A COMPLETE ROUT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 5

A COMPLETE ROUT

AUSTRO-GERMAN FRONT IN GALICIA BROKEN.

OPERATIONS AT BRZEZANY

HINDERED

BUT OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING ON

LARGE SCALE

RL TSSIAN HEAVY ARTILLERY TREMENDOUSLY STRENGTHENED.

LONDON, July 10. A wireless Russian official message states: General Korniloff continued his offensive in the direction of Dolin. There were sanguinary battles on the roads towards Halicz, also in the region of the villages of Huciska, Pacykov, and Pavelce. \

Bayonet fighting at Pavelce resulted in the enemy's complete rout.

We occupied the villages of Victor ■■»', Majdan, Huciska, and Pacykov., and reached the village of Bukovica. The enemy retreated to. the river Lofniea. j The Russians, by daring attacks, in the two days' offensive penetrated the enemy's positions to a depth, of ten versts.

PETROGRAD, July 31. The Austro-German front between Halicz and the Carpathians has been broken.

The Russians in the neighb-jrh.x»d of the Dneister turned Halicz from the south and south-west, and now r.enace Halicz bridgehead.

Between July 2 and 8 jeneral Ko'-ni-loff took 14,000 prisoners, and Mty-five guns, of which twelve are heavy. (Reutsr Service.) PETROGRAD, July 11. General Korniloff's cavalry, with Cos- ! sacks, following up General Kirbach's retiring army southwards of Haiiicz, forced the river Lukovitza, iimning parallel with the river Luvka, which dominates the wooded eastern bfnk, it is considered unlikely that the demoralised enemy will be able to concentrate sufficient troops to prevent the R,ussians passing the river and continuing the advance in the direction of Dolina.

The co-operation of the seventh and eleventh, armies northwards cf Ifalicz with, the eighth southwards has hitherto been like clockwork.

The Petch, in a military article, points out that the success of the eighth army will separate General yon Bothmer's German army Mid General Kirbaeh's third Austrian ar ny, which were in contact between ftVlu-z and Stanislau. The writer anticipates the evacuation of Halicz, wiiicli is not- a fortress, being only a strong bridgehead protecting General yon Bothmer's positions from east and south-east. (United Service.) PETROGRAD, July 10. Heavy rains and mud are hindering [ Russian operations at Brzezany, but the offensive is developing on a large scale. There is strong activity spread along a front of 140 miles in the south-west.

AMSTERDAM, July 11. The Vossiche Zeitung's correspondent in Galicia, describing the latest fighting, says the Russian heavy artillery has been tremendously remforced^by British and French artillery and artillerymen. One heavy gun near Brzezany was of forty-five centimetres calibre.