RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

IN GALICIA. , THE ENEMY DISORGANISED. ~ ':***'• •• *: "" Petrograd, Jan. 11. A communique states that the enemy IB GaJkia east «.. Czernovitz suffered such} enormous losses as the result of our rapid and fierce blow, and was so disorganised by his desperate and fruitleas counter-attacks as to be unable to hinder our consolidating the captured

A GERMAN WARNING. ; , BUSSIAN EFFORT NOT ENDED; ' Amsterdam, Jan. 11. The Kokische Zeitung says that the slackening of the struggle in Galicia docs not mean that the Russian offensive has ended. It only means that the enemy is taking a breather, and that great reinforcements are 'being brought up. The Russians are using great quantise* of Japanese ammunition and the greater part of the infantry U araed with Japanese rifles, - TWO MILES DAILV, i -RUSSIAN WAVE ROLLS SLOWLY OX, fiERMAN Received Jan. 12, ha p.m. Paris, Jan. 11. ' it. Nandean, writing from fpetrograd, States that the great Russian offensive ' i« progressing slowly, at t'ho rate of ' two mile* daily, on a front of 350 kilometres. ' The intensity of the German counterattacks is exhausting itself on the numerous entrenchments constructed by the advancing Russians. The enemy's attempts to threaten the Russian left flank, and make a thrust "between the Russian positions -jjid Roumanian, territory, failed.