HARD FIGHTING CONTINUED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 5

HARD FIGHTING CONTINUED

RUSSIANS ATTACKING PINSK

FAVORABLE PROGRESS IN

GALICIA

OFFENSIVE NOT A MERE DEMONSTRATION.

LONDON, July 7. A wireless Russian 'Official message states that there is increased reciprocal artiilerying in the direction of Zolotchev. Sharp encounters have taken place in the region of D^ikelany. The enemy's artillery is intense eastward of Lepitzadolia. The Germans displayed the white flag and suggested fraternising in the region of iialiestchi, but we replied by artillery. A wireless llussian report states: In the direction of Zolotchev we attacked fortified positions and occupied three lines of trenches, but were pressed back by the enemy counterattacks. Our offensive westward of Konuichy was continued throughout yesterday, positions constantly changing hanas. The heights nortn-west of Presovce and the villages of Lavrikovee and Tiavotloki, togeiher with the heights eastward of Godov, remained m our hands. In the evening we pressed the enemy back in the Jamnica-Pacechna sector, north-westward of Stanislau. We also advanced in the direction of Bakhovce and Dzviatch, occupying the latter. Three of our fastest cutters raided Lake Razin, southward of the Danube and landed under fire. They captured machine guns, a breech field gun, and several Bulgarians were bayoneted. VANCOUVER, July 7. A message from Petrograd states that a battle has begun at Pinsk. The Russians are attacking, and Pinsk is afire. LONDON, July 7. A wireless German official report ; states: Massed Russian assaults at Brzezany, between Zborow and Koniuchy broke down heavily. The Russian offensive in Galicia has been vigorously resumed. Massed infantry attacks in the Zborow, Koniuchy and Brzezany regions are progressing favorably. They were made on a large scale. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent in Galicia states that Petrograd is closely linked up with the battlefields where Russia js fighting for her existence on two fronts, and that while General Brusiloff continues his advance on a forty-mile front in Galicia the German agents at Petrograd are not slumbering. The latest war news shows that the offensive is not a mere demonstration, but a clear, strategical plan, immediately threatening Brzezany and Halicz. The enemy is incapable of understanding the mobile Russian mentality, and is now hastily concentrating reinforcements, including fresh formations from the interior of Germany. The enemy "counter-attacked at Miecziszczow because a Russian army corps was forcing the Zlota-Lipa, and thereby exposed the Austrian. Ime to ' the greatest danger. The Russians repelled the counter-attacks, but did not press their advance. It is noteworthy that among the first to fall in the advance were many leaders of the Regimental Committees and delegates from the fighting corp* taking part in the "All Russia" Congress. These hastened to join the offensive. The infantry are delighted at the powerful artillery preparations, which are eclipsing anything seen on the Russian front. The Czech-Slovak division particularly distinguished itself in the fighting. Meanwhile the Leninites are openly condemning the offensive, declaring that the army has been misled by the Socialist Ministers, who are playing into the hands of the Allied Imperialists. There is not the slightest doubt that the Leninites are making headway among the Petrograd masses. The Leninites are prepared to use power to force the matter to a crisis.