Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 1 June 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

RUSSIANS PURSUE ENEMY. A SERIES OF VICTORIES. ENEMY EVERYWHERE EXPELLED BLACK SEA FLEET ACTIVE. Received June 1, 12.35 a.m. Petrograd, May 31. Official: Our troops are pursuing the Germans. At Sliavli we captured nine guns and seven machine-guns. We compelled tlie enemy to evacuate the right bank of the San to the mouth at Lubackzowka. We delivered a series of counter-attacks against the principal enemy forces clinging to Kalniko Naklo on both sides of the River Wisznia, capturing in one day 3000 men, including sixty officers. We defeated the enemy beyond the Dneister, capturing 000(1 men and seventeen machine-guns. W(> expelled the enemy from the right bank of the Svitza. The fleet in the Black Sea bombarded' and destroyed electric works and establishments for the production of oil.. HELSINGFORS BOMBED. A STEAMER DAMAGED. Received June 1, 12.35 a m. Stockholm, May 31. "Zeppelins dropped bombs on Tlelsingforts (the capital of Finland) and destroyed a passenger steamer and some cotton sheds. (Helsingfors is 1!)0 miles' west by norr.h of St. Petersburg, on the Gulf of Finlahd.) FIGHTING ROUND PRZEMYSL. SCENE OF A BIG MOVEMENT. Petrograd, May 30. Official.—The enemy has made prOdigidus efforts during the last few days to encircle Przcmysl. The enemy on the San began to change the front on the -oth, constructing fifteen bridges. Gener.il Maekensen, on the '2-ttli, hurled his irinies between the rivers Liniutalehevka ind San simultaneously at the enemy's left flank, and with hundreds of thou- i sands of infantry and a thousand guns attempting to turn us on the left bank of the San on a 15-mile front in the direction of Radoma and -Drogoteher. I'lie Austro-Gernian armies, which should have aided General 'Maekensen to iurn Przcmysl from the south, were decimated near Guisakow, while General liimanof, the hero of Port Arthur, crushed .he garrison of Labiseco, behind General Maekensen. General Maekensen is repenting, on a much larger scale, the manoeuvre tried at Lodz in November. The present manoeuvre is still incomplete, and though some, infantry regiments have lost three-quarters of their ffVeetives, it is premature to speak yet of the result, despite favorable signs. The Observer, Petrograd, says- the limnd Duke Nicholas lias again proved the superiority of his strategy. The flcnnan battering-ram became immobilised for a week, and was heavily hampered. It then attempted tactical manoeuvres, but their development was slow .ind owing to the distance from railways it was impossible to repair the failure of the battering-ram.