Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 68, 20 July 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

BATTLE IN FULL SWING. RUSSIANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY. vv - United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a.in.) Vienna, July. ID. Official.—Tlio Wattle between the Vistula and the Bug is in lull swing. The Russians are lighting with extraordinary stubbornness, frequently at hand to hand, before giving up their positions.

ENEMY CLAIMS TO RUSSIAN RETREAT.

United Press Association. Berlin. Jnlv 19

A communique from \on Buelow, near Atlanta, statesWe defeated the Russians, whose reinforcements were hurriedly brought up, capturing 3020 officers and men. and six guns and three machine-guns. '1 he Russians continue to retreat between the Pissa and the Vistula, where reserves and the Landw'ehr. under General von Scholz, stormed some’.villages.' General von Gall wit/, broke through strongly consolidated ;pf>ls it joins at Mlodzianowo and Karnicwo. The Russians are also retreating between Pilitza and the Vistula. General von Woyrech, making progress, drove a \vedge iiito the Russian position at llzanaka. forcing the Russians to retire at night, with heavy losses, .southward to Zwelen. General Mackensen made several thousand prisoners in storming the heights of Biazki.

THE RUSSIAN REPORT.

United Fresh Association.

Petrograd, July It)

A comirnmiq no v states that the battle between the Vistula and the Bug attained its extreme intensity on Saturday. We repulsed the enemy’s onset with valor and tenacity, and also repulsed ten in the Wilkolaz district. Great masses of Germans attacked the left bank of the Vipriz, and succeeded in making progress in Izdebno district, but our troops heroically'repulsed the attacks. The enemy, on the IGth. suffered very great losses in attacking positions on the river Volitza, where they left heaps of bodies in front of , our trenches. Heavy lighting is proceeding at other places on the river Bug. The enemy’s offensive against the Tukkum-Atlautz front, is continued. Large bodies of cavalry are being employed by both combatants. The attack on Frasnysz. ,)v\hic,hi>vi(6.s conducted 1 on. a wide front, forced usf to concentrate 'ouj- position nearer the Xarcw. We are also regrouping our forces to the left of. the Vistula,, and this is being carried out without molestation. We capthred two thousand Austrians, with seven machine-guns, who crossed the Dneister on Friday.