Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 63, 14 July 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

~, ; . . RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REftORT. United Press Association. Petrograd, .Ally 13. Official: There has been a violent cannonade and an outpost engagement in the vicinity of Prasnyszl. and isolated actions in the Luoiin

region. Our troops having finished a r'fronutei-offensive", occupied positions 'on the heights on the right-bank of the Urzendovka river, on the I pjjer A Bug, near the* towi) of Rusk. ‘Several . .enemy battalions attacked us, and "e S’ poured them to approach within two ' hundred paces, and. then dispersed I them. Many killed .aid wounded • .were ( left on the .ground. , . JAPANESE GUNS AND’GUNNERS. | AT THE FRONT. I Sydney, Jaly 11. I- A Sydney Mprnifig- Herald co.rresw pondent, writing from Tokio- on May il 16th", says it is now definitely known f that Japanese, guhs and gunners are f' : at* the Russian fnont. The Russian i authorities consulted the Japanese

Embassy at Petrograd, with the reL sidt that Captain Miyakawa and clr- !■;,' tain artillery officers with their own - ■ guns -were despatched from Tokio, arriving at the Russian frOnt on April 17th. ■ Their weapons are of the latest and mos£ proved equal to the Austro-German. The most skilled. Japanese officers were instructing the Russians before the latter were-sent to the front. The correspondent adds that talk of V sending .infantry, to Europe has suh- ; ' sidecL Japp.ii is at present turning P out immense quantities, of munitions. \ The arsenals* are turning but guns and ■ ammunition, •AVhklt; are being hurried ! to Russia). ; ? i ——y**—^