CAPTURED GUNS TURNED ON THE ENEMY.
FOUR HOWITZERS AMONGST THE BOOTY. Wellington- September 26. The High Commissioner has sent the following report from London, under date 25th inst: —" The Russians, by a dashing bayonet charge, dislodged the enemy at Vileika. In this region they captured eight German guns, including four howitzers. The captures also include nine artillery ammunition waggons and seven machine-guns. The guns taken in the course of the engagement were used against the Germans." Vileika is 68 miles south-east of Vilna, on the Vileiya River, and 12 miles from the Vilna-Minsk railway. Luck (or Lutsk) is in the government of Volhynia, 25 miles from the Austrian frontier. It is on a branch of the main railway line to Erest-Litovsk, and is a very old town of the seventh century. It is north-west of Dubno, and with it and Rovno forms a, triangle of fortresses in Volhynia, for which there has been much fighting. Trembovla, where the Russians have been uniformly successful for some lime, is farther south, over the Galician border.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16033, 27 September 1915, Page 5
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