BAYONET FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONT
FIERCE STRUGGLE IN GALICIA FRUITLESS COUNTER-ATTACKS BY THE TURKS London, January 29. Wireless, per Admiralty Press. —A Russian official message states: "Wβ attacked with the bayonet south-west of Potulovy, southward of Brzestany (in Galicia), taking the enemy's first line. Wo repelled raging Turkish counterattacks. We exploded six Turkish miuo galleries, demolished the trenches, and then withdrew. Tlio Turks twice attacked, but wero driven back. We took 2030 prisoners ou Saturday in the battlo north-west of Jakobeni (in Southern B'ukowiua)."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. London, January 29. !i German official communique asserts: "The Turks repulsed strong Russian attacks on the Zlota. Lipa." , THE ADVANCE IN MESOPOTAMIA RESULTS OF THE BLOW REVIEWED (Rcc. January 30, 6 p.m.)' London, .January 30. 'An official dispatch' from the British front in Mesopotamia states': "Wβ now hold the Turkish first and second lines south-west of Kut-el-Aniara, on n, front of 4300 yards, and the third and fourth lines on a frontage or six hundred yards. Nine hundred and fifty Turkish dead have been counted, and there arc more yet to be counted. ,Wetook 127 prisoners."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2991, 31 January 1917, Page 5
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