RUSSIA'S PART.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13658, 29 August 1916, Page 3

RUSSIA'S PART.

LULL - ON THE EAST FRONT. • LOCAL ACTIONS REPORTED. IfX Qable..lA.ssociatipni) : PETROGRAD, August 27. A communique says: Our Lettish battalions penetrated the first line entanglements at ,two points at-Shmarden farm. The'eueniy violently bombarded our communications at Toboly. We- liaveioccupied a height five versts nortli-east of Mount Koverlea, and our advance in the Carpathians continues. ■ -"--LONDON, August 27. A German communique says: Repeated Russian attempts to cross the'river by boats eastward of Friedrichstadt and Liiiiicwafeif were frustrated; German detachments south-east.-of Kisseline penetrated the Russian third line and destroyed treiiches. The Archduke Karl has-been successful in lighting northward of the Dneister. ■