THIRD EDITION Star Office, Star Office, 2.30 p.m. THE LATEST WAR NEWS
(By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (.Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.]
.HE RUBBIANS
, SITUATION IN FINLAND. (Received July 16,' 1 p.m.) Copenhagen, July 15. Tho situation iu-Finland is worse. Tlie police have*resumed duty, but other strikes are threatened, including th; railwaymen
Russia have
Food supplies from been stopped. Foreigners have been forbidden to enter Finland.
(Received July 16., 1.30 p.m.) Petrograd, July 15
The importance of the occupation of Kalucz is that if brings the Russians 26 kilometres nearer the Doliua and enables them to debouch behind the enemy's eommunfcatious, finis threatening the complete'disorganisation of the Aiistro-Cerinan'forces. It will, also compel the armies beyond the Carpathians' to retreat' "through territory devoid of roads," iand exjiosing the left flank tq a cqhfinual rn'enace during a retreaji. Hand-to-hand fighting in the houses and gardens at Povecze resulted in the rout of the enemy. Entire battalions were wiped out. General Gutchkoff, ex-War Minister, has enlisted as a private.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3293, 16 July 1917, Page 3
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