ENEMY REPORTS

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

ENEMY REPORTS

ATTACKS NEAR CZERNOWITZ REPULSED

AMSTERDAM, 16th June. An- Austrian official communique states : We repulsed the Russian attacks north of Czemowitz, and frustrated their attempts to cross the Pruth.

There was extremely bitter fighting at Wisniowczyk, north of Buczacz. The enemy is employing new -divisions, and attempting to .force the crossing of the Stochod River, in the Styr sector. . ■ x

HSGH COTVISVIISSIONER'S REPORT.

The- High Commissioner reports : — . . LONDON, 16th June, 12.45 a.m. An official message from Potrograd states : On the Dwina front, southwest of Lake Narotch, the enemy's artillery was active, and carried ont a strong bombardment in many places. The enemy subsequent attempts to leave the trenches were repulsed everywhere.

In the Baranoviticlii region we took some trenches, but retreated to our former position.

General BrusilofFs troops continued to advance yesterday. On. several sections of the front we again captured prisoners and military supplies. The onemy in places counter-attacked.

Supplementary reports give more precise calculations of. the captures, as follows :—Ono General, three regimental commanders, 2467 officers, five doctors, 150..000 men, 165 guns, 266 machine guns, and 131 bomb-throwers.

(Press Association.) JAPANESE GUNS AMD SHELLS. (Received June 17, 8.20 a.m.)

x . . HOME.. 1f!."7 Juno. The newspapers state from a Russian source that tho effectiveness of the Russian artillery in tho present offensive is due to the -ase, of great Japanese guns and Japanese shells, charged with, a new explosive, the deatruetiveness of which surpasses .ill expectations.

AUSTRIAN PUBLIC WITHOUT MEWS. (Pi-eceived June 17, 9.30 a.m.)

PAJR.IS, 16th June. Newspapers in Vienna aro forbidden to publish the Russian couimuniquesVit Tho public is without news, except that contained in the Austrian communiques, which affirm tlls-t tho Austro-Hungarian losses are small and the Russian overwhelming and increasing. The influx of refugees from Lemberg is interpreted as showing., that the ssSfli»l statements are mendacious.