RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 74, 25 September 1916, Page 7

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

FIERCE STRUGGLE AT HAi-ICH

BRUSILOFF RENEWS ATTACKS AT TEN POINTS. PETROGRAD, 23rd September. A Russian commilnique says :—The enemy south-west of Lake Norotch launched a gas attack for two hours. Subsequent attacks in dense columns were repelled. In the communique there is no mention of the Halich. lighting, but unofficial reports state that the battle continues with extreme violence. General TcherbachefFs troops are fortifying the captured German positions, which are exposed. There were incessant counterattacks for forty-eight hours, the only result being that the Russians captured three more of the enemy's lines. The ground is covered with German corpses and wounded, which it is impossible to remove owing to the stress of the fighting. One wood overlooking the banks of the Naraiovka changed hands six times before the Russians'finally captured it. PARIS, 22nd September. The Journal's Petrograd correspondent reports that Jihe battle is raging with redoubled violence north of Halich, on the banks of the Raraiovka' River. The resumption of Brusiloff's offensive, after twenty-four hours' bombardment, began 'simultaneously at ten points. Hundreds of prisoners were taken in the last two days.