STRAIGHTENING OF THE RUSSIAN LINE.
GERMAN ADVANCE ON BREST LITOVSK CHECKED.
fortifications of novo georgievsk bombarded. (Received Augrn-st IG, 11 p.m.) Petrookad, August 16. vuss ' an front, extending south from Kovno through the binvalki region, along the Bobr, across the Warsaw-Petrograd Railway and the Bug to 50 miles west of Brest Litovsk, is now almost a straight me , u th 1 ' igl " „ U " V " ,d C '"" Xr "'° GMrgjevsk 10 miles north aisaw, is invested, but it is confident that it will cive a good account of itself. A Russian official communique states: ' Fighting in the direction ° J 'stadt and D-wnsk, south-east of Riga, increased in intensity " Dd Saturdaj " Persistent German attacks between the and Saturd fl* T* " UCCW " ful, »' Th enemy on Friday the Siedl r' i " ,t lencd hls offensive against our position along the Railway, between Warsaw and Brest Liter*, W. ma r"* m ° VCment and rap, "' ed 600 Austro-Germans and some machine guns. with hi™ T my b 7 Wrded ,h fortification, "< Novo Georgievsk sectir ' f S " nSf made a senes °' Partial attacks against different Our "l ° t urtri ' ss - These, generally speaking, were: repulsed. Our advance-guards captured two lines of German trenches south dl,™" on ,i,p 7 ' ,ou upa ' 1,1 Eas, ° rn c " Hci "- killing the
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 7
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