RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE TURN OF THE TIDE. RUSSIA HOLDING HER GROUND. Received Oct. 10, 3.30 p.m. Petrograd, Oct. 9. A communique says: Fighting is incessant along the whole Dvinsk front. The enemy made repeated furious attacks, and in some cases took our trenches, but at other parts we took the enemy's. An intense artillery fire has now developed on both sides. With the assistance of an armored trgin we successfully attacked Stavou, north-west at Klevan, capturing 1900 prisoners. There were successful actions between Dulbno and Lutzk,. where we took 1500 prisoners.

AUSTRIAN REPORT Received Oct. 10, 3.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Out. 9. An Austrian communique says: We captured four thousand prisoners in the Wolhynian territory on October '0 and 7. Austro-German crossings of the Drina, Save, and Danube have continued.

THE GERMAN ADVANCE. PRACTICALLY AT A STANDSTILL Received Oct. 9, 55 p.ui, London, Oct. 8. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent states that the main evidence that the German advance has lost its impetus is the map. There is plenty of proof that the Germans are digging themselves in round Dvinsk, where for weeks an incessant battle has raged among the lakes and swamps. The enemy are no nearer their objective, which is to take Riga in the rear, and the balance of the recent fighting on the quadrilateral Dvinsk-Polotzy-Vileiki-Vilna has been emphatically on tlie side of Russia.

A neutral critic gives the German strength against Dvinsk as 700,000, but a military writer in a Russian official organ is of opinion that the number is 350,000.

The correspondent continues: On the Sereth and in Galicia a large concentration of German troops is said to be awaiting developments in other regions. Prisoners taken at the German front admit that the German troops are worn out, and assert that nocturnal attacks are carried out undei the influence of intoxicants, barrels of which are brought into the trenches after nightfall. Many Germans were captured in a drunken sleep, and their uniforms and boots generally are dilapidated. Soldiers who fall are immediately stripped of their boots, and even the wounded men have been found bootless.

RUSSIAN AIR RAID. GERMAN ''TIN-CANS" AT THE CRIMEA, Received Oct. 11, 12.5 a.m. Petrograd, Oct. 10. A communique, says: Our aeroplanes successfully bombed trains and munition depots at Czernovitze. Enemy submarines are near the Crimea, and our destroyers are pursuing them. GERMAN REPORT. Received Oct. 11, 12.5 ajn. Amsterdam, Oct. 10. A Berlin official message says: From before Dvinsk to as far as Garbunawka, southward of Illut, we sortied on the enemy positions on both sides of the niut-Kilbimie front, which the enemy abandoned. We made repeated attempts in strength on Lisingcn and stormed three villages south-westward of Pinsk. Cavalry fighting is proceeding. The enemy north-westward of Czertoysk were repulsed behind the St.vr, and enemy attacks northward of the Kovel-Rovno railway failed.