Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 82, 5 August 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

RUSSIAN RESISTANCE. COLD STEEL v. SHOT AND SHELL GERMAN OFFENSIVE IMPEDED. United Pit ess Association. (Received 9.50 a.in.) Petrograd. August 4. Official.—The enemy, after three clays of enormous efforts, dislodged its sector on the Narell, stretching from O.Holenka to Lodz on the Pissa-Sknu

front. After having thrown against us the whole army, it took a whole week to drive hack our rearguard from one village. The light lor passages over the Nareff, near Novogorod. has not yet begun. Near the mouth of the Skua, the enemy reached our side of the river, hut we prevented the artillery crossing, and with the bayonet annihilated some of the elements which deprived the artillery of protection. Some of the enemy’s forces have withdrawn to help the Rosen army, which was also strengthened by reinforcements from the left hank of the Vistula; nevertheless, all his efforts at progress towards the last was broken by the river Oje. The enemy then changed the direction of his attack, and is now on the front between the Narell and the Oje, making great efforts to advance in a north-easterly direction behind Ostrolenka. For three days he repeatedly hurled masses of infantry at our trenches, suffering heavy losses, and only advanced two or three versts. On the 2nd during a desperate Oerman attack, we saw cavalry being assailed by our infantry, and losses were very great. In the southern sector, near Bokshivnitz, the enemy endeavoured to pass large masses across the Oje \ alley, but our artillery smothered and dispersed them. Our losses were very heavy, hut the troops are valiantly resisting the plan to deal a severe blow from the Nareff Hue on the rear of the Russian armies, which are impeding General Vou Mackeuseu’s offensive in, the Wioprz Valley.