AUSTRIANS ARE FIGHTING BETTER

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIANS ARE FIGHTING BETTER

..'.. .'. (Press Association.)

EXTENT OF THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE PETROGRAD, 16th June. The Russians continue close on the track of the retreating Aiistria-ns, and are developing successful tactics in piercing and outflanking considerable sections of the Austrian front. The Austrians are still losing ground, but are fighting better. Th-3 suddenness of the Russian blow paralysed them, but they have now recovered, and are defending strong, positions which were prepared during the win.tei\ Generals Brusiloff and Letchitsky have already penetrated Volhynia to a depth of forty miles on a breadth of over sixty-five miles, and have also penetrated southward of the Dniester to a depth of over thirty miles and a breadth of thirty-three miles. - ■ GZ£RMOW«TZ SURROUNDED ON THREE SIDES. (Received June 17, 8.20 a.m.) ; LONDON, 16th June. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Petrograd states that General Letchitsky's troops have surrounded Czemowitz on three sides. The tardiness of the enemy in evacuating the town is due to a desire to remove important stores. , The Russian advance in the Tamopol district is not being pressed at present, because a development of the successes northward and southward will conipel a withdraw il from Tarnopol. Acceptance of battle is more or less open. EVACUATION OF THE TOWN REPORTED. (Received June 17, 9.30 a.m.)

ATHENS, 16th June. Bucharest reports that Czemowitz has been evacuated.