IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. RUSSIANS WADE A RIVER. Petrograd, August 1. A Russian communique states: Wo forced the enemy back at the bend of the Stokhod and reached a point westward of the Velieki-Kuchary line. We repulsed counter-attacks at Hovel and Lutsk. We attacked in the region of Tchekhuv and Dubenka, south-eastward 0'" Monasteries. We crossed the marshy river Kuropetz waist deep, as the bridge's were destroyed, to reach the west bank, where we organised and took prisoner over ICDO Austro-Gc-rmans In Asia Minor the pursuit in the direction of Mosul continues, AUSTRO-GERMAN PREDICAMENT. EVACUATION COMPULSORY. Petrograd. August 1. An American correspondent says that the opinion in Petrograd is that/despite the lustra-Germans' stubborn resistance. they will be unable much longer successfully to oppose all three Russian lines of advance—upon Kovel, Vladimir. Wolynski, and Lemberg—and will probably' be compelled to sacrifice one in order to stiffen the others. LEMBERG AND KOVEL MAY BE ABANDONED, DESTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS. London. August 1. A wireless message has been received ' stating that the Germans Jjave evacuated Vladimir Volynsky, and are evacuating Kovel. Amsterdam, August I. The Austrians are blowing up the bridges over the Bug in order to delay tiie Piusian advance on Lemberg. Railway traliie between Lemberg and Tarnopol is interrupted, and the engines and rolling-stock have been transferred to Cracow. The population is evacuating the suburbs of Przemysl and Jaroshiv. Fugitives from Galicia are flocking to Cracow. The Deutsche Tages Zeituag states that everything is ready foi the possible evacuation of Lemberg, but there is no immediate apprehension. AUSTRIANS DEMORALISED. TOWNS NOT TO BE DEFENDED. London, August I. Proofs of the Austro-Gernian rout are multiplying. The Daily Telegraph's Home correspondent telegraphs that the Austro-German ptaffs have resolved not to defend any towns, in order to avoid b:ing surrounded by the Russians. The decision includes Kovel, Stanislau, and Lemberg. The Russians have already reached positions south-west and north of Kovel. As evidence of the Austrian demoralisation, after the battle on the 28th, the Austrians, in a panic, abandoned fifty kilometres of their front vest of Lutsk, but later, seeing that the Russians pau-od in their advance, the Austrians retraced their steps and re©ceirpied ten kilometresoof. f the abandoned territory. BOTHMER IN A VICE. LTIS COMMUNICATIONS THREATENED. Received AugU9t "-, 7.20 p.ni. J . Petrograd. August 1. >V.v the Russians have crossed the . K eroth «.n& captured Eaezacz they have General von Eothmcr in a vice, while General Lcchitsky's Cossacks are threatening iii's communications with Hungary. BOTHMER ENVELOPED. Pomp. August 1. It h reported that General Bothaier's irmy is pra4scally enveloped owing to *'a? Cos ackß, after the capture of Brccly,