A TALE OF PROGRESS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 205, 31 August 1915, Page 5

A TALE OF PROGRESS.

(Received Aug. 31, 10.45 a.m.) .•VMSTERT>AM. Aug. 30

.A German pommunique states: Yon Th-oiow is fighting for the bridgehead to the southward of Friedriehstadt. Yon .K'Mjrhhnrn Ivs reached the district north-east of Odyta and captured icon.

We stormed Lipsk, on the Bohr, forcing the Russian^ in the direction of Grodno to evacuate the Sidra sector.

We passed through Sokolka and reached several points on the eastern bolder of the forests north-east and east of Bielostock.

Prince Leopold is fighting in Bialowieska forest for the upper Narew crossings.

Yon Wovrsch's Austro-Germans ejected the Russians from positions at Buchopol and are sharply pursuing thorn.

The Russians, in order to enable a detachment to retreat through the marshy district eastward of Pruzant, gave battle to yon Mackensen on the Paldubao line, south of Kobrin. They were defeated, although a portion of the retreating troops returned to their assistance.