RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACKS AND GAIN MANY PRISONERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13701, 3 June 1915, Page 3

RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACKS AND GAIN MANY PRISONERS.

The Premier lias received the, following from the High Commissioner :—

LONDON, June 2, 1.45 p.m. West of the village of Kurdoweany fighting continues on the front Travli-any-Galliski. • On Monday the Russians captured at the bayonets point the latter village which was strongly fortified. < On Monday on the Bzura near Witkowice, Brohow, Sochaczew, and Kozlow the enemy, using poisoned gases .extensively, attacked with great strength the lower Rawka sector, Mizerka, and Wola-Szydlowaka. The attack was extraordinarily tenacious. Notwithstanding the enormous quantity of gas discharged, the .fumes being/ perceptible twenty miles behind the Russian front, all enemy attacks were repulsed. In Galicia on Sunday the enemy attacked west and north-west of Przemysl. At night the enemy gained . a footing m the precincts of Port 7 but were repulsed on Monday afternoon, suffer) ing enormous losses. The remnants ot the erijemy — twenty-sthree officers anrt six hundred men — were taken prisoners. On the river Swica the Russians con-, tinue successful. The prisoners taken Her© between Friday and Saturday alTeady number sixteen thousand, 'four Hundred and twenty-two men and two hundred and thirty-eight officers. In the Caucasus m the direction of Olti the Rusisan patrols repulsed the Turkish posts m the region of Akha and Todon. ' . ; . In. the region rif Van, , m the valley of Manghelaff, the Turks were forced to retire.