RUSSIA'S TASK.
THE GALICIAN OFFENSIVE, PURSUED WITH VIGOR, IX SPITE OF BIG LOSSES!, Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 19. llr. Pereival Gibbon, writing from Bucharest) states that the Russian advance on the Bukovina front was a wonderful spectacle. The roadß were seething like torrants as miles of toiling men and hornfe dragged vast batteries across the valleys and precipitous slopes, making good the ground won by bloody bayonet charges along the Bojan road. The Russians are incessantly attacking, never slackening the pressure on the. trenches which the Austrians are holding across the wide valley, narrowing towards Pruth at Zaleszczyki. Fighting beyond the trenches the cavalry cante into action. The fighting on the Strypa-Styr line has developed, and a serious Russian offensive » being prosecuted, despite awful Ibises, ,
ON THE DVINSK-RIGA FRONT. AERIAL ACTIVITY. ' Received Feb. 20, 6.5 p.nij .- Petrograd, Feb. 19. Hilda or- enemy Zeppelins and aero-' planes are more frequent in the Dvinsk and Riga sector. The Germans sent elouds of asphyxiating gas into our trenches in the Jacobstadt district. Our warships destroyed the coastal bridges "west of Trebizona and destroyed fifteen sailing ships.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 5
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186RUSSIA'S TASK. Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 5
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