IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIA'S PROGRESS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 8 January 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIA'S PROGRESS

DRIVING A WEDGE INTO GERMAN FORCES. DESPEKATE BATTLE ' ALONG A FRONT OF 200 MILES. .iilmts a.aa Sydney Son Servlcei.) ._ . .';... ';. :'. ,; . ; . • ; ' LONDON, January 7; I Tho situation. on. the. South Russian front.- to bc.<jf tte utmost military, and political' importance.'.' The 'fall of Czernowiitz.'the^capital of Bukewina, has impressed the whol&«f the. Balkans, particularly Rumania, and has deprived'the enemy of ah imporVant tactical railway. ..'.. ' • .." .. .',, , , - The Russians .are; menacing,this.railway ;iine as far as Kolomea. forty miles west of Czernpwiti, and are rapidly 1 filloiTing up their success by driving a wedge into'the German forces. .-. '. S 1 ■ ' \." '■{■"' ■■ • ; There . are desperate • battles alorig : a" front .of 200 'miles. north from Czernowitz. The German general yon Mackens'en- is unable- to think of Salonika while fighting, desperately,'to resist fth|e' Russians. .// ..:,,-.' .; '\ .:. Messages frotn Bucharest state that' Russia' js.cplossally pouring, in" troops. The Ciar is in personal command of -"the; Russian forces.l, .Tie' Austrians." arid Germans are'flinging Jn reinforcements ,and withdrawing troops, from the Balkans and frciro!the Itajian'front.'':' :"' ■ ■/■■'.. . : ' ■.'.■' An official Russian communique says' that the Russians occupied"the cemetery at Czartorysk',. a town on the Styr. south of Pinsk,' driving enemy and making further progress: •,,,•. - ~ ,• ..\. . ; - ■ The Russians established themselves.in positions in the-sectors Captured, near Czernowilz. ~* ■■■~,'_'. '._'.".'." ' ,:-■•'•• '• -" :.•• ''- " '" ■'- . •■ '• ■ . ■■ ••'■■■ .-.■■ ■-■-.-.;»