THE RUSSIAN THRUST.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372811, 11 July 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN THRUST.

Korniloff is Aggressive.

7031 Men Captured.

Turks to the Rescue.

[Ay si. aad N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 9.5 p.m.) - LONDON, July 9.

A wireless Russian official message says: In a successful offensive westward of Stanislau General Korniloff captured on Sunday several villages, 131 officers, 7000 men and forty-eight guns (including twelve heavies) and many machine guns. Korniloff attacked Psorcite, the enemy's foremost and most important position westward of Stanislau, and advanced and captured the villages of Jezujol, Csezcv Javelche, Rijbno, and Stalycysiec Our cavalry immediately pursued the enemy, reaching Likva river. We evacuated Pindgvin, Khanikin, and Karighireu under Turkish pressure. We bombed the railway station at Pinsk, causing conflagrations. An Austrian communique says: The enemy attempted a decisive blow with superior forces against the road from Stanialcti to Kolostd. Those who penetrated our advanced trenches were ■ejected by a counter-attack. Strong enemy forces were also repulsed in the Strubyca Valley, near Suta.

THE GERMAN VERSION. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Associate*.] (Received Tuesday, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 9.

A German official wireless says: Fresh battles are occurring at Stanislau Strong Bussian attacks pressed us back "in the direction of the wooded heights of Czarnas. The German reserves thrust xo a standstill several Russian attacks in the Carpathians which failed. [The Eussian front provides good news to-day, in the report of a fresh success in the region of StanisLau, a large town in the Carpathian foothill*, 60 miles south-west of Tarnopol. There has been much fighting here for some time, and to-day General Korniloff is reported to have captured, to the west of the city, several villages, and to have seized over 7000 prisoners and forty-eight guns. The success is partially admitted in.a German communique, which follows upon other statements that the Eussian attacks in that region had failed. Further north, at several points, there have been hcavy enemy attacks, and so far the Russians have not been able to pursue their initial saccess of a week ago. Little time has been wasted by the enemy in strengthening the threatened sectors, and General Brusiloff appears to have resumed at once the "shuttle strategy" which served him well last year, by moving his striking effort from point to point on the front.]

NO STOMACH FOR FIGHT.

LONDON, July 9,

The "Times" Odessa correspondent reports that a body of Russian soldiers refused to participate in an offensive. They entrenched on the outskirts of a forest. Artillery fired shrapnel upon and a cavalry corps surrounded the mutineers who threw down their arms

ANOTHER FRONT OPENS TIP,

[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.} Received Wednesday, 1 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. A telegram from Minsk describes the beginning of military activity on several parts of the front, including an intense artillery duel in the Krevosmorgon region.