FROM WARSAW TO RIGA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1915, Page 5

FROM WARSAW TO RIGA.

THE PLAN OF THE INVADEIiS. RUSSIANS KEEP TUEM AT BAY. Received August 11, 8.35 p.m. London, August 11. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent says:—Following the Russian retirement from Warsaw, the Germans shifted the momentum of their main attack to the left flank, with the immediate object of cutting the Petro-grad-Warsaw railway somewhere between Pskof and Vilna. The fleet were actively co-operating in this fresh operation, and though the} lost a cruiser and two destroyers in the'first attempt to enter the twentyseven mile passage between Asel and the mainland, it is unlikely that this will be the last attempt to penetrate the Gulf of Riga. None of the Russian vessels gufl'crcd. The purpose of the Germans is to secure a passage for supplies and water to the troops operating towards Riga. They already hold the western shores of the Gulf, but desire seaward access. Petrograd, August 11. The focus of the enemy's pressure is eastward of the Ponieviteh-Wilkomir line, Ueneral Scli*mettttn's cavalry made extensive reconnaissances, turning southward from Ponievitch, indicating that the objective was Vilna, which was recently a special target for aviators.

Official: On.the roads from Riga.we repulsed on the night of August S-9, by hand-to-hand fighting, several German attacks, supported by a powerful force of heavy artillery. On the following day, in the direction of Dwinsk and the district of Sehoenburg-Wilkomierz, the enemy fell back, leaving a hundred prisoners, several machine-guns, and munition chests. There was desperate fighting on the Narew front. Our artillery repulsed an offensive against Novo Georgievsk, and on the roads from Yoldara we repulsed attacks made under cover of asphyxiating gases. ADVANCE ON RIGA CHECKED. Paris, August 10. A telegram from Petrograd states that the Germans have been repulsed twentythree miles from Riga. AUSTRIAN REPORT. Received August 11, 8.35 p.m. Amsterdam, August 11. An Austrian official message records a further advance ;n the Vistula resricn We crossed the Vieprz at several points and captured a bridgehead near Czernelica, on the south bank of the Dneister. Ilie Russians stubbornly defended it. We prisonered twenty-two officers and 2800 men, and took much material. VILNA TO BE ABANDONED. Petrograd, August 10. The Russians are preparing to evacuate Vilna.