MORE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.
QISJ ENIS A ENID MEN CAPTURED.
PETROGRAD, October 20. A communique states: Terrific fight-
ing in the northern sector continues. We brilliantly followed up our success at Middlestry, capturing many prisoners and machine guns. North of Rafalonka we stormed Tchartorysk, and, turning the enemy flanks, captured 700 of the First Kronprinz Grenadiers and nine guns. Owing to the German use of explosive ballets, the Russians were exasperated and bayoneted a large number of the same regiment. The pursuit continues. Experts claim that the Russians are utilising a railway along a fortified narrowpassage between the lakes with every resource of military engineering ; hence every step must be won by hard fighting. The following is a typical example of Russian determination: The Germans were entrenched on Height Sixty-six by means of trenches along a series of terraces up the slopes of the hill, all well furnished w-ith machine guns. The Russians, however, rushed the hill at the point of the bayonet, killing the majority of the defenders.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 17
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