Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 7 September 1916, Page 5

Russia

• - —- POSITION IN TRANSYLVANIA. THE AUSTRIAN EVACUATION. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.30 a.m.) Rome, September G. A wireless message states that the Austrians have already evacuated onethird of Transylvania, where a few Turkish troops have arrived, but no Germans. PROGRESS OF RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received ,12.10 p.m.) London, September G. A Russian communique states : e captured a fortified position in the direction of Halie/., making prisoners of 4500, of whom 2000 were Germans. The advance in the Carpathians continues. We captured a further ■series of heights, our advancing troop i at Ognot indicting great losses. Ue found corpses of Russian soldiers whom the Turks had terribly mntiliated. British armoured cars drove the Turku from the villages westward of the river Vane.