IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

STRENGTH OF RUSSIAN FORCES. NEARLY THREE MILLIONS. GERMANS OUTMANOEUVRED. ENORMOUS CAPTURES MADE. GERMANY'S CHANCE LOST. Received July 11, 9.40 p.m. London, July 11. The latest news as to the Russian offensive proves that it continues in accordance with carefully matured plana. Even the Germans are not attempting to hide its importance. The Berlin Tageblatt admits that the Russians number 137 divisions of infantry and thirty-six- of cavalry, totalling 1\740,000 infantry and 162,000 cavalry. The troops are far superior in morale and equipment to these who were defeated 'n 1!)15. It is now plain that General Brusiloff has entirely outmanoeuvred General* liutlmier and Linsiugen. While apparently concentrating for a southern attack they suddenly extended their operations and developed a flanking movement eeveriii" fifty miles from the north of Knlki to the Pripet River. General liiusilnlt steadily pushed the Germans from their line on the Styr to a line on the Slokhttd. They then crossed to the western bank at a spot where the river takes a sudden turn, and the Germans here fought with energy and desperation, but the battle ended in a general flight in order to cross the 'jtokhod and escape .'.nnihiktioK. , The tally of the prisoners and captured material is as yet incomplete, but in the Stokhod region ilone 040 officers and ovr twenty thousand unwounded men, with fifty-five gun and ninetythree Marinis were captured as the result of f lie new offensive. The AustroGerman casualties amount to at least 50,000. | General Brusiloff has now gained positions ensuring further progress, and the Germans have lost the opportunity for a successful opposition to the east of Stokhod, and all chances of tactical manoeuvring. SITUATION SATISFACTORY. RUSSIAN ADVANCE ORDERED. SUCCESSFUL' COMBINED MOVES. Received July 11, 10.30 p.m. London, July 11. General BrusilotV has Pinsk and Borland covering the right flanks, and after crossing the Stokhod will be in a position to threaten the newly constructed defences at Kovel. The situation in the south is equally satisfactory. Since the capture of Buczacz, the lower Strypu and Dniester, the fronts have been very quiet, while General Leeliitsky is overthrowing General l"flanzer's army and advancing to Delatyu railway. General Brusiloff has now ordered General Teherbatcheff to advance. Successful combined moves resulted in surmounting the most difficult section on the Dniester. ENEMY STILL PRESSED. LIVELY FIGHTING ON DNIESTER. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. IMPORTANT HEIGHTS CAPTURED. Received July 11, 5.5 p.m. Petrogr'ad, July 10. A communique states: We are closely pressing the enemy south of Polessi, and continue to cross the .Stokhod ".t various points. A great part of the crossings were, destroyed by the retreating enemy. Lively fights are in progress near the villages of Slddnikl, Starnike, Stariymossor and Novymoasor. < We put the enemy to flight between Kisseline and Louhlimo. There is intense artillery action on both hanks of the Dniester and on the Galician front. We repulsed an enemy offensive south-east of Lake Sventen, and broke an enemy counterattack on the village of Odokhovtßhlna, east of Bara-novltch!, ,

RUSSIAN FLANKING MOVEMENT.

GERMANS CAUGHT IN AN ANGLE. CAVALRY REGIMENT SACRIFICED. Received July 11, 5.35 p.m. London, July 10. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent states that General Briisilotf is steadily pushing forward a flanking movement within four miles of Stokliod. The Gevßians, being caught in a right angle by the flanking operations, were completely defeated, and are hurriedly retreating across the river. A regiment of Hungarian cavalry was sacrificed in an effort to urotect the letrei.', BUKOWINA COMPLETELY OCCUPIED. Petrograd. July 10. The complete occupation of Bukowina is announced. Civil organisation is progressing, and tli? entire region has been provisioned with Russian cereals. RUSSIANS IMPETUOUS DRIVE. ROAD TO KOVEL OPEN. Paris, July 10. M. Naudeau, the Jonral's Petrograd correspondent, says that daring operations in the Chsrtorysk salient culminated in a brilliant victory, placing longeontestrd important positions in the hands of the Russians. The latter are continuing theii impetuous drive tovards Kovel, and occupy a position equidistant from the Stokh'od and Styr valleys across the Chartorysk-Kovel railway. On this positon overlapping the Lutsk salient the Germans bad expected to stem the Russian advance, but they vero caught in the flank and rear and outpointed. The Russians between Sokal and Kolki literlly fell upon the German breach at Lutsk, which is widening hourly. The road to Kovel is open northwards, and the battle continues with a steadily increasing harvest of prisoners. KOVEL UNDER FIRE. Received July 11, 5.5 p.m. Rome, Inly 10, Kovel. is now under Are from Russian heavy guns. ; ~ , i/( MORE GERMAN INVINCIBILITY. Received July 11, 5.5 p.m. London, July 10. A Berlin communique states that the Russian attacks on the Stokhod, ako on Lutsk and elsewhere were all repulsed.