) Petrograd, June U. Official.—We drove back on Thursday to the right hank of the Dniester strong forces which had crossed to the left bank near Jairasnot and had extended to Siwaka. The enemy sufl'ered-heavy losses. We captured seventeen guns, 49 machine guns, 188 officers, and 6500 Austro-German soldiers, including an entire company of the Prussian Guard. I , PREPARING TO LEAVE LEMBERG f , r London, June *ll. The Rnsismns are preparing to evacuate LrTtbc AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Petrograd, June 11. Official: The enemy in great force attacked onr position protecting Moscisk.s. They opened on Tuesday evening, and for three hours there was an extremely active artillery tiro, partly using gas shells. Then, groat masses of infantry were hurled forward, the assault reaching the wire entanglements, where 1 it stopped. Tm- enemy on Wednesday suffered severe losses,

and wore thrown back two thousand paces from the trenches. We,pressed the enemy on tho Ug-artsberg-Zhidaszew front, capturing two thousand, including fifty officers and eight machine guns. The enemy in the Zurawno region, after a fierce flight, were driven back behind the railway. We captured some villages, taking prisoners 800, including many officers. HELPING THE EMPIRE. Petrograd, June 11. Mr Lloyd George’s munition speeches have reached the Russian industrial centres. A congress of the trade" and industry at Moscow recorded its desire that all the industrial resources of the Empire should lie mobilised and co-ordinated for supplying the army.