RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

FbOD FOR C2ERNOWITZ.

' LUXURIOUS AUSTRIAN* OFFICERS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services.

London, June 22.

At Czernowitz 40,000 of the population have reutrned and the Russians are distributing plenty of provisions. The towii Is little damaged. The 'Daily Mail correspondent »t Petrograd says that prisoners state that , .the. Austrian colonels, lived far in the rear,.instructing their men by telephone. The' Russians found the officers' dugouts neat Dubno, with baths, rugs, pictures, mirrorsand flower and vegetable .gardens. . -

PFtANZER'S FORCE IN DANGER.

Paris, June 22.

~ rhe Echo de 'Paris states that General >&Stchinsky's vigorous advance continues. Ootßacks, have reached Radautz, 35 . miles south, of Czernowitz, and the outlook for General Pflanzert right wing is (recariouß.

aUstrians pursued.

FORCES! BISECTED. and Sydney Sun Services. Received June 23, 5.5 p.m. London, June 22. The .Daily News' Petrograd correspondeht reports that General Letchitsky is brilliantly pursuing the enemy, and that a part of the Austrian forces has letired /South along the Roumanian frontier, while the others went towards theQirpathiana, hoping to hold a fortified line on the Mikrohda and Sereth ritjkrs. Despite their delay at Czernowitz, the Russians reached-the line simultaneously, bisecting Gereral Pflanzer's forces betweeti), the Ketty and Sereth. About tiree ' thousand of the others, partly composed of foreigners, are not, apparently, immediately endangered.

AT THE STRYPA.

HUNDREDS OF AUSTRIANS s 'DROWNED. Received June 23, 10 p.m. • Hundreds of Austrians were drowned in the Strvpa. After the Russian success noith of Buczacz, the Russian enveloped the Austrian trenches on three sides. The Ausiffaiis became panic-stricken, .1 and pushed- into the river, but few reached the'west bank.

NO QUARTER GIVEN.

CNEMY USE EXPLOSIVE BULLETS. THE ADVANCE MAINTAINED. Received June 23, 10. p.m. Petrograd, June 23. communique states: After artillery preparation, the enemy took the offensive last night on the Dvinsk front, along the Ponevesh-Warsaw railways but they were everywhere repulsed The Germans occupied part of our trenches at ' Chjbatpvka, southward of Lake Vishrevskote, but our reinforcements djove the enemy out and they crossed the Krevlianian, south pf Krevo, our fire compelling then l to withdraw to the west bank. We .repulsed a German offensive west of Sok'ul, on the Styr, capturing six' hundred prironers. Tliere was violent fighting west of Svidniki, on the Stokhod, and 214 prisoners were taken. The smallne«!> of this number was due to our men not giving any quarter, owing to the enemy's use of explosive ballets. • We carried further enemy trenches in the Strvpa region, and occupied the town of Radasls