ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 21 August 1915, Page 5

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

NOVO GEORGIEVSC FALLEN. A BERLIN REPORT (Reed 8.45 a.m.) $ BERLIN, August 20. Official; The Germans have captured Novo Georgievsc. GERMAN SUCCESS CONFIRMED PETROGRAD, August 20. A communique confirms the German -success at Novo Georgievsk. The battering of the northern sector continues. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. GERMAN PROGRESS ADMITTED PETROGRAD, August 20. Official: Our warships protecting the Riga gulf drew closer owing to the . enemy’s superiority. ** The enemy at Kovno continues vigorously u develop his success. He hag occupies the town and advanced further. He has established himself on the isthmus between the Niemen and the Ivilica. Fighting continues with extreme teni acity from Ossowiec to Brest Litovsk, ? also cn th e lower Bohr in the direction of Bielsk and near Vlodava. Th e enemy is attacking the Novo George visit forts cn the right hank of the Vistula and on the Narew with increasing vigour. The fighting is most deftern-ViuevL O'Ur eutanjgljemeiVts arje covered with heaps of German bodies, but th e German artillery, developing the maximum intensity, silenced our guns and demolished the fortifications between th e Wkra and the Narew, after which the defenders, despite all efforts were obliged to withdraw to the right bank of the Wkra. The Germans are thus enabled to concentrate their efforts on the northern, sector between the Wkra and the Vistula,

ENEMY NAVAL SUPERIORITY. LAND FORCES STILL RETREATING. yf PETROGRAD. Aug. 20. Official: Russian ships covering the Gulf of Riga, after a fight on Wednesday, owing to great superiority of the enemy fleet retreated to the next posii tion. ! The enemy having occupied Kovno they advanced further and succeeded in getting a footing nearest the town betAveen the rivers Nicmen and Wilia. In the Novo Goorgiesk sector the Russians have retreated. A BERLIN OFFICIAL RUSSIA’S LAST BULWARK IN POLAND CAPTURED. THE KAISER’S THANKS. (Reed 9.40 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 20 An official message from Berlin states that Novo Georgievsk, th e enemy’s last bulwark in Poland, Avas captured after stubborn resistance. The whole garrison and an enormous stopk of AA-ar material Avas captured. Th e Kaiser has gone there to pay liis and the Fatherland’s thanks to General Von Besseler, and his troops.