Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 20, 22 September 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. United Press Association Vienna, September 21. A communique says: We repulsed a strong Russian attack at Eastluck. There is hand-to-hand fighting at many points. A Russian column attacked Czernowitz and reached the west bank of the Ikwa, but our reserves speedily repulsed them. Petrograd, September 21. Official: The Russians took seventy thousand prisoners on the front south of Polesnee, during the last days of August, and the first week in September. . A communique states: We occupied our former trenches at St. Eidern, south-west of Illutsk, seizing a quantity of rifles and material. We retired eastward in the A ihia region, after much fighting on the middle Vilica fords. Fighting continues for possession of th© Vili.ca- fords, northwest of Melodechno. Our troops show high military virtues and maintain a coolness and assurance in circumstances of extreme gravity. The Russians stripped Vilna of all metals, including the church bells. They 'defended the city' until the last possible moment, and are now fighting between the Vilica and''Vilna, and on the Lso* kiilwfiy. The OerWah cavalry have l>een repulsed from Melodfdino, bufc the.fi seized the station at Vjlezkt. It is feared that if the Germans cavlalry fail,tcL cut off the 1 Russians reflating from Vilna they frill attempt a bigger enterprise against Minsk, threatening the communicaions of all armies on the Western front. The movement of fifty thousand horsemen recalls the great cavalry raids of the American Civil War. The stj|ngg]e is entering a new phase on swampy land, finder autumn rains. G eheral Ivan off is prudently suspending his advance on ■ the:■ Sereth owing tojfthe enemy being reinforced from sections of General Mackensen’s wide-ly-spattered army. Our cavalry ’pursued" the retreatirig enemy to the Luzk region, sabring many anR capturing a forge supply column, v