EASTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 July 1917, Page 5

EASTERN FRONT.

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN DRIVING A WEDGE. BETWEEN ENEMY'S ARMIES. PETROGRAD, July 12. The dasli of the Russians' Eighth Army westward drives a wedge between Prince Leopold of Bavaria on the north, and t-he A~rVhduke Joseph on the south. It is now clear that General Korniloff's was the main Russian attack, the operations of the Seventh a'nd Eleventh Armies being only auxiliary. The enemy front on the river Naraiovka was turned from the south. The enemy is bound to .hastily 1 retire ocross the Gnila Lipa, of which the lower reaches are already in Russian hands. The cavalry and Cossacks are tirelessly driving the enemy from one river to another. ROUMANIA HELPS. WASHINGTON, July 12. A cable received by the Russian Embassy from Petrograd states that the Roumanian army, having been reorganised, is participating in the Russian offensive.

RUSSIANS STILL, ADVANCING. GERMAN DIVISIONS DEFEATED. RUSSIANS ADVANCING FROM ROUMANIAN FRONT. Received 9 a.m. LONDON, July 13. The fourth day of Korniloff's progress on Dolina on the Styr road is less marked, because he was forced to fight a pitched battle directly he crossed, the Lomnica. The battle resulted in the capture of Kalusz. Korniloff's left wing was slower in advancing owing to forests and hilly country. The victory at Halicz is the more significant because it was defended by German divisions. Korniloff's ""Eagles," as his battalions are called, are now advancing on a front of forty miles. Artillery fire is increasing in violence in the Carpathian region at Dornavatra, where an advance by Russian infantry is expected. BOTHMER'S ARMIES MENACED. IN DANGER OF BEING OUTFLANKED. LONDON, July 13. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says the famous Halicz bridgehead faces eastwards, and its efficacy has been completely neutralised by Korniloff's unexpected assault from the south-west. Korniloff's advance, like a wedge into the territory between the Dneister and the Carpathians, meances the whole of Bot-hmermolli's armies, whose northeastern sector risks being outflanked. Large numbers of Czechs and Slavoks •have been prisoiiered, which seems to show that the inner crisis in Austria is having an effect at the front.

ALARMING EFFECT IN VIENNA. * LONDON, July 13. The "Daily Telegraphs" Milan correspondent says that the "Russian drive is producing an alarming effect in Vienna. Socialist papers bitterly denounce the Government for missing the opportunity of peace with Russia. The Czechs are elated over the Russian triumph. OPERATIONS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. LONDON, July 13. Wireless Russian official. —Operations on the Dneister and Lomnica continued to develop yesterday. The enemy, taking advantage of the intricate terrain, held back our advance west of Bohorodczary upon the Grab-ovka-Rosolno-Krivicz front.