RUSSIAN THEATRE

Nelson Evening Mail, 30 March 1916, Page 5

RUSSIAN THEATRE

IMPOSSIBLE AT PRESENT A BIG RUSSIAN AD-VANCE. ' . (Bee. March 50, 8.15 a.m.) I/ONDON," March 29. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says that a big Russian advance is impossible at present, as floods \ would soon stop it. The operations are ' t ' ~ merely clearing elevated ground in order , that when the waters subside the Ger--1 mans "will be unable to re-occupy it. RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN GALICIA ENEMY TRENCHES. BUSHED. I (Bee. March 30, 8.15 a.m.) ; ' PETROGRAD, March 29. „ 1.-.-; * A communique says:—The Germans made .;furious ''counter-attacks .north-west oi Po«*«vy*

, We exploded 13 mines north of Boyans in Galicia and rushed two enemy trenches. "VVe killed the survivors and destroyed five guns. The High Commissioner reports : London, March 29, 2.2 D a.m. In the district of Jacobstadt a German attack on the village of Vargonnor was repulsed. North-west of Postova the enemy are stubbornly resisting, with fierce counterattacks. West of Lake Narotz the Germans occupied 'the forest south of Morritza, but a Russian counter-attack ejected them, entering from the northern part. In Galicia, north of Bojup, 13 mines were sprung simultaneously, the Russians entering two lines of enemy trenches, killing and taking' prisoner the Germans, and capturing live guns. In the Black Sea Russian torpedoboats destroyed stores and an ammunition depot in Anatolia. South-east of BitKs the Russians occupy Hisan, and the Turks are fleeing southward. A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. BERLIN, March 28. A communique says :—"The Russians again hurled fresh masses against the German, lines at Postavy, where theSaarbruck Army Corps are bravely defying the assault. An attack in. several waves "by two Russian divisions was dashed to pieces by the Brandenburgers and Hanoverians fighting with the Saarbruck Army Corps." ' OBSTINATE FIGHTING IN THE MAIN FAVOURABLE TO THE RUSSIANS. LONDON, March 28. The Times correspondent states: "Obstinate fighting, with a clear preponder- N ance on- the Russian side, continues along the entire front from Riga to Poliesia. The Russian advance on the left bank of the Dvina helps- to nullify the Germans* elaborate labor throughout the winter, while the pressure on such a wide front distracts and /prevents the Germans from localising the conflagration." j GERMANY'S ADVANTAGE ENEMY COMPELLED TO FIGHT WHERE HE IS WANTED TO.

LONDON, March \2B. | The Cologne Gazette says: "The battles that have taken place have given choice to our supreme commands to appoint the place and time, compelling the enemy to fight where we "wanted him. If those in command of events contemplated this. the viewpoint may be regarded with satisfaction." The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Sazonoff, in an interview accorded to a, representative of a Stockholm paper, expressed his great satisfaction at finding that Swedes, were becoming more and more convinced _ that Russia harboured no aggressive intentions against her neighbour. M. Sazonoff said that 1 he anticipated that the war ■ would bring for Russo-Swedish relations a change of an especially happy kind, to which the loyal neutrality which Sweden had shown throughout "the war, the friendly reception of Russians expelled from Germany, and the excellent treatment accorded exchanged invalids had greatly contributed. The Russian Minister pointed out that notwithstanding the present restrictions and difficulties, of international intercourse, the Russian import of Swedish goods had been trebled during 1915 as" compared with former years. " ;