FIERCE FIGHTING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 5

FIERCE FIGHTING

INVADERS HELD UP AT POINTS

PETROGRAD, Sep. 2

A communique says: We captured four guns on the right of the Vilica. The enemy occupied Oray, where desperate fighting continues. A Russian Regiment, surrounded by the enemy, ■fcroke through, annihilating a German battalion. We repulsed a series of vigorous repeated German attacks westward of Grodno. We are holding the enemy in the Lutzk region and Oalicia, while withdrawing to a less extended front, inflicting heavy losses. "The total Austro-Germans taken prisoner number seven thousand, with, a hundred officers. The enemy's most stubborn attacks in the Radzickhoff, Zolotcheff, Zborow, and Bourkanow •districts were everywhere repulsed with enormous losses. Fighting in the districts of Bourkanow and Bout--chatch was remarkably fierce. We repulsed numerous attacks with the T>avonet. The enemy, dfc some points, "being unable to stand the "hand-to-hand -fighting, retreated to the trenches, .leaving many prisoners.