Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 41, 18 June 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

The Higli Commissioner reports:— London. June 17 (11.55 a.m."

The German attacks during the last three days around the village of Laitzkow. neai- Window, were unsuccessful. The lighting on Tuesday ended in the Russians' favor. In the region of Pope-Liany the Russians crossed the Yenta. While in pursuit of. the retreating enemy the Russians cavalry sabred one hundred Germans, and some dozens were made prisoners.

Fighting at Shavh continues with varying fortune, some villages having fallen into the enemy's hands. At Dubissa there have been artillery duels. On the western front beyond the middle Niemen the enemy on Tuesday sustained heavy making fruitless attempts to take the offensive. In,the course of counter-attacks in the region of East Marimpol, the Russians captured villages occupied by the enemy. On Tuesday the enemy begun the bombardment of o»sow.iec at two o'clock in the morning, but the batteries in the fortress got the upper hand. In the Orkitz valley during Tuesday night, the enemy opened an intense artillery sre from numerous batteries. against the village of Jednorojetz, throwing tens of thousands of shells in a short space of time. On Tuesday the enemy several times tried to attack the position, their efforts ending in his occupation of only a part. North of Przasnyz, the Russians, with an energetic counter-attack re-occupied all the advanced trenches where the enemy were maintained since his action on the 12th.

In West Galicia the battle of the San continues with increasing fierceness. On the Dniester, the fighting along the front, Tismenitza-Bystritza, was continued on . Monday and Tuesday to the Russians' advantage. South of Jidatcheff, near Beriznitza and Kroulevska, the Russians captured another five hundred Germans prisoners, including 14 officers, I guns, and 6 machine guns.