BRUSILOFF'S GREAT MOVE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13526, 9 October 1916, Page 5

BRUSILOFF'S GREAT MOVE.

Victory Inevitable.

RUSSIANS PRESS RELENTLESS-

LY ON.

(Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 7. The "Morning Post's" Potrografi correspondent says:— "General Brusiloff's third great move is now irresistibly forcing a path through Germany's desperate resistance, between the Pripet and Halicz with appalling and unparralleled slaughter. German prisoners are arriving in thousands. Whole regiments have shrunk to single battalions during a few days of fighting. The Germans are unable much longer to bear such losses. Russia freely pours forward to inevitable victory new waves from her ocean of trained men."

The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states: — "The hardest fighting continues west of Lutsk and near Brzezany. Russian attacks are timed to coincide with energetic operations in the Dobruja, where after the first reverses the campaign is promising. The Alilies have recovered the initiative."

German Message.

CLAIMS MINOR SUCCESSES. (Received Sunday, 6 p.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 7. A communique says: A great artillery battle o.i the Somme spread north of Anere. Oar curtain of fire quickly suppressed enemy attacks. Bitter hand to hand fighting took place southwest of Sailly, also at Vermandovillers where we broke the French attack. Russian attacks on both sides of Zlotalipa have continued. We gave up an advanced position at Tietczyszozov and gained ground in Transylvania.

General Mackenson repulsed attacks between the Danube and the Black Sea.

Casualties Lighter.

EXPERIENCE WHICH TEACHES.

(Aust. and N.Z, Cable Association.) LONDON, Oct. 7. The Press Bureau, from an authoritative source, explains the eomparately small casualties in the recent Somme fighting. Experience lias taught the Britishers to advance under fire of the artillery without rushing so fast as to dash into their own barrage or so cautiously as to lose momentum in an attack. The advance in knowledge is due to constant generous exchange of ideas and discoveries between the British and French armies. All e:»=perienco is immediately posted. After Martinpuich was taken t*ke unhurried Germans far outnumbered the British belying everything hitherto experienced about the relative expensiveness of attack and defence. For every three British «asualties at Thiefpval of all kimls we took prisoner two Germans. The simultaneous reduction of the casualty rate in both the British and French armies proves the value of Allied research work.

Huns Claim Successes.

ON SEVERAL FRONTS. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Saturday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. German communiques say:— We sanguinarily repulsed an attack between Frezieeourt and Bouchavesnes. The exhausted enemy is quiet. The enemy powerfully but inouactnally attacked Wysocko, TJ.ibio and Larkow. Fighting 'has been resumed astride the Zlota I.ipa. The enemy was driven back ».\ uere he had penetrated. eW av tbsoluk'. masters.

The Austro ~i , -arians defeated the Rumanians on tb» Goergcny sector, and rer;.ptured the position astride the Magyards-Parajd road. We pressed back -lie enemy over the Hemorod and Alt rivers, and stormed Sinca, taking hundreds of prisoners and 28 field guns. We are pursuing the enemy at Geister forest. The Rumanians rc-erossed the Danube; the remainder tied oast completely defeated. The Bulgarians evacuated villages on the left bank of the Struma.

Moewe's Captain Killed.

(Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct. (i. Ccunt von. Doon, the captain of the ioewe who was commanding a battalion of infantry has been killed in France.