Second Edition Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 69, 21 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition Eastern News

GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. * United Press Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, July 20. A German official .statement, says:— The German reserve of Landwehr is lighting in this (?) region, which is wooded and marshy, affording extreme-, ]y favorable, ground for the enemy.'s resistance. General GaUowitz, further advanced, and now stands with all his troops on the Naiew line, south-west of Ostrolenka and Novpgiorgiew. The Russians, not finding protection in the! fortifications, and. bridgeheads, retreat-; • ed across the Narew. .Our. prisoners are now over twenty-eight thousand. . The.eneiny between the Vistula and the Pilitza are retreating eastwards. The Russians,, >vhn.were defeated on the 17th by General Woyrsch northwest of the Sumner, attempted to ar : rest our pursuit an prepared .positions behind the Ilzanka sector. The Sjlesian Landwehr. stormed the advanced positions yesterday, and entered the 1 line at night between Kasauow and Betranow. . . ....... I

A decision is imminent iu General Mackensen's battle between the Vistula and the Bug.'.which continues with unabated, violence,. The Russian line was broken at two points. The Russians made lesperate 'efforts to avoid defeat, and hurled up fresh troops* which were defeated.. We crossing of the Yolitza in the Crabowice district. The Austrian's crossed the Bug north of Sokal. tinder pressure of our pursuit, the enemy during the night retreated on the. entire front between the Vistula and the Bug, and resisted at only one point, where they -were severely defeated. At Yonarzs the Germans captured between tbe 16th and the 18th ;16,250 prisoners and twenty-three maehine guns. Ac; cording to JhV.. ejTJejn.yfaction,, the orders were determined without regard to losses. We maintain the positions now conquered. ~.„'> . ~. . ~ , v

ENEMY ADVANCE ADMITTED.

(Received 9.40 aajaA

i ~, . s ~ Petrograd, July 20. Official.—An enemy column in the Riga-Shayli region reached the Taky-urn-Doblin.front, a;id advanced on the 18th , southwards towards Hofy.umbergen and Benin. .Cossacks raided tjje enemy in the rear north of Okiany,, capturing an important convoy. We continue to press the enemy in the, Popeliany region, and repulsed attacks on the Shavli, positions on the night pf the 17th, and dislodged the enemry from his last treJioifcs on tbe Transniemn front, which we won. r On the loth, the enemy assumed the offensive on. the Narew ]fronli*, capturing Porely .on the right bank of tjie Pissa. 0u the '• repulsed "-'at-.: tacks on the left.bank,'-of the.iChkva,. near Vyk and Pchftte}|i(|ak;, ;Oto troops'west, of OmuOeff."'withdrew : tp* wards the Narew bridgehead, .fighting an obstinate rearguard action. The, t enemy attacks on . Wilkoiaz-Ryk-hava. front in the direct Lublin; were repulsed. Krastosnao and Vieptzand the foj-ds

above. We repulsed'Vmany attacks

on the right bank hut the enemy. established.-hj;n#sjfilf: on, the right bank of the Yolitza, near the mouth. We, thereupon, withdrew to the second line. We repulsed four

furious attacks on a wide front near

Grabowice and drove, the„,.enemy on the 17th between* Gemfchv-u - and the Bug, after desperate ; from all his trenches. Desperate fighting continues on the Sokal region and also on the vDieister, and there is a serious engagement in other directions, v' . ;...