IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1916, Page 4

IN THE EAST.

GERMANS REINFORCED. A DESPERATE RESISTANCE. Pctrograd, July 11. A Russian communique says': The enemy ha* received reminforeemenls and "as brought up powerful artillery and b< otV-vug despera*.' resistance in the Stokhod region. Wo. repulsed considerable forces north-west of Kimpolung and after a violent combat the enemy was put to flight. The approximate total of the prisoners taken by General Brnsiloff from June ■) to July 10 was sij2o officers and 200,Ofii) soldiers. Ho ~is „ ra p(,„ re ,i ;ii 2 „ 11I1S ami ,Stji; machine guns. THl'l GERMAN VERSION. Berlin, July 11. A German communique says:— It is quiet from Riga to Pinsk, The Russian announcement of the evacuation of Pinsk is false. Strong forces futilely attacked the. Stokhod line. The enemy were driven back near Hulcwieze by a counter-attack. GERMAN PROPS FAIL. RUSSIAN' HARVEST. Amsterdam. July 11. The Xeuc Freie Presse in Vienna bitterly complains of (he failure of the Civilians, Bulgarians and Turks to sh«w a livelier interest in Ihe Uussian advance into Calicia. which is threatening East Prussia and Constantinople equally with Austria-Hungary. Rome, July 12. The harvest in Russia is ten per cent, superior to that of 1915. THE BATTLE OF THE PRIPET. CLEARJXt: THE WAV TO KOVEL. Received July 12, 8.20 p.m. London, July 12. The Chronicle's Pctrograd correspondent sends a grim picture of the battle, of the Pripcf marshes, which is almost concluded. The Russians are now facing the Stokliod. separating them from the last serious natural barrier, namely, Kovel. AN AUSTRIAN ABSURDITY. Received July 12, 5.25 p.m. London, July 11. An Austrian communique states: Attacks by superior enemy forces at Sokul broke in our entanglements. The enemy vainly endeavored to bring bis fleeing masses to a standstill by turning the fire of his guns and machine-guns upon them. Austin-German forces repulsed the enemy at Hawewicze, on the Stokbod, after bitter fighting. A GERMAN TRICK EXPOSED. Received July 12, 5.25 p.m. London. July 11. The Russians did not claim to have captured Pinsk, so that the German denial yvas a mere trick to discredit the Russian communiques. DEFENCE OF KOVEL GERMANY'S RAW RECRUITS. BULGARIANS DRIVEN TO SLAUGHTER. GHASTLY GERMAN LOSSES. HUNS FIENDISH TRICKS. Received July 12, 5.25 p.m. London, July 11. Mr. Perceval Gibbon says that through trains, running from Brussels to Kovel, arc pouring along the lines as fast as possible, bringing more and more men from Germany's great reservoirs of flesh and blood. The Russian's latest prisoners include men utterly inexperienced in fighting, but who were whirled eastwards, detrained in the wet primeval forest, and tumbled headlong into one of the most desperate battles in V=tory. The latest and most significant reinforcement is General Hindenbiirg, whom prisoners report as being at Kovel with General Linsingen and a galaxy of other generals. The Russians recently captured Bulgarians sent to the East front, who state they were compelled to advance by a German threat that they would be shot; by the machine-guns. 'The Germans suffered ghastly losses at the village of Kiagh. where they attacked repeatedly in dense formation, and were met by a withering fire. The Russian guns destroyed the gas containers, loosing the gas among the Germans, who fell back in piteous disorder, the slopes being carpeted with corpses. The Austrians lack the Germans' vicious efficiency. The Austrians attempted to destroy the roads as they retreated, forcing the Russians to advance over quagmires. The Germans improved on the dangers of the ghastly swamps by concealing sunken cocoons of barbed wire in the quagmires, from which the trapped men were unable to tear themselves. The Germans placed mines in the muddy channels, and even covered miles of ooze with an imitation firm foothold, in the hope that it would prove a man-trap for the Russian pursuers. These tactics proved to be unwise, their results being unimportant, though striking, for the losses e.vasperated the army, which had hitherto been in the habit of taking prisoners. THE ARAB REVOLT. f TURKS POWERLESS TO ACT. Received July 12, 1U.15 p.m. Cairo, July 12. The Journal Mokottam reports that Sayed-id-Pis, a supporter of Shereef at Mecca, has captured the town and fort of Kunfuda. The authorities at Constantinople alarmed at the Arab revolution, ordered an expedition to Hedjadz, but the destruction of the railway prevents the despatch of troops. It is understood that the Arabs from Medina to Dainas--OUB will support Shereef,