RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 5

RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES.

BRUSILOFF'S THIRD GREAT MOVE

FORCING A PATH THROUGH GER-

MANS,

APPALLING SLAUGHTER

RAPID DEVELOPMENTS NOT TO BE

EXPECTED

BUT NO ABATEMENT OF ENERGY

LONDON, Oct. 7, The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent states that General Brusiloff's third great move is now irresistibly forcing a path through Germany's desperate resistance between the Pripet marshes and Halicz.

There is appalling and unparalleled slaughter.

German prisoners are arriving in thousands. Whole regiments shrink to single battalions during a few days' fight. ' . " The Germans are unable much 'longer to bear such losses. Russia freely pours forward to inevitable victory with new waves from her ocean of trained men.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 7. A communique: states that fighting continues at the Ceniuvka and Zlota Lipa rivers. The enemy attempted to recapture the lost ground. Four consecutive ; counter-attacks, were repelled with heavy loss.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7

, An Austrian communique states that General Boehm Ermolli's army defeated five enemy attacks south-east of Jasinoof and captured the Russian position south of Manajoj. LONDON, Oct. 7. The Daily" phronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that fighting continues west of Luck, near Brzezany, the Russian attacks being timed to coincide with the energetic ooerations on the Dobrudja, whei'O, aft^r the first reverses, the campaign is promising, the Allies having recovered the initiative. , ; PFTROGRAD, Oct. 7. A semi-official statement warns the public against expecting rapid developments of events in Volhynia or Galicia. Though the enemy positions are not as strong as tk~«e in northern France, Hindenbiirg has thrown against Rus|si a all his .ma*n forces and nearly all' his reserves. Every yard is guarded' - and must be fought for. We shall continue operations with unabated" energy. The statement concludes: /'There is hope of success in the Balkans at an early date."