THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

HEAVY FIGHTING

GERMANS TRYING TO ENVELOP

PRZEMYSL

REPEATED ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN

LINES.

GERMANY'S APPARENT SUCCESS

DOES NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT

RUSSIANS

PETROGRAD, May 26. Official.—Sharp fighting continues on the whole Dubissa front.

We repulsed the enemy in the Opatow region, despite reinforcements, inflicting heavy Mosses.

There was desperate fighting on both banks of tte San. Our artillery scattered great forces in repeated attacks, and we took prisoner twenty officers, one thousand men and several machine guns. .

. It is unofficially stated that the Germans are endeavoring to encircle Przemysl. They claim they have captured positions within seven miles of the inner fortress, and that the Germans got across the San on a front of fifteen miles. The Russians are holding a bottle-neck between Przemysl and the Dneister marshes, where the Russians advanced and captured some villages.

LONDON, May 26

The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says the Russians are making Przemysl the anvil whereon the German centre is being hammered, the hammer being the Russian advance southward from Nisko. In view of the immense reserve of men the Russians find their striking power less affected by the Germans' apparent success, which may eventually shorten the war.

AMSTERDAM, May 26. A German communique states: Strong .Russian forces attacked us on the Dubissa, east of Rossieni, and we repulsed them across the river with heavy loss. We *ook 2240 prisoners and captured five machine guns. "General Mackensen re-opened the attack north of Przemysl with complete success. We stormed and captured the strong fortified places of Dashajow, Astrow, Radymuo, and Wysocko. South of Cetula we captured 21,000 men and 39 guns, of which nine were heavy, and forty machine guns. An extraordinarily high number of Russians were killed.