Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 21 October 1915, Page 5

Russia.

AUSTRIANS EVACUATE CZERNOWITZ. IVANOFF SUCCESSFUL. United Press Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London. October 20. Owing to General LVanoff's successes the Austrians have evacuated Czenowitz. THE ATTACK ON DVINSK.

London, October 19

The Paris Journal's Petrograd correspondent says that the attacks at Dvinsk cost the Germans eight thousand casualties.

Prisoners state, that the defeats have provoked a ' serious misunderstanding between .General Rindenburg and the Kaiser.

TERRIFIC FIGHTING.

Petrograd, October 20

A communique states: Terrific fighting in the Northern sector continues We brilliantly 'followed up per »"<" cess on the Middle Stry, capturing manv prisoners and machine-guns, north of Rafalonka. We stormed. Tchartorysk, and, turning the enemy s flanks, captured seven hundred of the First and nine

guns. Owing to the Germans' use ot explosivebullets the Russians became exasperated, and bayoneted a number of the same regiment. Hie pursuit continues. Experts claim" that the, Germans are utilising a railway .iu the fortified narrow passage between the Lakes, and every resource of military engineering has been resorted to.-Heme every step must be. won by hard hght-

One -typical example is this. The Germans' were entrenched along a , se ries of terraces up th *Mpe S ot tue hill all well furnished with ma-h-ne-guns. The Russians, however, rush, ed the Hill at the pjnnt of the hayonet, killing the majority of the defenders.;, ; .; •• ( .< /■ \\i, f >*J

OFFICIAL REPORTS. . i',U; ' I ' I The High Commissioner reports: London, October 20 (5.25 a.m.) In the region of Riga the Germans seized! the village of Tvfsch • and are advancing, in the region of Mrtau RuSikn avaitors bombed Mitau and Grossekau. . In the Pripet region the Russian success was brilliantly developed and many prisoners taken by a swift blow •at Novoselkay. The enemy was driven, to flight.