Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 40, 22 January 1916, Page 8

Russia.

SUNDRY OPERATIONS. [ ONIXEU Phebb Association. 1 Petrograd, January 21. A band of a thousand marauders terrorised Plnzoli, in the Rcsht region, and threatened the Russian communications, but detachments of Russian troops cut the band’s communication with the Turkish frontier and surrounded and defeated them. A communique states: North-west of Czernovitz wo captured a sector of the enemy’s position and repulsed live desperate counter-attacks, inflicting enormous losses. , Our torpedoers in the Black Sea raided the north-east Anatolian mast *and destroyed 163 sailers, whereof 173 were provision-laden. [ We are pursuing the Turks on the Caucasian front, the enemy suffering heavy losses. AUSTRIAN CLAIMS. Amsterdam, January 21. An Austrian communique states ; The battle in Bessarabia is increasingly. violent. We repulsed stubborn attacks between Torporoniz and Bojan. The enemy several times reached our trenches but were ejected with heavy losses. Eight hundred dead Russians were counted at one spot.