ALLIED ATTACK SUSTAINED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 7

ALLIED ATTACK SUSTAINED.

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RUSSIA'S FIGHT IN THE EAST.

ADVANCE IN VOLHYNIA.

The allies are stiff attacking the German positions near the French' and Belgian border and in the Champagne district. The British hate maintained the gains made in their attacks north-west and sooth-west of Lille. North-west of Hulluch they reputed a number of counterattacks, and east of Loos they continued their offensive. The British captured 2500 Germans, IS guns and 32 machine-guns. After violent fighting along the whore Champagne front the French occupied scTeral new positions.

The attacks in the west haTe so far yielded 23,000 prisoners. A feature of the allied offensive is aeroplane raids 40 miles behind the German lines on railway junctions, which seriously interfered with the movements of reserve troops. It is stated that it is certain the allied thrust will be in the Champagne districts where there is open, undulating country.

Important Russian successes are reported from both ends of the line. A strong German column near Drinsk was lured into marshy ground, surrounded and annihilated. The A ustrians kaYe evacuated Brody, one of the Volhynian triangle of fortresses.

The Russians assert their ability to hold Dvinsk, the fortress southeast of Riga, on the Dvina River, the capture of which the Germans desire so much in order to secure the safety of large forces further south, which were thrust forward from STentsiany in an attempt to cut off the Russians retreating from Vilna. The Russian resistance appears tt> be stiffening at all points. They are advancing along the Roumanian frontier, and since early in September have retaken seventy miles in the Kovel region, north-west of the Volhynian fortresses of Luck, Dubno and Rovno. The Dardanelles operations have recently been confined to bombardments and mining. Allied aircraft has do'ne eseful work. It is stated that the allies have informed Greece that in the event of an attack on Servia or Greece the allies will come to the rescue with men and m<*iey.