RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 29

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

RIGA TO PINSK. PETROGRAD, October 2. Military critics consider that th* enemy’s offensive from Riga to Pinsk haa been arrested. A communique states that the German attack on the railway east of Mitawa was unsuccessful. Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs on Ustovinsk and Riga and the station at Oguer. Little damage of a military character was done. The Germans, after a heavy bombardment, carried some trenches north-west of Lake Sventen. We carried by assault the town of Dunilovitchi, north-east of Lake Medziol, and also dislodged the enemy from the village of Ajuny and the station at Medziol. Our cavalry capturd a large enemy convoy east of Lake Narotch, on the Lower Servetch, east of Novogrodok, and raided the villages of Juki and Korolitzy. The Germans fled to the main positions, discarding their arms. We drove the enemy over the river Chara, near Zurietche. The enemy, after an artillery preparation, attacked near Oborki, south-east of Kolki, and advanced 100 paces, sustaining enormous losses. Then they broke and fled in disorder. A heavy fight continues south of Oborki, ENERGETIC RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. PETROGRAD, October 3. A communique states: —“As the result of a bayonet action we captured a cemetery at the southern end of Lake Narotch. The enemy have been driven back a considerable distance from the Stileika railway. “ The engagement ujron the Vilna north of Smorgon developed into a stubborn battle, and there was also a hard-fought action south-east of Koike, in the Middle Styr region. “Energetic operations during the last 20 days are unfinished, but the result is that the Russians have wrested the initiative in the Vileika region from the enemy. We decisively repulsed a German attack, and destroyed their scheme of action for some days, the great intentiveness of the enemy being gradually held in check, and their offensive broken. They were finally repulsed and enormous loss inflicted. The Russians' well contrived plans turned the defensive into an offensive, with an accomplished skill and perseverance which justify the highest gallantrj of the troops. HELD UP BY RUSSIA. PARIS, October 2. Official: The great German offensive toward and eastward of Svientziany is considered to have been a complete failure. The enemy everywhere were thrown back towards fortified entrenchments. The position from Dvinsk to Viina is that the Russians have straightened the line from southward of Dvinsk to the westward of Vileika. They completely held up the German offensive in the direction of Pinsk and Riga. GERMAN SUMMARY. AMSTERDAM, October 1. A German communique states: Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg stormed another position west of Dunaberg. Rus-

sian attacks on the front between Smorgon and Wisetner collapsed, with heavy losses. We captured on Thursday 1360 Russians. Repeated partial attacks on Prince Leopold’s army were all repulsed. Attacks on General Linsingen’s army are still proceeding. Our captures on the east front during September were 421 officers, 05,464 men, 37 guns, and 298 machine guns. AUSTRIAN TRENCHES PIERCED. LONDON, October 1. The Berliner Tageblatt announces that the Russians penetrated the Austrian trenches between the sources of the Goryn and Ikva. A RUSSIAN NURSE. PETROGRAD, October 1. Unheeding the appeals of officers to take shelter from a hail of bullets, Mira Ivanova, a nurse, tended the wounded in the thick of the battle on September 21 until all the officers, including her brother, had fallen, and the men were wavering. Mira realised that the moment was critical. She rallied the remnants, charged at their head, and captured the trench. She was then struck in the head by a bullet, and soon died. MORE PRISONERS BY GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, October 2. A German communique states : Ueneral Hindeburg made prisoners of 1100 men near Smorgen, and General Linsingen 1300 at Kormin. We have made prisoners of a further 1100 at other points. The Russians attempted to break through westward of Tarnopol and failed, leaving SCO dead. AUSTRIANS MAKE PRISONERS. AMSTERDAM, October 2. An Austrian communique states; In two days in the region of Kormin we made prisoners of 2400 Russians.