WITH THE RUSSIANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16673, 19 April 1916, Page 5

WITH THE RUSSIANS

ACTIVITY AT DVINSK.

AMSTERDAM, April 17. A German communique states : The Russians have developed great ac tivity at the. bridgehead at Dvinsk.

GROWING IN INTENSITY.

EFFORT TO TAKE DVINSK,

PETROGRAD, April 18. (Received April 18, at 9.30 p.m.) The fighting on the northern front is growing in intensity. The German forces have been regrouped in order to enable Marshal von Hindenburg to commence a maximum effort to take Dvinsk. A German attack is developing at Ikskull, tho bridgehead at Dvinsk, and the positions south of Gardunovka and Platonovka, which were fiercely contested during the autumn. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. BOTH SIDES WANT DEFINITE ISSUE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, April 17. (Received April 18, at 5.5 p.m.) The Times correspondent at Petrograd says that all the symptoms indicate that there is a renewed phase of the straggle on the east front. This is likely to surpass everything hitherto witnessed, both the belligerents being resolved to force a definite issue. The Russian reorganisation now reached a point when our ally will be,able to give her antagonist as good as she will get, if not better. It. is difficult to prophesy whether the chief blow will be directed at Riga, the Dvinsk-region, or Lake Narotch. Meanwhile the enemy's movement on the right is regarded as an auxiliary operation, upon the success of which the spring offensive will depend. The lake region is.glutted with German concentrations at the expense of the centre. There are considerable concentrations also in the rear of Marshal von Hindenburg's left flank on the Dvinsk at Imorgon, and thanks to the railways these can swiftly reach any point on the 300mile front. , Russia continues to successfully harass her foe in Galicia, and Austrian prisoners state that all- the Germans have been withdrawn and sent to France. Experts be lieve that they have partly moved north.