DESPERATE STRUGGLE NEAR GALIGIAN BORDER.
RUSSIANS REPORT CAPTURE OF PRISONERS.
GERMANS REPULSED SOUTHWARD OF PRIPET.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received September 17, 12.15 a.m.)
Petrograd, September 16. A communique says We dislodged the enemy from two villages fcorth-westward of Sventsiany, a town north-east of Vilna, near the Dvinsk-Rovno Railway. We drove the enemy back from the ford on the River Vilia (east of Kovno), near the railway. " The enemy, after being repulsed on the front southward of tPripet, is stubbornly counter-attacking with great forces. "We captured north-eastward of Dubno (near the Galician border) 57 officers and 2507 men. Later the enemy counter-attacked &nd threw back our troops. "There is desperate fighting along the River Strypa. westward jof Trombovla, where we captured 1500 men.''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16025, 17 September 1915, Page 7
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