ON THE EASTERN FRONT.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13653, 22 August 1916, Page 3

ON THE EASTERN FRONT.

BRILLIANT SUCCESS. GREAT DIFFICULTIES SURMOUNTED. - RUSSIAN IMPETUS IRRESISTIBLE; DESPERATE FIGHTING IN MARSHY COUNTRY. ;' (Australian and N. 5!, Cnlile Association,) ;Received August.2l,'7.o p.m. ' • PETROGRAD, August 21. The correspondent of the Russkoe Slavo describing, the Russian capture of . Eliadldzebroif .position,- says it was the most brilliant in the history of the war. The enemy trenches, extending across the low hills between the ScreHi and the Tarnopol-Leniberg railway, were plated with iron, like -a knight's armour. Massive earfhorit parapets were covered with a solid layer of fcrro-coucrete, The position was protected on the left tlank by a chain of reedy-lakes and marshes. The Russians surprised the enemy with a night attack. Where the swamps are the' least', penetrable,. the, Russians .worked their way, through' the reed-beds in complete darkness, floundering in the mud and jumping from tuft-to tuft. Suddenly a. searchlight and star., shells lit the.scene and shrapnel and.machine-gun lire .[swept the entire swamp. The attackers . were hidden, but the swaying of the rushes disclosed their movements, to the.gunners. 'The Russians pressed' oii in spite of'heavy losses, and formed•in'groups on the linn ground. Before dinvn they charged the Anstro-German lines with the bayonet. In the first light of tlie morning a. stubborn'"light eh-' sued. The enemy brought np-all- the available reinforcements, but nothing cheeked. the. Russiaim' impetus. Two. German regiments were practically exterminate'!']. The Russians' victory, combined . with General Lcehitsky's advance at Stanislau, compelled General von Bothmer to fall back to the Zlota. Lipa line. RUSSIANS MAKE ADVANCES. . SEVERAL VILLAGES CAPTURED.. (Australian anO.Z. Calile Association). . LONDON, August 20. A .Russian commnifine says: We captured; Cliervisplii'.'farm ' and' heights on the Stokhod. There was stubborn'lighting for ' Toboly, which has changed hands several times and now remains in our possssion. We have captured (he heights westward of Zablonitza and'Voronka, and repitlse'd attacks against' our ■ heights' north ''of Kirlibafta. AUSTRO-GERMAN SUCCESSES. holding the rus'stan : Advance, j (Australian anil N.Z. Cable Association.). -. AMSTERDAM, August 20; • A German communique .says:' Marshal von Hiiulenburg frustrated Russian attempts to cross the Belsina,'aiul 'is 'still engaging the Russians- on tile Stokhod. j He lias ejected the Russians from their advanced trenches eastward of Kisheline. ■ There is no change northward of the' Carpathians. Archduke Carl l hascaptured Greta height, southward. * of Zabie, and -repulsed-strong-counter-at-tacks at Magura.