THE GERMANS EVACUATE PINSK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1916, Page 5

THE GERMANS EVACUATE PINSK.

MILES OF ENEMY TRENCHES IN RUSSIAN HANDS. PANIC-STRICKEN FLIGHT ÜBBEB CEASELESS SHELLING. GERMAN RESERVES HUBRYIWG TO FILL IHE GAPS. (Beceh-ed 12.30 pjn.) "" " ! " " -: " ;Tr '" ' I-ONDON, January 18. The -Times" correspondent at Petrograd states that there has been unabated fighting on the Strypa and in the vicinity of Czernowitz. There » a heavy concentration of German troops taking place in Galicia and Bokowma. Unofficial reports from South Polieeie state that a large sector has been cleared of Austrian and Germans, and that eeveral miles of enemy trenches are in Russian hands. The Austro-Gennan front has been pierced in many sectors, and the advance continues. The German losses from casualties and sickness are enormous. * Pinsk has been evacuated by the enemy, who fled to Charto panic-stricken under the ceaseless shelling, the troops discarding their rifles, cartridges, and upper garments in their flight. ■ The enemy is now hurriedly bringing up heavy guns and reserves from Komaroff. T , , . . , . ;„ Volhvnia, on the Styr, near the GaHcian Lutzk is an important fortress m ™"g™»> X ■ by the amy frontier, and 75 miles north-eaet of it towards the end of his great °f en f l TV^ l^ ptnrin g thousands of prisoners. m tho autumn General lvanoff J^ o "*^"^ and retired a He was shortly afterwards driven out again Dy mc Bhort distance'east of the river. marß hes, about a hundred Pinsk, lie* an tie other nde tfj™«*£f d deß^rate fighting on Biles to the north ofLrf*. «" Germans to several eeveral occasions, and has been m toe _*£r£ be i n g on the great raSwsy 1 months. It is aa important Btr *? eß the-nortn. trunk line to YBufc paining «ast and"weefc and neaT-a-jmiceOTnuvu v"c »"_. •>_