IN THE EAST

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1915, Page 5

IN THE EAST

FALL OF KOVNO.

aUOTR STUBBORN RESISTANCE. Berlin, August IS. Official.—Kovno foil last night. Amsterdam, August IS, A German official message says that Kovno, with all the forts and an enormous quantity of war material, including over 400 guns, was taken bj assault after the most stubborn resistance. CHANGE OF TACTICS. GERMANS SUFFERED HEAVILY. Received August 19, 10.20 p.m. Petrograd, August 19. The Germans' first advance against Kovuo was followed by a rushing method of attack, involving heavy losses. Successive columns were swept away, and simultaneous with the failure against Riga and Dvinsk they changed the Kovno tactics, relying on their artillery and bringing up the forty-two centimetre guns, j GREAT REJOICINGS. Amsterdam, August 19. Salvoes were fired to celebrate the fall of Kovno, and all church bells were set ringing. IN THE CAUCASUS. ".SEPapus : Petrograd, August IS. Official. —In the Caucasus our enveloping column captured the Klytch Pass, the Turks' principal line of communication to the right bank of the Euphrates. The Turks made violent and fruitless counter-attacks and then threw a division against the Merahemih Pass, driving out our weak fories, with the objeot of cutting eair communications. We reinforced with several battalions and made a determined attack throughout the day and night on the 9th and a bayonet assault at dawn on the 10th, which captured the pass. Establishing ourselves at Charidugh, wc pureued the Turkish along the Euphrates valley. They vainly attempted to make a Btand south of Kara;kihssc, then on the left bank of the Upper Euphrates,, and finally at Palanteken, but all their efforts were fruitless. On August I'2 we occupied the district of Melasghert, securing the' position of our left wing. We captured a number of guns, machineguns, rifles and ammunition, much commissariat, several regimental commanders, dozens of officers and thousands of soldiers. The whole district was full of parties of Askaris, who surrendered without resistance. Shells and caissons litter all the roads traversed by the Turks, indicating that tfo,e defeat was serious. ,

BOMBS ON VILNA. PREPARATIONS FOR EVACUATION. • Petrograd, August IS. The Governor of Yilna, as a precaution against occupation, has ordered the removal from the banks and factory plants of everything likely to be useful to the enemy. Taubes have dropped bombs oil Yilna. AUSTRIAN REPORT. Received August 19, 11.45 p.m. Amsterdam, August 19. An Austrian communique says:— While the Germans advanced along the left bank of the Hug, von Arz repulsed the Russians on botji sides of the Bila road, within range of Brest Litovsk fortress. Archduke Josef in the Janow district cleared the southern banik of the enemy. PALACE AS HOSPITAL. Petrograd, August IS. A great part of the Winter Palace has been transformed into a hospital to accommodate KMX I. GERMANS CLAIM MORE SUCCFjSSES Amsterdam, August IS. A German communique says:—Two more forts were stormed on%he northeast front of Novo Georgievisk, Twen■tv guns and 000 Russian prisoners were taken. The Russians are offering fresh strong resistance to Prince. Leopold s army in the Ramaionka sector, on both sides of Riematyvze. On the Bug, near I'uerstendorf, we forced a crossing, repulsing the 'enemy. Our right wing reached the south bank of the Rug. General von Maekenscn drove the enemy from the Bug into the advanced positions of Brest Litovsk. We advanced east of Wlodnwa across the railwav from Cholm to Brest Litovsk eastward.

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