THREATENED ATTACK ON WARSAW. .
(Received June 28, 9.35 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, 27th June.. In connection with the threatened attack on Warsaw, several trains of heavy gulis have left Essen for the Bzura. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED. PETROGRAD, 27th June. The enemy's attempted offensive at Ormulfff cost him many killed and prisoners. The enefny assumed the offensive near Przasnysz. A desperate battle developed into bayonet fighting, which continues. Our crossfire annihilated an enemy battalion which imprudently approached tho entanglements north-west-ward of Zavikhost, on the left bank of the Viatula. During our counter-attacks, supported by an armoured train iv the direction of Zolkieft and Lemberg, we captured thirty officers, two thousand men, and thirteen machine-guns. We continued to repulse desperate attacks by great Austro-German torces between IvhodoToff and Halicz. There we took 1000 prisoners, \V 0 Regressed ou Ui© Daicfttar-Pruth front.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 7
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