STUBBORN RUSSIAN RESISTANCE ALONG DNIESTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15947, 18 June 1915, Page 7

STUBBORN RUSSIAN RESISTANCE ALONG DNIESTER.

LARGE GERMAN FORCES ADVANCE NORTH OF PRZEMYSL RUSSIANS WITHDRAW ACROSS FRONTIER OF BUKOVINA. Wellington', June 17. The High Commissioner reports from London, under date June 16: In the Shavli district the Baltic littoral fighting continues with no substantial change. " On the Narew front, in tho north of Poland, on Sunday night, the enemy made an unsuccessful attack in the region of MishenetzVaks region. Several attacks by the enemy were repulsed north of Prasnysz. » / " In Galicia the Germans, bringing up new forces for the first time, supported by strong artillery, made an advance on Saturday in the Jaroslav district on the right bank of the San, north-east of Przemysl. After three days' desperate fighting the Russians retreated some distance along the right banks of the Lubaczowka and the Wisznia Rivers, eastern tributaries of the San. "In the Dniester region on Sunday, on the left banks of the Tcsminca and Stry, southern tributaries of the Dniester, which enter the latter river south of Lemberg, the Russians captured 1200 prisoners, including 29 officers, and seven machine guns. The same day the Russians attacked in the district south of Zydaczow, 30 miles south of Lemberg, and occupied the village of Rogwzno- At dawn the fallowing day we retook the village of Zurawno, on the Dniester, 10 milts southeast of Zydaczow, capturing guns and several machine guns. A party of Germans who fired after shoeing the white flag, were killed in subsequent bayonet fighting. "On Sunday the enemy continued to attack the bridgehead at Nuzniow, in Eastern Galicia, 15 miles east of Stanislau, with considerable forces and numerous guns. The Russians repulsed the attacks and captured 1500 prisoners. "Between the Dniester and tho Pruth, north of Czernowitz, the Russians retired across the east frontier."