RUSSIAN ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 88, 12 October 1915, Page 7

RUSSIAN ADVANCE

ENEMY'S LINES PIERCED GERMANS' COSTLY ATTACK AT LOOS THOUSANDS OP DEAD ON ALLIES' FRONT GERMAN PRESS CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA The German counter-attack at Loos proved disastrous, between seven and eight thousand dead being the penalty. In the Champagne, progress N has been made, and there has been an intense bombardment from both sides in the Argonne. German reinforcements for the west include naval men from Kiel and Heligoland. The Russian troops are reported to have penetrated the enemy's line in South Russia, and also the Austrian firstline trenches on the Bessarabian front. "~- THE ATTACK AT LOOS BETWEEN SEVEN AND EIGHT THOUSAND GERMAN DEAD (By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright.) (Received October 12, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, 11th October. A communique states : The latest information confirms the fact that the violent German counter-attack against the Anglo-French front during the past few days at Loos and northward was costly. Four divisions made the principal assault, and were completely repulsed and dispersed. The enemy left on the front of the Allied line between seven and. eight thousand dea<J. THE CHAMPAGNE STRUGGLE GERMAN REGIMENT ANNIHILATED PARIS, 11th October. A French eye-witness, describing the fighting in the Champagne on 7th October, says : "The German battalion at the Navarin Farm belonged to the 10th Army Corps from the eastern front. It suffered severely from our artillery. ' *'The enemy was prevented from removing his wounded. He was cut off from the rear and exposed to squalls of shells until only five hundred men remained. These surrendered. They had been without food or water for four days. "The Germans southward af Tahure held the slope of a "toothbrush" wood. Our guns mowed down the trees. Then the Bretons and Vendians jumped into the trenches, which they found choked with corpses. "Prisoners state that our artillery fire caused a panic, and part of the garrison at Tahure deserted." OFFICIAL NEWS. PARIS, 11th October. A communique states : We again progressed north-east of Tahure, and a brilliant assault made us masters of a new trench south-east of the village. There was an intense bombardment on both sides in the Argonne, in the sector Courtes-Chaussees and La Fille Morte, also between the Meuse and the Moselle, noith of Flirey. We brought down a German aeroplane in our lines south of Pont-a-Mousson. Both aviators were killed. Our air squadron dropped 100 bombs on stations behind the Champagne front, and on the enemy's troops. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS INCLUDE NAVY MEN. COPENHAGEN, 11th October. Large numbers of German troops are proceeding to the West front, including many naval men from Kiel and Heligoland. INSPIRED NEWS GERMAN ARTICLES FOR AMERICANS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received October 12, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 11th October. The Times correspondent at Washington says that while the censor accounts for the absence of decent news Berlin has dispatched inspired articles full of ' flashy, plausible optimism. Admirable ammunition i& thus being given the German efforts to discount the German reverses in France and Russia, and hamper the public sale of the loan. The failure of the loan is unthinkable, but unless there is care, the effect of the recent success on neutral opinion will be obliterated, especially since most stirring accounts of the fighting still come from German sources. (Press Association.) RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN GENERAL ADVANCE ON SOUTHERN FRONT LONDON, 11th October. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent with the Russian south-western headquarters states that the Russians opened a strong simultaneous attack on Thursday night, and advanced from three to three and a-half miles on the front from the river Styr to Garaimovka, every where capturing the first and second positions of the enemy. Despite the resistance of large Austro-German forces, the Russians pierced the front Karpelovka-Mochanitza-Nosovitch. AUSTRIAN FIRST LINE DESTROYED ON BESSARABIAN FRONTIER. • ZURICH, 11th October. The Lausanne Gazette states that the Russians, after ten hours' incessant bombardment, destroyed the Austrian first line trenches on the Bessarabian front. OFFICIAL REPORTS. PETROGRAD, 11th October. A communique states : There was an extremely desperate all-day fight at - Prochiline and Garbunowka. The latter was taken and retaken several times, but we finally abandoned the town. Our scouts northward of Likhovitchi made a night reconnaissance and penetrated the enemy's trenches. They bayoneted two hundred, and took prisoner 456. , The enemy near Czartorysk crossed to the right bank of the Styr. The enemy's counter-attack southeastwardof Malacheff was repulsed. Our cavalry routed the enemy eastward of Bucozacz, in Bukowina. The High Commissioner states :—: — LONDON, 11th October, 5.30 a.m. Petrograd reports that the Nitzgal railway station was bombed by a German aeroplane. In the region north of lihovitcha, our infantry pierced the enemy's trenches, bayonetting 200 and capturing 453 men and three officers. AMSTERDAM, 11th October. An Austrian communique states :—: — The Russians continued fruitless attacks in East Galicia. Some regiments lost half their effectives in the last few days. The enemy was also repulsed on the Strypa front.