RUSSIA'S MIGHTY THRUST AT LEMBERG.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA'S MIGHTY THRUST AT LEMBERG.

VIGOUR OF OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS, DEFENDERS OF POSITIONS StiFFM! HEAVILY. j jj (Australian and NV-'.v Zealand Cal<l<» Association.) f PETROGRAD, July 11 \ There is great enthusiasm oil the front. Prisoners testify (lint the enemy lost heavily. Regiments Inive - been entirely wiped out. Troops defending the roads to Lemberg have suffered heavily. ■ The Russian offensive has penetrated ten versts over a twentyversts front. (Australian and New inland Cable Association.) ' PETROGRAD, July 12. The dash of the Russian Eighth Army westward drives a wedge between the forces of Prince Leopold of Bavaria on the north and the Archduke Joseph on the south. It is now eelar that General Korniloff commanded the Russian main attack, and the opera--1 tions of the Seventh and Eleventh Armies, were only auxiliary. The enemy's front on the Narajowka has been turned from the south, and the enemy is bound.to hastily retire across the Guilayo Lipa, of which the lower reaches are already in -Russian hands. The cavalry and Cossacks are tirelessly driving the enemy from one river to another. 4* .1 ' ■ —= ; RUSSIANS LAUNCH SURPRISE ATTACK AT HALICZ. ; FURTHER IMPORTANT SUCCESSES ANNOUNCED. KALUSZ FALLS BEFORE RUSSIAN ONSLAUGHT. PARIS, July 12, The Petrograd correspondent of The Journal says 'that the Austrians and .Germans at Halicz were convinced that the Russian '• offensive round Brzezany would not extend as far as Halicz, where the Russiahs had been inactive for eight months and had responded to their fraternisations. They therefore concentrated their rein- ' forcements,at Brzezany and.did not dream of strengthening Halicz. Therefore , when the attack begun the Austrians, under General Kirbach, were thrown into the greatest confusion. The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, July 12 (2.50 p.m.) • - A Russian official message reports that Kalusz (about twentyfive miles, west by south of Halicz) has been occupied after a stubborn and sanguinary battle. - (Australian and Kew Zealand t'atile Automation.) - LONDON, July 12. , The Russians have captured the German headquarters at Kalusz southwestward of Halicz. ' I The capture of the strongly-fortified position of Halicz proves

I that General Komldl|'s.o|ciislv(j.is daily assuming-gmiler sign!-,., iieanee. . / ;.v \ . " ' ' The crossed the Dueister niulafy'going forward soutlrof the river on a forty mile front. The conntry here is.less adapted to defence tlmn that north of the Dniester, where" -deep-cut channels aiil tributaries flowing ibutli; afford ; formidable obstacles tp the advancing army, The country to Lemberg is now. comparatively easy, The dash of the revolutionary armies' is; returning as a result 'of the recent successes, ,r : "V "" ■, -. ■" i RUSSIAN SMASHES STRIKE TERROR IN AUSTRIA, i 4 ) - ..FAILURE OF PEACE MOVE HOTLY RESENTED. ' - ■■■■ ' ; ■ i (Australian anJ New fceaUnfl O&Ue Association.) WASHINGTON, July 12. A cable to the Russian Embassy from Petrograd states that the ' Rumanian army has been re-organised and' is now. participating in ' the Russian offensive. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) Received July 13, at 7.10 p.m. i > LONDON, July 12. The Milan correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Russian drive is producing alarming effects in Vienna. The Socialist papers bitterly denounce the Government for missing the opportunity of peace with Russia. • The Czechs are elated at the Russian triumph., A --wireless Russian official message says: Our operations on the 1 Dniester and Lomnica have continued to develop. Yesterday, the enemy, taking advantage of the intricate terrain held ba.ek our . advance westward of Bohorodszany uptm the Grabbvlca-Easalno-Kriveiez front. - > A wireless German official report says; The artillery, is lively at Riga, Smorgon, Tarnnnawitschi, Ludck and east 'Galicin. We repulsed the Russians at Ochbohara, also local attacks on the Stoichod. The Russians reached the west bank of the-River Lomnica, - near Koluszreute. • , , I s • i .

WHOLE OF DEFENDING AUSTRIANS MENACED. ( r:-v t' i 3,'-

HOW CAPTURE OP FORMIDABLE BRIDGEHEAD WAS MADE. ■ ■ . .I (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association,) j " Received July 14, at 11,40 p.m. ! 1 LONDON, July 12. The Petrograd correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says: The famous Halicz bridgehead faces eastward but its efficacy was com- 1 pletely neutralised by General Korniloff's unexpected assault from the south-west. General Korniloff's advance lias pushed wedgewise into the territory between the Dniester and the Carpathians and menaces the whole of General Boelnn Ermollrs armies, whose north-eastern sector risks being outflanked. Large numbers of Czechs and Slavaks are among the prisoners. This seems to show that the inner crisis in Austria is having it seffect upon the front.