EASTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 July 1917, Page 5

EASTERN FRONT.

RUSSIAN TRAITORS. REGIMENT LEAVES THE TRENCHES. • ALLOWS THE GERMANS TO GO THROUGH. LONDON, July 21. The enemy persistently attacked twenty miles south of Brody. At firsT all attacks were repulsed, but one regiment between Batyov and Manajov left the trenches voluntarily and retired. As a result, neighbouring units were forced to retire also, giving the enemy an opportunity to develop his success. Our failure was largely due to the influence extremists. Several detachments, being ordered to support their comrades, held meetings and discussed the advisability of obeying the order. Some refused to obey. The efforts of the commanders and committees were fruitless.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. RUSSIANS RETREAT IN DISORDER LONDON, July 21. German official. —We advanced between the Sereth and Zlota Liuz through three strong zones of defence. The enemy suffered sanguinarily and retreated in disorder. We prisonered a few thousand.

There is increased artillery ijre at Attacestadt, Dunaburg, Smorgon and on the Stockhod.

B'etween the Zlota Lipa and the Dneister we repulsed the Russians near Novica. Wireless Russian official.—Enemy artillery fire is intense south-west-ward of Dvinsk. Wireless German official.-ÜBetween the Sereth and the Strypa we are closely pursuing the retreating enemy, RUSSIANS DISOBEY ORDERS. PETROGEAD, July 22. The enemy made a further offensive in the direction of Tarnopol. Our troops, lacking stability, and elsewhere refusing tO' obey commands, continued to retire, and caused the evening of the line Reniov-Sladki-Pokropuvna-Sy-budov We repulsed several attacks in the region of Novico. The enemy occupied the heights north-east of the village. The enemy attacked at the confluence of the Rimnsk and Sereth. A Roumanian counter-attack restored the situation. ACTIVITY NEAR VILNA. ' LONDON, July 21. Wireless Russian official. —There was lively artillery fire in the direction of Vilna. GERMAN .COUNTER-STROKE. TO GALICIAN THRUST. RUSSIAN LINE BROKKEN. AMSTERDAM ,July 20. In the Reichstag, Dr. Michaelis, the Chancellor, referring to the Russian offensive, said that: “General Brusiloff’s goal was Lemberg, and the oil wells near Draholiycz, in order to impair our submarine Avar. Half an hour , ago I recei\ 7 cd the following message fronf Marshal von Hindenburg: ‘Provoked by the Russian offensive in Galicia, a strong attack wms inaugurated there to-day, by and under the personal leadership of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, resulting in the Austro-Germans breaking through the Rusian positions near Zloezow, 30 miles east of Lemberg. General Brussiloff’s gains have therefore been equalised.”

ANOTHER PRO-PEACE AGITATION

ENGINEERED BY GERMANS. PETROGRAD, July 20. Lenin, the Russian 1.W.W., and proGerman agitator, has fled. Penkratoff, a Socialist revolutionary who spent fourteen years in the Slusselburg conviction prison, ||id Alexinsky, a work-ing-class member of the Second Duma in a manifesto declare that since May 29 the War Office has been aware that a pro-peace agitation has been conducted in Russia by means of German money and officers of the German General Staff, who told an officer of a Siberian regiment that they were deputed to agitate in Russia. They declare that this agitation is being carried on by the President of the Ukrainian Alliance for the emancipation of the Ukraine, and by Lenin. A crowd on Wednesday pillaged the offices of the Leninist organ “Pravda.” Subsequently General Polvtsoff ordered soldiers to occupy the “Prav da” office, and the Provisional Go vernment disconnected all telephones of the Leninist officers’ dwellings throughout Kronstadt.

PURSUING THE RUSSIANS. LONDON, Julp 22. Pursuing the Russians, we crossed the Zloczow-Tarnopol Road on both sides of Jezicrna, on a width of forty kilometres the Russians are burning villages and causing great destruction. Further fighting is expected. Austro-Hungarians re-captured positions northward of Brzozany, lost on July Ist. Russian attacks on the Dneistcr broke. We drove the enemy from Badin.

We stormed high positions at Novica

PRINCE LVOFF RESIGNS. KERENSKY APPOINTED PREMIER TEMPORARILY. PETROGRAD, July 21. Prince Lvoff has resigned, Kerensky has been appointed Premier temporarily. He retains portfolios of War and Marine. Thcretelli has been appointed Minister of the Interior, retaining the portfolios of Posts and Telegraphs.. M. Nekrosoff, who was provisionally Minister of Justice and Minister of Railways has also resigned. AUSTRO-GERMANS ADVANCING

LONDON, July 22,

Wireless ’Austrian Official.—the Aus-tro-Germans have passed beyond Augustowka, Czierna and Nesterovce. The Austro-Germans occupied portion of the first line eastward of Brzezany, also Bludniki, westward of Halicz. The enemy made an offensive on the 17th and captured a height southward of Novica. and infantry drove back the enemy and restored the position. GERMAN OFFENSIVE COMING. COPENHAGEN, July 21. Advices from Berlin represent that the German attack on Zolochov is the prelude to an offensive. DEMONSTRATIONS .SUPPRESSED. PETROGRAD, July 21. Feeble anti-Govcrnment demonstrations at Moscow and Kieff were suppressed by the local Workmen and Soldiers ’ delegates. GERMANS BEFORE TARNOPOL. LONDON, July 22. Wireless German Official. —Our troops are before Tarnopol. ..PROPOSED .AUTONOMY... PETROGRAD, July 21. The Finnish Diet passed a Bill for the autonomy of Finland, rejecting an amendment that the Bill be first submitted to the Provincial Government. THE SITUATION IMPROVED. KERENSKY’S STRONG HAND AT AT WORK. Received 9.30. PETROGRAD, July 21. The Anarchists have abandoned the last citadel at Durnovo Villa. Most of the workmen have resumed work. Ker- ; ensky is arresting all guilty relations with Germany and already several notorious Maximalists have been arrested. The whereabouts of Lenin are known. The mutinous troops have been disbanded. Further troops have arrived from the front.

Prince Lvoff’s resignation followed stormy Cabinet meetings. Kerensky, who had just returned from the front, criticised the Ministry’s military handling of the recent situation, and declared they should have used the fullest powers to suppress the meeting.