RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

GERMAN REPORT. GENERAL SUCCESS CLAIMED. ' . Amsterdam, Sept. J3. A German communique states' that General von Hindenburg ejected the Russians from several positions between Friedrichstadt and Jaco'bstadt, tin.' Russians further south avoiding an engagement. We pursued them for thin./ ' ;i-s southward of Jacobstadt. 0:;; advance is vigorously pro-cec-dic." ( Y il'icu. lleiow Vilmi we readied the Vilna-Dvinsk-Petrograd railway at several points. The pursuit continues. East of Grodno we repulsed ■ several strong counter-attacks. On the •lower Zelwianko 'we captured, on Sunday, 3300 men. Prince Leopold captured a thousand retreating Russians. General von Mackensen has broken the resistance on the entire front, and is continuing the pursuit in the direction of Pinsk. He repulsed several strong at•taeks westward gf Tarnopol, where we are advancing. AUSTRIAN REPORT. i SUCCESSES CLAIMED. Received Sept. 14, 9.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 14. An Austrian communique says: —The Russian attacks on the East CJalician front eontinue. Strong hostile forces in the Seretli district were repulsed, the fighting at several points developing into hand to hand combats. Russian attacks northwest of Strusow broke down under our crossfire, and others were repulsed hv the bayonet. The Austro-Germans near Tarnopol took up, at night time, a position that was prepared eastward of the Kolionow-Kezicrna, line, which joins our front on the cast bank, of the Middle Strypa. ffhe movement was not hindered by the enemy, and we reached the railway eastward of Dubno. We captured a thousand prisoners in Lithuania. RIGA CITY. NO BOOTY FOR THE INVADER. Received Sept. 14, 11.20 p.m. London, Sept. 14. The Times' Petrograd correspondent says that if the Germans enter Riga they will find an oven emptier shell than they found at Warsaw. The city is comparatively stripped of enemy comforts and requirements, and even inscription plates on the statues and the cathedral's huge bells have been removed.