RUSSIA'S OFFICIAL MESSAGES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1915, Page 7

RUSSIA'S OFFICIAL MESSAGES

SUCCESSES ON LEFT BANK OF SAN ENEMY IN DISORDERLY RETREAT PETROGRAD, sth June. Official.— We gained further successes on the left bank of the San, particularly westward of Rudnik, and continued to drive dack the enemy in disorderly retreat. The enemy on the right bank of the San continues to attack in the Wisznia Valley and the fighting continues. We inflicted enormous losses on the /enemy at Krukienice be,tween Przemysl and the Dniester, driving him back. Our troops between the rivers Tysmienica and Stryj are hampering the enemy's progress. He fell back to the Dniester bridgehead. The enemy on Wednesday night attempted to rush our entrenchments,, but was repulsed, abandoning _ heaps of bodies outside the, trenches. We counter-at-tacked at night, taking seven hundred prisoners,' including several officers, and capturing some machine guns. ffi . , „„ . PETPiOGRAD, 6th June. Official. — I he Russian offensive on the lower San developed successfully. We forced the Fourteenth Austrian Army Corps to fall back on fortified positions between the Leng and the San. (The Leng, or Leg, is about ten miles west of the San, near the Russian frontier). Fighting for these positions continued <6n Friday, when w«; took one thousand prisoners. Large German reserves on the left bank of the Leng made three furious attacks. All were repulsed. The enemy on the third captured the village of Staryawa, on the left bank of Wisznia. Our counter-attack dislodged the enemy from the village, but he maintains himself on the neighbouring heights. The 1 enemy continued his attacks on thp third against our bridgeheads on the Dniester, between the Tysmienica and the Stryj -Mikolaieff railway. The attacks were repulsed with bayonets and lnnd-grensdee. The fighting "continues. ASPHYXIATING BOMBS FROM AIRSHIPS . „ . . . PETROGRAD, 6th June. German airships dropped asphyxiating gas bombs on the Bzura-Rawka frontier.