Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 30, 4 October 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

GERMAN OFFENSIVE FAILINC. [PNITBi' PpESB ASSOCIATION.] PaVis, October 3. Official: The great German offensive towards the eastward of Svientziany may be considered a complete failure, the enemy -everywhere being thrown back towards their fortified entrenchments on the position from Dvihsk to Vilna. The Russians have straightened their line southward of Dvihsk to the westward of Vileyka, and have completely held up the German offensive in the direction of Pinsk and '" Riga. • . , Petrograd, October 2. Military critics consider the enemy's offensive from Riga to Pinsk has been arrested. A communique states:—A German, attack on the railway east of Mitawa was unsuccessful. Enemy aeroplanes .bombed Ustovinsk. Riga, and the station at Oguer, doing little damage of military character. The Germans, after a heavy bombardment, carried some trenches northward ,of Lake Svpnten. We carried by assault the .town of Duuilovitchi, northeast of /Lake Medziol, and also dislodged the ,enefny from the village of Ajurty and the station of Medziol. Our cavalry captxired a large enemy convoy east of Lake Xarotch. On the Lower Servetch, east of Xovo Grodok, we raided the villages of Jaki and Korolitzy, and the Gerinrns fled to their main positions, discarding their arms. We drove the erftemy over the river Chara. near ZurU eteho. Tlie enemy, after artillery preparation, attacked us near O'.orki, southeast of Kolki. and advanced .«»« hundred paces, sustaining, enormous losses. They then broke, and fled in disorder, with heavy losses. The flight contimies south of Oborki.