Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 5

Russia

ON THE L! PA CAPTURES. SAKE! AROFF’S SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT. ill! CO ESS ON THE LOWER DVINA Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N,Z. Cable Association. Petrograd, July 24. General Sakharoff’s victories on the , iipa river bring the totai of General d nisi Ink’s prisoners since June 8 to 500,000. General Sakharoff’s successes for the week alone cost the Austro-Gor-oiaus 50,000 casualties, being a third of the total German forces in the Lipa sector. Details of the great battle on the lower Dvina, which has been proceeding for a week, continue to be rncavre, It is reported that the Russians

t one place advanced five miles, capturing Kemrnern, twenty miles .vest of Riga, and have also driven he Germans across the Nusse from Xekkau river, which flows into the Dvina thirteen miles south of Riga. Meanwhile the Grand Duke’s summer campaign in the Caucasus is extremely promising. The weather is rood: He capturedArdasa, whereby he secured all but the last thirty miles of the great military road nulling from Trebizond to Erzingan, :rom Kelkichiften. The Russians still have a range rOOO feet high to cross before they reach Erzingan from Kelkichiften. The 27,000 prisoners mentioned in the communique are Austro-Gemails raptured at the Lipa.

AN AUSTRIAN REPORT.

i Amsterdam, July 24

An Austrian communique states: Ac are being threatened by a strong Russian attack south-east of Tarta'ov. We withdrew the troops that ,verc fighting on Magura towards the principal ridge of the Carpathians.