Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 5

Russia

BRUSILOFF FORCINC A PATH.

Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Loudon, October 7. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent states that General Brusiloff's third great move is now irresistibly forcing a path through Germany's desperate resistance between the Pripct marshes and H&licz. v There is appalling and unparalleled slaughter. German i>risoners are arriving in thousands. Whole regiments shrinkto single .battalions during a few day's light. The Germans arc unable much longer to bear such losses. Russia freely pours forward to inevitable victory with new waves from her ocean of trained men. A semi-official statement from Petrograd warns the public against expecting rapid developments of events in Vblhynia or Galicia. Though the enemy positions are not as strong as those in northern France. Hindenburg has thrown against Russia all his main forces and nearly all his re, 'serves. Every yard is guarded and I must be fought for. We shall continue operations with unabated energy. The statement concludes: "There is hope of success in the Balkans at an early date." i A communique states that fighting continues at the Ccrfmkva and Zlota .Lipa rivers. The enemy attempted ,to recapture the ground. Four consecutive counter-attacks were repolled with heavy loss. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that fighting 'continues west' of Luck, near Brzezany, the Russian attacks being timed to coincide with the energetic operations on the Dobrudja, where, after the first reverses, the campaign is 'promising, the Allies having recovered the initiative.