IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

FURIOUS FIGHTING ON THE STOKHOD. GERMAN DESPERATION. CEASELESS ATTACKS REPELLED. RUSSIANS GOADED TO VENGEANCE. Received August 3, 10.5 p.m. Fetrograd, August 3. Furious fighting continues along the whole of the Stokhod front. The Germans, driven to desperation, are launching counter-attacks without cessation. They poured in fresh division* 011 Monday and Tuesday, but the Russian cannonading mowed them down with huge losses. The cannonading continues day and night. The bitterness ot the struggle has increased. owing to the persistence of enemy aviators in bombing hospitals and dressing stations. ADVANCE ON KOVEL. FLANK ATTACKS EXPECTED. STANISLAU THREATENED. BOTHMER'S PREDICAMENT WORSE. I ' Renter Service. Received August 3, 10.55 p.m. Petrograd, August 3. The Russians have advanced ten miles towards Kovel since they crossed the Stokhod bend. < Experts are confident that General Hess will deal effectually with German Hunk attacks north of Kovel, 011 the Sary railway. Fighting in this region covers a five miles front, eight miles north of the railway, but the marshy country between, the Stokhod and Turn does not permit of rapid evolutions of masses' of troop-. Scarcity of roads also prevents the extensive employment of German artillery. The Russian c'ossing of Keropetz river in southern Galicia threatens Stanislau and ITalicz, besides the further turning of General Bothmer's forces from the south, while General Sakharofl's advance from south-west of Brodv has increased General Bothmer's predicament from the north.

AUSTRO-GERMAN COMMAND. HIXDEXEURG TAKES CHARGE. Reuter Service. Received August 4, 1-2.45 a.m. Amsterdam, August 3. It is officially announced in Berlin and Vienna that the command of tile armies or the Eastern front has been rearranged. in view of the Russian offensive, and that to assist the Kaiser, who is at present on the Eastern front, General Hindenburg has been placed in command of the Austro-German allied armies, which have been combined for uniform employment. FOOD FOR POLAND, London, August 2. A Berlin communique says: We completely repulsed the Russians at Pinsk. Washington, August 2. Germany has declined the President's request to allow food contributed from America into Poland. Germany claim* that relief is unnecessary.