RUSSIAN PROGRESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13636, 17 March 1915, Page 3

RUSSIAN PROGRESS.

BOMBARDMENT OF PRZEMYSL.

, PETROGRAD, March 16. Official: We have progressed on the whole of the Przasnysz front from the Mlawa railway to the Oriiec river, and on the left bank of the latter, fighting all the way. German counter-attacks were everywhere repulsed. , Our guns at Osowiec wrecked several of the enemy's siege batteries of heavy calibre.

Germans m the neighborhood of Sieradz, m South-west Poland, have commenced to build a strategic railway, using the forced labor of thousands of villagers. The capture of Malkowice enabled the Russians to approach close to the outworks of Przemysl, and the bombardment has begun. The Russian and German lines m the Przasnysz region are e/> close that large masses of troops are unable 4 to move freely. An Austrian communique says: "We repulsed the Russians m the Opor Valley, taking thousands of prisoners. We drove back the Russians^ north of the Uszok Pass along the entire front. " : PARIS, March 16. The Journal states that there is every indication of the concentration of eight German Army Corps m the Przasnysz region. The Germans dragged heavy gun s to position at Osowiecz, and unsuccessfully endeavored to disperse a mobile force before the fortress.

The winter losses on both sides ale terrible.

The High Commissioner cables: — LONDON, March 16, 4.30 p.m. Petrograd reports that m Northern Poland on the whole front m the region of Przasnysz from the Mlawa railway Uo Ordec^ river, and on the left bank, the Russians have progressed, fighting all the way. German counter attacks were everywhere repulsed. Our guns at Osowiecz put out of action the enemy's heavy siege batteries. In the Carpathians, Austrian attacks directed on Baligrod and German attacks near Kosziowa were repulsed. In East Galicia the enemy was thrown back m the region north of Obertyn.