THE EASTERN THEATRE.
DESPERATE FIGHTING. GERMAN SUCCESS SOUTH OF WARSAW. PETROGRAD, August 4. An official communique states: — " Our seaplanes drove a German gunboat ashore at Windau, where they found a Zeppelin and two seaplanes, one of which was brought down. " There was desperate fighting on Sunday and Monday east of Ponievesz,; and, hand-to-hand; fighting on the Narew at the mouth of the Skva, where trenches frequently changed hands. Desperate battles still rage on the left bank of the Narew, north-east of Rozano, where^the enemy makes every step at the cost of enormous losses. " By prodigious efforts, and after an extremely sanguinary action on Sunday, the Germans, who crossed the Vistula, captured part of .Mutzccvit;^
forest, and made further considerable progress.--"We repulsed the enemy near Kurow and north of Lublin, and also on both.sides, of the. Trauniki-Vlodova Road, inflicting groat losses."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8209, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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140THE EASTERN THEATRE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8209, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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