RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

"J THE HEAVENS BLOOD-RED. CAXXONADE AT CZERXOVITZ. Milan, Jan. 18. Tlio Frankfurter Zeitung's correspondent at Czcrnovitz, describing the Russian attack, says the heavens were bloodied with the frightful cannonading. The Russian consumption of ammunition was astounding; they drenched our position with tire and carried out a tremendous bombardment of our communications, submerging the Austrian? by a barrier of fire and forcing them to surrender. The I'.nssian infantry nt-(a.-keil in masses, as many as twenty columns sweeping onward simultaneously.

THE OFFENSIVE CONTINUES. EXEMY IX RETREAT. TOWNS EVACUATED. London, .Tan. 18. The Times' correspondent at Petrograd says that there is unabated fighting on the Strypa and at Czernovitz There, is a heavy concentration of German troops in Galieia and Bukovina. Unofiicial reports from South iPoiiese state that a large sector . has been cleared of Austrlans and Germans and several miles of enemy trenches are in Russian hands. The Austro-Gcrman front has been pierced in many sectors and the advance continues. The German losses, casualties and sickness are enormous.

(Pinsk has been evacuated and the enemy have fled from Charto pani;strieken under ceaseless shelling, discarding rifles, cartridges, and upper garments. They are now hurriedly bringing up heavy guns and reserves from KiunarofT. Now York, Jan. 18. Kiev reports that the Germans are evacuating Lutsk.