RUSSIA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 97, 26 July 1916, Page 6

RUSSIA

AUSTRIANS RE-FORMING. DIFFICULTIES o 7 FLOODS ON THE dNEISTER. TYPHUS IN DVINA SWAMP. » ' I—_— SERIOUS EPIDEMIC AMONG THE ' ,**EMY. . V Press AsßoCiation--Copyright, Australian and tt.Z. Cable Association. (Received IQ.fi. ajm.), .. 1 2fi. Though the Dneister floods make the region impassable for infantry for two- weeks, and thus enable General Bothiner to 'transfer forces elsewhere, he, has already concentratj ed certain of his effectives in the Carpathians along with •. the new army composed of the remnants of General PflanzerV army and the troops from the Trentiho and Balkans. There, is a serious epidemic of ty-phus-'among -the -Germans in' the Dyina. swamp, and the hospital at yilna is crammed. The mortality is great. v.;n • -tr FICHTIHC AT VARIOUS POINTS ' AN THE FrtONT. TttAKS IN THE CAUCASUS IN * disorderly Retreat. \ >

Pipas Association—Copyright,,, Australian abtf i’N.Z, Gable Association. ('Received 12.35 p.m.) . Petrograd, July 25. A Russian* communique states; A flotilla bombarded inost, of the enemy positions on the banks of Lake Madzhol, eastward of Lake *Narotch. We repulsed an attack in the Somotink© district near Luck, and captured two guns. Street fighting occurred in the village of Galichanie, ' N A ifurious battle is proceeding in the Leshny region. The Turkish armies on the Caucasian front are in disorderly retreat.

A GERMAN ADMISSION. RUSSIANS PENETRATE v ; ., a , A German■ fcomfnuhique states: The enemy suc&Ad 'in penetrating the first‘line south of Stonowka* sputjbi ,pf' Beresteczko. CHANCES DUE TO POLITICS. • (Received 12.&5 p.m.} 'Kew Y6rk, July 24. The Times’i correspondent at’Peti ograd says M. S&zanoiFs resignation is probably due t| internal politics. M. Stumer assured the Ambassadors there would. jjjei.npycli'aritge of policy. The reactionary. p?ess welcdmes AU Sazanoff’s v