THE SITUATION ON THE STOKHOD.
RUSSIANS FJfiftMLY ESTABLISHED ON NEWLYVWOjf GROUND. (Australian and ; N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 14, 10.30 a.m.) VLONBON; July 15: , Tlie.. Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent sends the staff's explanatory statement of the situation on the Stokhod. The battlefront stretches for '.a hundred milnsi mostly coinciding with the valley of the Stolchod. Both banks of the river, between two railways converging on Kovel, are m Russian hands, turther north tlie Germans at some places retain the eastern bank. ar<j: indications that five additional German --army.! corps have . been deployed to the Stokhod, whereof three are from France and the remainder from other parts, of the Russian front. The fight;: for * Balvinovitch covers z front of tjiirty to forty miles. The Russians are firmly established <n 'newly-won ground. Progress has been retarded by the strength 1 of the -■emy's lines and obstinacy of tlie de fence. . ' ■ > ' ■' The Russians hold a position within six miles of a. railway junction, strategically almost equal' to Kovel.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14044, 14 July 1916, Page 3
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165THE SITUATION ON THE STOKHOD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14044, 14 July 1916, Page 3
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