RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA.

' RUSSIANS CAIN GROUND. ENERGETIC ISNEMI! ATTACKS, DOBRUDJA OPERATION'S A TMIA®, THE MOST URGENT TASKo. ! Received Oct. 15, M.5 p.m. London, Oct. If, ' The Observer's correspondent at Petr<*» . grad states that the Austro-Germans i are still energetically counter-attacking, and vainly attempting to wrest General lirusiJoff'a initiative. The fortifications ' i at Halicz still attract and repel the , Russian onslaught. ' Meanwhile the Russians have gained and retained! ground, particularly near Brzezany attdl • Svinuky, manifesting the strong arid toi sistent purpose of operating in critical directions on the southern front. Prog* rcss, however, is' necessarily slow. German absolutism gradually har« dened up the organisation froir Berlin ! to Bagdad for a supreme struggle ill opposition to General Brusiloff, audi trebled his vigoi. Moreover, his aima , must be partly determined by the events on the Roumanian front. The danger on th< Dobrudja 'has ittOt mentari'ly retarded the Russian advance! in Galicia, but when the Hulgara are ! thrown back the advance will 'be re* sumed in strength. Phir. will 'be oppoM tune for the Roumanians when facing strong enemy forces in southern Transylvania. Operations in Galicia will henceforth' 1 become an integial part of the Allies'' ; Balkan campaign. The Russians arej do? sly assisting the Allien. The most urgent ,iask in the ea&tj : is aiming at the defeat of the Bulgarians, to cut the enemy lines of communication, and especially to stop the Balkan express. The situation from that ptUjfh point is hopeful. Whether I-emberg is taken soon or not, the Jlussians are 'hastening the das when Generals Avereacu and Sartftfl wiU meet at 'Sofia. ' .