RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 October 1916, Page 5

RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES.

FURIOUS FIGHTING IN .'' CARPATHIANS.

SAVAGE ENEMY ATTACKS RE-

PULSED

...-■ PETROGRAD, Get. 23. Over twenty.battalions, including an Austrian division, were-engaged' in a furious assault on Friday on the wooded vkarpattuans. The object in view was :j the securing, regardless of cost, the east of Kirlibaba. . All the atj tacks were repulsed with crushing loss, one battalion being absolutely wiped out, while another had only 170 survivors out of 850 men. ' j # The Germans are ceaselessly attack- ;,• mg Bystritza, nyher.e -the breaking of the Russian front would bring the enemy to the rear of Kimpolung and the whole of the Russian left flank*. The greatness of th.c stake explains the enemy's sacrifices.

PARIS, OcV. 24. It is. reported that the Anglo-French conference on Friday decided on a collective Entente Powers' programme as to the Eastern front. They also discussed the Greek question, whicl will develop progressively, whereby (King Constantine must realise the Allies' unity of action and energy.