GERMAN NEWS FROM EAST.
J BATTLE IN BALTIC REGION. ! VON HINDENBURG ADVANCING j London. August 25. ! A German communique says Gene- | ral von Hindenburg has been eni gaged in successful fighting at j Birshi, 37 miles north-eastward of. }i j Ponewesh, in the Baltic region, and vf i General von Eichorn has been victoriously advancing to the eastward. General von Eichorn took 1850 pri-Sypf soners. General von Sch'oltz captured Enyszyn ' and - crossed the , Narew to the southward of Tykocin, . IS miles west of Bielostok. General
von Gallwitz forced a crossing of the }?E Narew on the Sokoly-Bielcstok ~% Road, and took prisoner 4500 "men. |§ Prince Leopold of Bavaria, to "the '§ eastward of Wierchowicze, took, pri- *5§ soner 1600 men. General von 'Wi Mackensen has reached the heights on the west bank of the Lesria, '3|f | the northward of Brest Litovsk. The I Austro-Germans pierced an ad- || j vanced position near Dobrynka. to . J the south-west of Brest Litovsk. J General Linsingen, on the cast bank 5 of the Bug, is engaged in heavy, fighting, and is advancing to the northwards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16007, 27 August 1915, Page 7
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