RUSSIANS STILL FIGHTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 30

RUSSIANS STILL FIGHTING.

PETROGBAD, October 4. A communique states : Desperate fighting has occurred at Stak-

howtsy and the southern euci of Lake Naroch. The Russians captured eight German howitzers and six light guns. The Germans, supported by a hurrjeane of artillery fire, drove out the Russians from Stakhowtsy. The Russians, in a fresh attack, recaptured the farm at Tyo. German attacks south of Smoigot were repulsed. FIVE REGIMENTS OUTFLANKED. PETROGRAD, October 4. Five Hungarian regiments were entrenched on the hills near Potchaeff. The Russians cleverly outflanked them, occupied the hills, and opened a terrible fire on the fleeing enemy, compelling SOOO men to surrender. FEARS FOR BIG CITIES DIED AWAY. LONDON, October 3. The Observer’s Petrograd correspondent states that fear for the big cities of Petrograd, Moscow, and Kieff has died away. A very real change has occurred in the situation at the front. The Russians, without anywhere giving the Germans the satisfaction of general battle, are gradually transforming passive into active resistance all along the line. CALLS FROM THE WEST. LONDON, October 3. The Times correspondent at Petrograd says: The rapidity of the Russian victory over the German cavalry in the Yileika region, coupled with the tendency of the enemy to confine operations to artillery fire in the Dvinsk-Osaraiana region, are indications of a German response to the calls from the west. General von Mackensen is still vigorous in the south, but General Ivanoff struck a severe blow at the enemy near Tarnopol. In view of the general engagement in the west the Russians may be depended on to strain every nerve to assume the offensive along the whole Austro-German front. Since the rupture of the Russian lines on the Dunajec the enemy’s advance has averaged two miles a day, and obviously it will require, at that rate, many months to reach Petrograd, Moscow, or Kieff, even under favourable conditions. DUMA CONVOKED EARLY. PETROGRAD, October 3. The Duma has been convoked for October B—five8 —five weeks earlier than had been intended. Russian newspapers report that the Aus-tro-German prisoners in Russia to September 17 totalled a million. GERMAN ATROCITIES. PETROGRAD, October 3. Official: The enemy are continuing their atrocities. A Russian officer and two cavalrymen who were taken prisoners were found at a distance from the battlefield with their eyes gouged out and their teeth broken and other wounds inflicted. RUSSIAN NEW ARMY. ROME, October 4. The Corriere Della Sera’s Petrograd correspondent says that the Russian new army of 1,500,000 men is ready in the Petrograd district.