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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2556, 2 September 1915, Page 5

LATE NEWS

RUSSIANS'iTTACKiNG OFFICIAL REPORT GERMANS SEVERELY HANDLED By-Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrisM (Rec. September 2, 1.20 a.m.) , 'Petrograd, "September 1. A Russian, official communique states : "We have held up the enemy's attempted offensive on. the Eckauneunut ._ railway and repulsed an attempt to cross • the Dwina north-west of Friedrichstadt. Tho Germans who crossed were dislodged from the right bank. "The Germans supported by a hurricane of artillery fire, mado several despkate attempts against the bridge-head near Friedrichstadt, but wero repulsed, lqsing greatly. "AVe have successfully assumed the: offensive " on" the right bank of tho Vilica, and between the Vilica and .tho Niemeii continue to hold the enemy's. offensive'in check. '. V • "The Austro-Germans launched particularly determined attacks northwards ; of Zlockos. EightVof the enemy's attacks were repulsed in the Prorzanz-Zborow-Stripa front, between tho railways leadine to Tarnopol and Czortkow, our troops inflicting enormous losses in some districts. compelling.the enerpy to retire precipitately.; • "In the course of our counter-attacks we scored a big success on a wide front, capturing thirty guns, twenty-four ma-chine-guns, and three thousand prisoners, one-half of whom were Germans."- ,