THE RUSSIAN VICTORY IN EASTERN GALICIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN VICTORY IN EASTERN GALICIA

DESPERATE BATTLE ON THE DEFEAT OP GENERAL PFLANZEB ■By Telegraph—Prew Auaciatlen-Oopyright Details of the defeat of General von Pflanzer 1 • ' hardest fighting took place on the Bug, near Baelvkamen ion mil/ 0 ™ 6 + of Busk. The enemy on Sunday mom ng eLyed to Sm ? high, but all .his 1 attacks were repulsed. " " orra a hel 6ht 366 i metres assaults,/whlcliwe™^ Mealiwhile General Pflanzer attempted to force thn raisi.m ti, ' c-t : Ho-was driven back, enabling tho RUssianVon \L ( l^ of J he § fcr) T aand to surround a portion of the'Aiistro-Gcrman ftrec's whem 5 ?^ 6 tm> nopolrailway crosses the St™, capturing guns and many pnWs ' ' The enemy on Sunday night made nine attempts to eroJ Bnrkanoff,; ten miles, south of , tho railway. All were reniilLl )pa Bear Attacks- lyere made south of the Dniester, but w(*e alsowithout result. SUCCESS OF TACTICAL IMPORTANCE. Military critics attach-importance to : the Russian'suMcs'sef' 3^ mI, w r t' Galicia; The-Germans' attack on the Upper Bug and Stryoa Rive™ ■>; i J pushing the Russians away'from' the Rumanian frontiers Five r? a anny corps, under Genera), fflanzer,'suffered defeat 0 INTENSE FIGHTING ALONG THE FRONT RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. . : • (Rec. September 2, 10.20 p.m.) 'A Russian official communique states: "Wo cap^ure^^o^ii-'^mfr^ right bank of tlio Vilica. ; ■ 1 '• 10UI guns 011 the . "Tho enemy has occupied Orany. Desperate fighting continues A WR.ment, surrounded by the enoiny, broke through, annihilating a'Gennau bat- . /'We repulsed a series of vigorous and repeated German attacks of Groduo. ncounaia , "We, aro holding the ,enemy in tlie '-Luzt region and ;in, Galicia whilo withdrawing'to a less extended front, indicting heavy losses. ' , "Tho total number of Austro-Germaiis who have been taken seven .thousand, with one hundred officers. V s:'\ „ "The enemy's most stubborn attaoks in the Radzickhoff. Zolotcheff Zhnrmv Bourkauow districts, have everywhere been repulsed with enormous losses ' "Tho fighting in the district? of Bourkanow and Boutehatch has been r P markably fierce. ' Wo repulsed numerous attacks by our fire and tho bttvonj" Tho enemy at somo points was unable to stand tho hand-to-hand fHitinir and retreated to their trenches, leaving prisoners in our/hands." '• ° '■ • CHANGES IN RUSSIAN COMMANDS GRAND DUKE'S, CHIEF OF STAFF SENT TO THE CAUCASUS. CRec. September 2, 10.20 p.m.) , „ , . , . jPetrograd, September 2. General Ruszky has beer, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the armies for the defenceof the northern, regian. General Yanushkovitch, Chief of the Grind Duke Nicholas's General Staff, has been appointed Assistant Viceroy in 'the Caucasus. General Alesief will succeed General Yanushkovitoh. . . General Aloxieff, who now succeeds General Yanushkovitch as Chief of tho Russian General Staff, has held the position of Chief of Staff to General Ivanoff the Commander of the Russian Eastern Armies. Conjointly with General Ivanoff, hewas-responsible for the successful conduct of the campaign in Galicia last year. GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. ' . ' Amsterdam, Soptemher 1. A German offioial communique states: "Field-Marshal von Hindcnburg's troons are-before the outer line of forts at Grodno. "Prince Leopold has crossed tho Uotier Nsiw and foi'csd the eticmy across the.marshes north of Grozana.,

"General von Mackeiiseii continues to defeat the Russians whenever they ''make a stand. General von Bothmer, in face of a stubborn resistance, stormed the heights on tlio bank of the Stvypa, overcoming the temporary delay enforced by the enemy. . . " "During August ive took prisoner oh the East front 2000 officers and 269,83!) riien, 2300 cannon, and 560 machine-guns, including 20,000 prisoners and 827 cannon at Kovno, fifteen generals, 90,000 tnen, and 1200 cannon at Novo-Geor-gicysk. Since May 2 tho Germans and Austrians have taken prisoner over a million men." • . GERMAN COMMENT ON THE FIC4HTING. (Rec. September 2, 9.50 p.m.) ~ , „ „ jn Amsterdam, September 2. The Frankfurter Zeifcnng" says that, one hundred thousand British troops participated ill' tile attacks ill Ga-Ihpoli last Saturday and Sunday. ■ losing extremely heavily Tlio "Zejtung" estimates that si'iico Aurnst 6 the British losses exceed fifty thousand, including six hundred officers. One cavalry division has been wiped out. AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. ,i . , , ..... , Amsterdam, September 2. An Austrian communique states: "Wo have captured Lutzk and Gborow." ENEMY'S STRENGTH ON THE DIFFERENT SECTORS. • n i iou i n • i- i', Petrograd, September i. Colonel Shumsky, a Russian critic, 'calculates that a million of tho eiieiny are operating in the Brest-Litovsk, Minsk, and Bielostok regiSn, 300.000 at Riga, and 600,000 in Gahcia. TACTICS OP THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE v ' ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.). (Rec. September' 2, 8 p.m.) (crt,- w .I) j , iti l ' , . London, September 1. -Ibe Times' correspondent at Petrograd -writes: "Fluctuating day by day, toe enemy s northern movements present reverted in the direction of Riga, his attention being concentrated upon Friedrichstadt, a vital point situated not far from the railway which opens tho path to both Riga and Dvillsk. Ihe. seizure of the Mitau-Kreuzburg section of railway, forty-five miles Ion", enables the Germans to bring up reinforcements from Mitau On the other hand, m the Dvinsk region, wo have assumed the offensive ihe enemy s crossing of the Niemeli.at Olita (between Kovno and Grodno) and his advance on Orany disclose an intention to isolate bur Vilna and Grodno groups, hindering our retreat from the Niomen line. '■ It;is hoped-that the enemy, who-is operatiiig in tho region of Bialystok hntl Bielsk, will not succeed m intercepting our retreat from Grodno. to the trunk lino in the vicinity of Mosty and Lida. The Russian rearguards aro ottering a desperate resistance on tlio twenty-mile front between. Bieloviesh and the Supraso woods, in order to afford time for tho regrouping of our forces in tlio rear/ • .. • "Serious importance is attributed to the events on tW Vladimir-Volynsky. Luzk front, wliero the enemy is operating in great force. Apparently von Mackensen s army has been transferred there to undertake an important oftensive against tlio trunk lirie from Kovel to 'Kazatin and Kieff."