DESPERATE AND FRUITLESS COUNTERATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 5

DESPERATE AND FRUITLESS COUNTERATTACKS

GERMANS' PLIGHT IN SUCCESS OF THE RUSSIAN BLOW By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrljM Petrograd, January 11. A communique states: The enemy in Galicia-, east of Czernowitz, suffered such enormous losses as the result of o rapid and fierce blow, and is so disorganised by desperate and fruitless co nter-attacks, that he is unable to hinder our consolidating the captured posi-ons. SLOWLY-MOVING AND IRRESISTIBLE. Paris, January 11. M. Naudeau, tho official French col Bpondent with the _ Russian forces, writing from Petrograd, says that t'he great Russian offensive is progressing •lowly but-surely, some two "miles a. dayonafront of 350 kilometres (220 miles). She intensity of the German counter-atfock is exhausting itself oil the numerous entrenchments constructed by the dvaiicing Russians. The enemy's attempts to threaten the Russian left flanks and make a fc'irust between the Russian positions and Rumanian territory have failed. A GERMAN WARNING TO THE GERMANS. Amsterdam, January 11. The "Kolnische Zeitung" says that the slackening of the struggle in Galicia does not mean that the Russian offensive has ended, but only that the enemy is taking breath. Great reinforcements are being brought up. The ussians are using great quantities of Japanese ammunition, and the greater part of the infantry in Galicia is arme with Japanese rifles. MORE CZECH REGIMENTS SURRENDER. ("Times" and Sydn oy "Sun" Services.) London, January 11. The Vienna "Tageblatt" states:—Two more Czech regiments surrendered to the Russians without fighting.