EASTERN BATTLEFIELD

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 15 October 1915, Page 5

EASTERN BATTLEFIELD

RL SSI AN HAMMER AT WORK.

ENEMY FAIL IN FOUR WEEKS’ BATTLE DRIVER BACK AT DVINSK. SHATTERED IN GALICIA, A BAD LOOK OUT. LONDON', October 1 p Ail reports emphasise the importance of the Russian successes. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd (orresponclent says it is .estimated three enemy divisions were shattered at the Strypa river. The success will compel the Austro-Germans to rearrange their forces. The situation at Dvinsk has improved. The enemy had reached to within six miles of the town. Their nearest position is now ten miles. The fury of the German onslaught has weakened. Failing in frontal attacks at Novoe Alexandrovisk mad. the Germans moved to IDukst, where they are barred by dense forests in the watery dstrict south-east at Dvinsk. The Russians are advancing steadily. Renter’s Petrograd correspondent states that the municipality of Dvinsk. which was transferred to Veteask, is returning. Military critics opine that the retreat of the Germans at Sven ten is menaced. Williams, a. correspondent, says that at Dvinsk the enemy, despite frontal attacks, was held at bay for 27 days. The hope of forcing the Dvina is no brighter than a montfa ago. On the southern flank in Galicia the Russian success is even more marked than in the west. STRIKING SUCCESSFULLY FOLLOWED UP. The Russians’ striking success in Galicia, writes Mr Harold Williams,the “Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent, is being followed up. It not only gives a considerable strategic advantage on the southern-front, but it undermines any possible moral ecect on Roumnaia of the recent concentration of A astroGerman troops in Ga.li! i. and Br.aowina near the Roumanian frontier. As the result of a five months’ campaign the Germans have not reached a secure line where to entrench for the winter Other fronts draw the enemy's attention. When the Germans in Russia were forced to take the defensive, the enemy counted on establishing a strong line at Vilna-Berezina-Dnieper, but the calculation was’falsified.