THE RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT

OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE MARKED EFFECT UPON BALKAN SITUATION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) . (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 6th January. The situation on the South Eussian front is of the utmost military and political importance. p . . . . The fall of Czernowitcz, the capital of the Bukowina province, has impressed the whole of the Balkans, but particularly Rumania. It has deprived the enemy of an important strategical railway; and is menacing the line to Kolomea. . ..... The. Bussians are rapidly following up their success,' and driving in a wedge. Desperate battles are being fought on two hundred miles of front! General Mackensen is unable to think of Salonika whilst fighting desperately to' resist- Eussia. ' Bucharest states that Eussia is pouring in troops on a colossal scale.-The Tsar is personally in command. The Austro-Germans are flinging in reinforcements, withdrawing troops |rom the Balkans and Italy. . (Press Association.) FURTHER PROGRESS REPORTED. PETROGEAD, 7th January. - 'A Eussian- communique says :We occupied the cemetery at Chartorysk, driving back the enemy and making further progress, also establishing a, position in the sectors captured near Czernowitcz. GERMANS USE DUM-DUM BULLETS. LONDON, 7th January, 4.20 a.m. • The High Commissioner reports:— N • In the Biga district fighting continues. The enemy is using dumdum bullets to stop the, Russians. We took the cemetery at Chartorysk.. The enemy's attempts at the offensive at-Bojan were repulsed.