EASTERN THEATRE

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17250, 18 August 1916, Page 7

EASTERN THEATRE

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

BRUSSILOFF’S BIG CAPTURES

Reuter’s Telegrams.

PETROGRAD, August 16.

A communique says General Bruseiloff.’s generals from Juno 4 to August 12 captured 7757 officers and 350,845 men, .and also took 405 cannon and 1326 machine guns.

SITUATION UNCHANGED. Australian awl N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 17, 7.10 p.m.) PETROGRAD, August 16. A communique says :—There.are no changes on the European front.

ADVANCE CONTINUES

ENEMY’S DESPERATE RESIS-

TANCE,

PETROGRAD, August 16,

A Russian communique says:— Wo occupied some places west of the Zlota Lipa, enemy counter-attacks checkins- a further advance. tun troops "lighting forward between the mouth’of the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester, despite a desperate resistance oceuDied two towns upon the Bystrica. &ur pressure in the Delatyn and Worolta regions is compelling the enemy to retire westward. , We cantured a series of heights and frustrated au enemy attempt to resume the offensive in the region of the Kapul mountains.

the HQRTHERM armies.

RUSSKY AGAIN TAKES

COMMAND

Heater's Telegrams. (Received August 17, 11.5 p.m.) PETROGRAD, August 17. General Russky has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Nortlievn Armies in succession to General Kuiopatlrin.

the ENEMY’S VERSION. GERMAN CLAIMS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, AMSTERDAM, August 16. A German communique says North of the Dniester the Russians, after the sanguinary defeat of August 14, make only resultless. weak attacks. ive captured a height north or Kapul.

DISCUSSING PEACE.

GERMAN STAFF’S ATTITUDE

United Service

LONDON, August 16

Mr Hamilton Fyfe, correspondent on the Russiau front, states that captured officers say that the staff is discussing peace terms, and think that, failing success by the spring, Germany will offer to restore tho occupied territory and possibly pay an indemnity, but it the Allies agreed, Germany would start preparing for another war. Austria is only now able to hold the far-back defensive line, and the fall of Lemberg is regarded as certain.