RUSSIAN FRONT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 7

RUSSIAN FRONT

OFFICIAL NEWS. PETROGRAD, 4th October. A communique reports : — There was I desperate fighting at Stakhowtsy, at the | southern end of Lake Naroch. The Russians captured eight German howitzers and six light guns. The Germans, supported by a hurricane of axtillery., drove out the Russians from Stakhowtey. The Russians made a fresh attack and Tecaptured a farm. Two German attacks south of Smorgon were repulsed. Five Hungarian regiments were entrenched on the hills near Potchaeff. The Russians cleverly outflanked them, occupied hills, and opened a terrible fire on the fleeing enemy, compelling nine thoußand to surrender., BAVARIAN GENERALS RETIRED CHUM JSD lIDKIT SUN SIRTICSS.) (Received October 5, 8 ajn.) LONDON, 4th October. Lausanne reports that 'three Bavarian ■ Generak have been retired as the result of the defeat* on the East front. (TtSSM 1II0CHTI0H,) NEW RUSSIAN ARMY. ROME, 4th- October. Th« Petrograd correspondent oi the Corriere Delia Sera says that Russia has a new army of one and a-half million men ready in the Petrograd district. MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES. PETROGRAD, 4th October. Official: The enemy is continuing hk atrocities. A Russian officer and two cavalrymen, who were taken prisoner, were found at a distance .from the battlefield with their eyes gouged out, and their teeth broken, and suffering from other wounds.