RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. important captures. iPINEK BOMBED. A. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received July 30, 9.5 p.m. London, July 9. A wireless Russian official message states: A successful offensive has been made westward of Stanislau. General Ivorniloff captured on Sunday several villages, 131 officers, 7000 men, and 48 guns, including 12 heavies, and many machine-guns. General Korniloff attacked Psercite, and the enemy's foremost and most important positions westward of Stanis!au. He advanced and captured the villages of Jezujol, Csezov. Javelche, Ryibna, and Stalyeysiec. The cavalry immediately pursued, reaching the Likva river. We evacuated Pindjvin, Khanikin, and Karishireu under Turkish pressure. We bombed the railway station, at Pinsk, causing conflagrations,

CONFERENCE WITH ALLIES. ON BALKAN AFFiAIRS. RUSSIA'S VIEWS AS TO GREECE. Reuter Service. Received July 10, 8.50 p.m. Petrograd, July 9. The Government announces that a special conference of the Allies has been convoked to consider Balkan affairs. The conference is necessary in view of the extreme complexity of the political and strategical situation in the Balkans, the object being to secure a common policy. 'Tho announcement adds that the Government has formally protested againstt the recent steps taken by tho other Allies relative to Greece, and that while not animated by a desire to support Constantine, -whom we disapprove, and whoso persona! policy we continue to completely disapprove, we disapprove the means employed to forcibly substitute one king for another. We maintained in our pourparler with the Allies that tho choice to form a. Government for Greece, as well as an administrative organisation, appertains exclusively to the Greek people. For these reasons the Government refused to allow Russian troops to .participate in the expedition to southern Greece.

DESPERATE ATTACKS REPULSED. TERRIBLE GERMAN LOSSES. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, July 9. A semi-official message states: We heavily repulsed desperate German counter-attacks made with the object of stopping General Brusiloff's enveloping movement upon Brzezany. An intercepted German wireless message admits terrible losses. Three reserve divisions were cut up and many battalions wiped out. The greatest importance is attached to General Brusiloffs advance. RUSSIAN® GAIN GROUND. London, July 9. The Russians are again attacking at Stanialau and have gained ground. THE AUSTRIAN VERSION. Received July 10, fi.3o pjm. Amsterdam, July 9. An Austrian communique states: The enemy attempted a decisive blow with superior forces against til© roftd from Stanislau to Kolostd, but those penetrating our advanced trenches were ejected .by a counter-attack. Strong enemy forces were also repulsed in the Strulbyca valley, near Huta. MUTINOUS SOLDIERS DEALT WITH. Times Service. Received July 10, 9.30 p.m, London, July 9. The Times' Odess:. correspondent states that a body of Russian soldiers who refused to participate in the offensive, entrenched themselves on the outskirts of a forest. The artillery fired shrapnel and a cavalry corps surrounded the mutineers, who laid down their arms. AN INTENSE ARTILLERY DUEL. Reuter Service. Received July 11,12.50 a.m. London, July 10. A telegram from Minsk describes the beginning of military activity in several parts of the front, including an intense artillery duel in the Krevosmorgon region.