IVANOFF’S TREMENDOUS COUNTER-OFFENSIVE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 27

IVANOFF’S TREMENDOUS COUNTER-OFFENSIVE.

LONDON, September 29. A German correspondent with the Austrians reports that the armies have abandoned the offensive in the Volhynian triangle in order to resist General Ivanoff’s tremendous counter-offensive, which is designed to penetrate the Austro-Hungarian positions in Volhynia and Brody. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. ROME, September 29. A Berlin communique states ; General von Hindenburg’s attack south-west of Dvinsk has reached the Swenten lakes. Our cavalry, after effectively supporting General von Eichhorn, quitted the region of Vileyka. VON MACKENSEN’S DANGER. AMSTERDAM, September 30. Herr Moraht, writing in the Berliner

Tageblatt, points out the serious situation of General von Mackensen’s army, and that the Austro-German front in Eastern Galicia north-west of Volhynia is limited for the moment to defence. OFFENSIVE IN GALICIA CONTINUED. P FTP OGR AD, September 30. A, communique states : The enemy southeast of Oshwiany drove the Russians back somewhat. The enemy south of the Pripet, being reinforced, repulsed the Russians at Chartoriysk, on the right bank of the Styr, to the west of Tarnopol. The Russians, after terrible fighting, occupied the enemy’s trenches and fortified the positions at Khovachoa. Continuing a farther offensive, the Russians, after a strong artillery preparation, captured the enemy’s trenches east of Kupchintze.