Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 29, 10 January 1916, Page 5

Russia.

THE RECAPTURE OF GZEftNO- | Ij.NUl'.i) i. ,vl-..-..-5 .ISSdClAlltiN. | Petrogrudj January S. The Russians' main attack :u Czernowitz was precedeu by a bombard meht. Four uu.,aiv.. guns ' (iJ ' -luhaul's rai.nd sin II;; coiitmuoi.; ly 0.. tiie town and the infantry charge followed immediately. The Czar has taken up his headquarters in the vicinity. A communique report..: Th? enemy drove us out of C'zartorysk, but we counter-attacked and .recaptured the town, which we have held firmly since. Our troops in jthe middle Strypa region captured sections of the enemy's position, taking over a thousand prisoners. We captured the town 'of Czareorysk and a height two yersts westward of the town. The Anstrians, using asphyxiating gases, attacked north-east of Czernowitz, but were repulsed.

AUSTRIAN CLAIMS

Amsterdam, January 8

An Austrian communique estimates that the Russians lost fifty thousand in the New Year lighting on the Bessarahian frontier and Strypa., RUSSIAN STRENGTH IN BUKOWINA. WEEK'S AUSTRIAN LOSSES, 100,000.

BULCARS HASTEN To HELP OF

INLAND GARRISONS

(Receive*] jlffi'.a.ra.J Bucharest, January 8

There are one hundred thousand Rubians with' 3,500 guns in Bukowimi. The Austrian casualties for the week were 100,000. Bulgarians are hurrying from the Balkans and the IsonzO to the nils nd garrisons.

FIERCEST FICHJiKC RACING.

AVALANCHE OF RUSSIAN SHELLS. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Petrograd, January 9. . Tire battle raging in Bukovina is the fiercest in region since the war. German prisoners declare that the cannonade is worse than the bombardment on the West front in September. Certainly, Russia never before poured out such a furious avalanche of shells.