IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

THE ONWARD SWEEP. FURTHER LARGE CAPTURES. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. Petrogrsul, Jnlv 7. Battles west of the Lower Slyi- continue with much success. Our troops captured fortified Austro-Gorinau positions and the enemy took flight under artillery (Ire. Our pursuing cavalry charged them. In the Voltchetzk region we captured a Krupp battery of six guns. The gunners were surprised and only fired a few shots. Another cavalry charge captured a battery. In addition to three heavy cannon we took prisoner 270 officers and !)00() men, and captured 20 machine-guns west of the Lower Strypa on July 4 and ">. We occupied (he first line of a German trench southwest of Lake Xarotch after a bayonet attack. Fighting continues. A conimuniipie stales that the prisoners taken on the -!th and olli west, of the. Styr line, below Kolki, numbered 300. officers and 7425 men, also many guns and rifles. Violent German attacks near Gangeaten were repulsed. Fierce fighting occurred on the right bank of the Dniester near .livntehofi' and Tlabziminz. Desperate enemy attacks eastward and south-eastward of Barancvitchi were relinked.

GERMANS MOVE WESTWARD. RUSSIAN CAINS. Rome, July 7. Advice from Pctrograd state that owing to the triple reverse at Riga, Kolki, and Baranovitclii the Hermans have begun to remove their whole front westward. Pctrograd, .Tnly 7. Since the outset of General BrusilolTs great attack the Austro-Gernian casualties have been 550,000, including 23,000 taken prisoners. They have also lost £SO caijnon and 700 machine-guns. Russia has recovered considerable areas of her own soil, ,vith larger tracts of enemy territory which she has compelled to abandon in 1015. The cutting of the Stanislau railway has enormously impeded the enemy's operations. There is a great panic in Galicia and many of the inhabitants have taken refuge at Budapest. The Germans are still reinforcing the forces in Volhvnia, but are unable 1o pierce General Kaledin's front and are sustaining great losses. General Evarts' operations are progressing and many prisoners have been taken. LINSINGEN PUSHED BACK. London, July 7. Pouter's correspondent says that Germany officially admits that General von i.insingcn, owing to superior pressure irom west of Kolki, has chosen a shorter defence line. This means that the Russians are pushing back Linsingen towards Kovel.

ON THE LOWER STYR. IMPORTANT RUSSIAN PROGRESS. LARGE CAPTURES OF PRISONERS. Received July 0, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, inly S. A comnuini(|ue states: The Russians I 011 the lower Styr, after a buttle, oc- | cuupied the line (iorodok-lirousiatin, tak- ! :ng prisoner over 2000. We sabred many Austrian? at Optovo during tlie pnrsuil after a cavalry charge, and also took GOO prisoners and a number of guns. We captured (he village of (Jregorov. east of Monastir, taking prison over 1000. The combat at Lake Xarocz is losing intensity.

AUSTRIAN VERSION. WITHDRAWAL ADMITTED. Received July 9, 5.5 p.m. Vienna. .July S. An Austrian communique states that tlie troops in the Styr salient, at Kolki. after holding- their own fur s month against the enemy forces, which increased threefold to five-fold in superiority, received instructions to withdraw their lirst lines, through fear of being surrounded.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE PROGRESSES. PRESENT POSITION SUMMARISED. BOTHMER'S ARMY 'IMPERILLED. Heuter Service. Received July !), 5.5 p.m. London, July S. Russia's gigantic offensive continues to progress. The present position may be summarised in the following; General Kuropatkin lias resumed tremendous attacks oil the lliga-Dviiisk front against General Hindenbuig: the Russians have blocked ilie Gulf Of Ki«a against tile liostile lleet, and are thus enabled to employ their warships' guns against I lie (!c-rmaus miles inland; General EvertV attack 011 the centre extends 1101 th and south of Caransvitsk. where Prince Leopold of Bavaria lias hitherto strongly resisted. The Russian attacks are here developing favorably 011 a hundred-mile front. Southward, General kins'mgen is being gradually forced back by Brusiloir's right. The Russian left, mi-' del- General Letchitsky, routed the enemy on the right bank of the Dniester.. This, together with the cutting of the important railway connecting Hungary, via Gablonitza Pass, with the Galieian system, is imperilling General liofhmer'a army, which has been holding ground on an eighty-milo front for weeks. The Russians are now within range of Dslatyn junction*

ENEMY'S RETREAT BLOCKED. THEIR POSITION GRAVE. COLLAPSE INDICATED. Received July !). 5.5 p.m. London, July 8. The Morning 'Post's Petrogrsd correspondent sitys that all the easternmost routes oi the raraiy's retreat across the Carpathians into Hungary are held by the liu-sians. The position of die enemy in Galjeia is dail.v becoming more grnve. The Kussian operations are proceeding at an accelerated rate, indicating a collapse of the enemy. .

SCENE IN HUNGARIAN CHAMBER, TICURIBLE SLAUGHTER RESEXTED, BITTERNESS ACAIXST GENERALS. Received July fl, 5.5 p.m. London, .July 8. The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent telegraphs tlr.it there were scenes in the Hungarian Chamber, members shouting for Count Tisza (the Premier), demanding protection for Transvlvaniaii territory from invasion, and insisting that the generals responsible for tlie terrible losses ill June should be called to account. Count Tisza said the lighting might be considered a passing episode. The Independent Party interrupted that it was a nice little episode wherein 100,0(10 Hungarian soldiers were slaughtered Count T ; sza continued: "In Volhvnia we are aainiiig back the lost ground, anfl in Bukowina steps have been taken to stay the enemy's offensive." The correspondent continues: "The bitterness against the Austrian generals who led the army to destruction is indescribable." BOMBING OF SMYRNA.

REPRISALS OX BRITISH RESIDENTS Received July A. '.5.5 p.m. Salonika, July S. Travellers state that in retaliation for the bombardment of Smyrna, leading British residents have been interned at Urfa, in Mesopotamia. Two urban districts in the Turkish quarter of Smyrna were buvned, and '2500 persons were killed. • (Urfa (or Orfa) is ill the north of Mesopotamia, and is mentioned in the Bible as Ur. It has a population of 135,000.)

AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. PRESSED BY THE EXEMY. "Received July 9, 11.1.i p.m. Amsterdam, July 9. An Austrian communique states: We withdrew from the Stvr salient northward of Kolki to previously allotted positions. The enemy is pressing after us at some points in great masses. The Russians, north-east of Baronovitch, were sanguinarily shattered.

GERMAN RETREAT IMMINENT. AUSTRIAN'S FBEX'ZIED FLIGHT. WOUNDED LEFT UNTENDEJJ. Eeuter Service. Received July 9 5.5 p.m. London, July 8. The determined and successful Russian offensive is almost overshadowing the 'Western Allies effort. An Italian report says a wholesale fiei-man retreat in the East lias -bosun This is unconfirmed. but the retreat is probably imminent. Meanwhile, it is clear the Austrian defeats will become a debacle, without the possibility of '"ermany savins' the situation. Details reaching iPetrogvad show the frenzy of the Austrian flight from Bukowina. A hospital was found at Ki.mpouling in charge of only a single nurse, the doctors having lied, leaving (.he wounded foodless for fifty-three hours, while the wounds that wore dangerous were not bandaged. Now that the Delaytyn-Sziget railway lias been cut. supplies for the Austrian army must be enormously delayed.