Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 59, 8 November 1915, Page 5

Russia.

GERMANS REPULSED NEAR DVINSK. TJnitbu Press Association. Petrograd, November G. A communique reports the failure of the German attacks near Dvinsk, where the enemy left one thousand dead. We repulsed the enemy attacks in the southern theatre. RUSSIAN BOMBARDMENT FROM THE SEA. Petrograd, November G. Russian ships opened fire against tlie German positions near Schlok, west of Riga. RUSSIAN INITIATIVE ON THE STRYPA. CAPTURE OF 28,000 MEN. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Petrograd, November 7. The initiative in Galicia, is with the Russians, who between November Ist and 4th by means of sharp blows on the Strypa captured 28,000 men and fourteen cannon. SITUATION IN NORTH SATISFACTORY. SUPERIOR RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. (Received 12.10 p.m.) Paris, November 7. General Nandean says that the genera! situation at Riga and Dvinsk is most satisfactory. Dvinsk is the key of the Dvina line. German prospects of capturing the town grow more hopeless and they have fallen hack five [versts, abandoning fortified trenches. Everything bears testimony of rehabitation. The Russian artillery often I silences the euemys’.