FURTHER RUSSIAN PROGRESS
BETWEEN THE DNIESTER AND THE ROUMANIAN FRONTIER. , (Official.). (Rec. Jan. 3, '9.30 a.m.) - * - PETROGRAD, Jan. 2. We crossed the Siyir in the C-zartovysk regioYi and captured the village of Khri- ■ ■ asi,despitefuiilecouTiter-attacks'wiiicli •; V -followed. We drove back the enemy in the Ussstchko distinct to the right bank ' , of.-the Dniester and /progressed between the Dniester - and the Roumanian frontier. ■ - AN -AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. "VIENNA, iDec. 31. . A communique states The battles in Eastern. Garcia are - increasing in extent and violence. The enemy's-.afctacks yesterday were directed in Bessarabia, and also/east of Oik and -oir, the lower and; middle Sfcrpa. The', Unssiaai jadvamce ijhiNflgj {failed under' the fire of (oui* batteries. ■ r Otherwise ■ • the storming columns colla-psed undter our ' machine -. " guns: Twelve hundred, prisoners ,were captured yesterday.' , A GERMAN KEPORT. . - . , Amsterdam, Dec. 31. : Detachments , of. Linsingen's sliarp- . shooters.renpulsed 'Bussian attacks, south-, !. wards of Sschlock. Von Bothmei* repuls- - ed. 'strong Russian attacks on. the bridge- : head ~at Bulkanow, on the tStrypa, capturing 900 prisoners. " AUSTRIAN ACCOUNTS. - _ AMSTERDAM: Jan. X Austrian accounts ..state that" the Bus- . siacs concentrated 203 t 1; visions on -a' *:front of 'three miies. TJTelicninarv to a •- bombardment for 36 hours. The Austrians claim to have repulsed 22 assaults, mostly in- desperate hand-to-hand fight- , ing. / AMSTERDAM, Jan. 2. .:J ?An Austrian communique . says :—We repulsed, -five attacks north-eastward of Buczacz, the Russians abandoning hun- - dreds of- dead- and wounded. A GERMAN. COMMUNIQUE. - (Official.) BERLIN, Jan. 1. The 1,-rfsians were repulsed in Eastern Galieia owine to an effective flanking movement. '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 3 January 1916, Page 5
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