RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

I OFFENSIVE PROGRESSING. TESTIMONY TO RUSSIAN FIRE. London, July 10. The Morning Post's Pe-trograd correspondent says that the Russian offensive is steadily progressing. The wholo southwestern front from Pinsk to the Carpathians is now engaged, but tlie northern front regions are inactive, despite the strong protests of the armies to Petrograd urging that the young garrisons stationed there be immediately sent to the front. Czechs taken prisoner on the southwest front immediately petitioned to be permitted to fight for Russia, and, if Buitaible, have been drafted into Czech regiments. Belgian armored cars are participating in the offensive, Amsterdam, July 10. A Berlin message admits that the Russians smashed the German front at Stanislau.

ENEMY LINE BROKEN. HALICZ TURNED, Received July 11, 11.40 p.m. Petrograd, July 11. j The .Anstro-German front between Halicz and the Carpathians has been broken. The Russians in the neighborhood of the Dneister turned Halicz from the south and south-west, and now menace Halicz bridgehead. Between July 2 and 8 General Korniloff took 14,000 prisoners, and fifty-"five guns, whereof twelve are heavy.

OFFENSIVE ON A LARGE SCALE. FRONT OF 140' MILES. Received July 11, 8 p.m. United Service. Patrograd,. July 10. Heavy rains and mud a*e hindering ■Russian operations at Brzezany, but tlio offensive is developing on a large scale. There is strong activity spread along a front of 140 miles in the south-west.

SANGUINARY BATTLE. ENEMY'S COMPLETE ROUT. ENEMY (POSITIONS PENETRATED. Received July 11, 6.10 p.m. London, July 10. A wireless Russian official message states: General Kormoloff continued hi* offensive in the direction of Dolin. There were sanguinary battles on the roads towards Halics, also in the region of the villages of 'Huciska, Pacykov, and Pavelce. Bayonet fighting at Pavelce resulted in the enemy's complete rout We occupied the villages of Victorov, Majdai:, Huciska, and Pacykov, and reached the village of Buknvica. Tho enemy retreated to the river Lomnica. The Russians, by daring attacks, in the two days' offensive penetrated the enemy's positions to a depth of ten t versts.

, THE DEMORALISED ENEMY. 1 VIGOROUSLY FOLLOWED UP. 1 FINE STRATEGICAL WORK BY HUSSIANB.I Received July 12, 1 a.m. ?' ! Beater Service. Petrograd, July -11. General KornilofT's cavalry, with Cossacks. following up General Kirbach's retiring army southwards of Halicz, forced the river Lukovitza, running parallel with the river Lukva. On the_ western bank of the Lukva, which dominates the wooded eastern bank, it is considered UDlikely that the demoralised enemy will be able to concentrate sufficient troops to prevent the Russians passing the river and continuing the advance in the direction of Dovina. The co-operation of the seventh and eleventh armies northwards of Halicz with the eighth southwards has hitherto been like clockwork. The Peteh, in a military article, points out that the success of the eighth army separate General von Bothmer's German army and General Ivinbach's third Austrian army, which were in contact between Halicz and Stanislau. Tho writer anticipates the evacuation of Halicz, which is not a fortress, being only a strong bridgehead protecting Genera! von Bothmer's positions from cast and south-east.

ARTILLERY REINFORCED. BY BRITISH AND FRENCH, Received July 12, 1 a.tn. Amsterdam, July 11. The Vossiche Zeitung's correspondent in Calicia, describing the latest fighting, says the Russian heavy artillery lias been tremendously reinforced toy (British and French artillery and artillerymen. One heavy gun near JBrzezany was of forty-five centimetres calibre.