STILL RAGING FIERCELY.
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES
(Press Assn.—Reed. 10.55 p.m.)
PETROGRAD, July 19
A communique says the battle between the Vistula and th e Bug has attained extreme intensity. -On Saturday we repulsed the enemy's onset with valour and tenacity and also repulsed ten attacks in the Wilkolaz district. '
Great masses of Germans -' attacked the left bank of the Viprz and succeeded in making progress in the Izdebno district, but ■ outtroops heroically repulsed the attacks.
The enemy .on the 16 th suffered very great losses in • attacking a
position on the river Volitza, where they left heaps of- bodies in the front trenches. Heavy fighting' n proceeding at other places on the river Bug.
The enemy's offensive against Tukkum and Atlanta is continued. Large bodies of cavalry are being employed by both combatants.
The attack on Prasnysz, which was conducted with a wide front, forced, us to concentrate our position nearer Darew. We are also regrouping , our forces to the left of.the Vistula the work being carried on without molestation.
We captured 2000 Austrians and seven machine guns who crossed the Dniester on Friday.
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Northern Advocate, 20 July 1915, Page 3
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