Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 64, 21 February 1916, Page 5

Russia

THE GALICIAN OFFENSIVE. 'RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN SPITE OF BIG LOSES. f United Bhkh* Association 1 London February 1!). .Mr Pereival Gibbon, writing from [Bucharest, states that the Russian !advance on the Bukovina front was a wonderful spectacle. The roads were seething like torrents as miles of toiling men and horses dragged vast batteries across the valleys and precipitous slopes, making good the ground won by bloody bayonet charges along the Hojan road. The Russians are incessantly attacking, never slackening the pressure on the trenches which the Austrians are holding across the wide valley, narrowing towards Pruth at Zaleszczyki. lighting beyond the trenches the cavalry came into action. The fighting on the Strypa-Styr line has developed, and a serious Russian offensive is being prosecuted, despite awful losses. AERIAL ACTIVITY ON THE dvinsk-rica FRONT. ENEMY USE OF CAS. Petrograd, February 19. Raid of enemy Zeppelins and aeroplanes are more 1 frequent in the Dvinsk and Riga sector. The Germans sent clouds of asphyxiating gas into our trenches in the Jacobstadt district. RUSSIAN AWARDED THE V.C. RISKED HIS LIFE FOR FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN. (Received 8.5 a.in ) Petrograd, February 20. At King George’s instance, a Russian named Semeneko was awarded the Victoria Cross for having saved a northern Russian from a trench which was practically obliterated.