FIERCEST FIGHTING CONTINUES IN BUKOVINA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 37, 14 February 1916, Page 5

FIERCEST FIGHTING CONTINUES IN BUKOVINA.

DESPERATE HAND TO HAND ENCOUNTERS. IN THE CZERNOWTTZ REGION. HEAVY FIGHTING AROUND ’T ARNO POL.i (Reed. 5.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 13. Berlin messages, via Amsterdam, state that fighting in Bukovina is igain cfcrthe most violent, the Russian attacks on Aarancze heights, tear Czelnowitz^rbeing particularly terrible. Desperate hands to hand ighting lasted for hours. Most infantry fighting occurs during the night, artillery prevailing in the daytime. A to-day’s French wireless say s there is much Russian infantry actiity on the Yiolhynian front and in east Galicia. Strong detachments atacked the Austrian lines in the Tarpopol region. There i s also violent ghting on the Bessarabian frontier. A German official message merely remarks that advances were made y Russian patrols at several points along the front, but were repulsed.