IN GALICIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3251, 5 July 1916, Page 19

IN GALICIA.

PETROGRAD, June 20. A communique stales: After an ar= tillery preparation, General Lechit* sky’s troops, despite the enemy’s des= psrate resistance, dealt a violent blow between the Dniester and the Prath, carrying three lines of trenches. Desperate fighting has begun on 'the front along the River Thirtovetz, a tributary of the Dniester, and around the town of Italy, where we inflicted losses upon the enemy. In addition to taking 50,506 prisoners for the day, and a large number of machine guns, one regiment captured a heavy battery of four guns intact. The total number of Austro=Ger= mans taken prisoner is 205,000 since the 4th inst. Desperate fighting continues at the village of Linovka, on the Stochod. [Kuty is an important town about 40 miles duo west of Czernowitz.] AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. VIENNA, June 29. A communique states : The enemy east of Kolomea renewed their mass attacks along a front of 40 kilometres, and there was stubborn fighting. The reserves at several points, hurrying forward, repulsed superior enemy forces, but in the evening we were obliged to retire from part of the front at Kolomea and southwards. ENEMY’S GREAT GUNS. PARIS, June 29. Colonel Nadeau (French military expert with the Russians) telegraphs from Petrograd that the enemy are using great guns in an endeavour to retain at all costs their supremacy over the straight oast and west line between Kolki, the Upper Styr, Bogovchovka, and the Upper Stochod. They arc covering Kovel and threatening Lutsk. A GERMAN ADMISSION. LONDON, June 29 . The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger’s correspondent on the cast front states that the Germans have never hitherto been obliged

to repel assaults of this violence. Tb Russians' full use of their huge- strength of infantry is deserving of the highos,' admiration.