RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AUSTRO-CERMAN LINES BROKEN. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE, I _«» -*.--\-%\- Petrograd, Nov. 11. A communique states that desperate fighting on the banks of the Cherniavka broke the Austro-Gennan lines, taking 2000 prisoners and twenty ma-•cbjine-guns. A large number of the enemy was drowned in the river. NEW ARMIES. TO TURN THE SCALE. London, Nov. 11. Mr. Stephen Graham, the well-known correspondent, says that the Russians' new armies of three millions will be sufficient to turn the scales in the spring. A SERIES OF SUCCESSES. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Wellington, Nov. 11. The High Commissioner reports under date London, Nov. 11, 5.10 a.m.:— Petrograd reports that in the region north of Kolky the Russians beat back German attacks at Guta and Lissovskaya. South-east of Bondka we broke through the enemy's position, taking two hundred prisoners. Many Germans iWere drowned in the river Tchernyavka. There have been small successes on the whole eastern front. BREAKING THE ENEMY'S LINES. 125,000 PRISONERS IN TEN WEEKS. Received Nov. 12, 9.50 p.m. London, Nov. 12. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent sayß that General Ivanoff has broken the enemy's front in Thrace, capturing 125,000 Austro-Germans in ten weeks. GERMAN REPORT. iIUSSTAN ATTACKS REPULSED. "Received Nov. 12, fi.3o n.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 11. A. German communique state?: General Ilindenburg, near Kenerm, wcjt of Riga, repulsed three Russian attacks, which were supported by warships. 'We withdrew during ' the night fijjjin ihe wooded ground west and south-west of Schlock, unhindered, as the ground was swampy. General von Linsingen ejected the Russians from Koseitknowka, north of the railway from Kovel to Sarny.