VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14050, 21 July 1916, Page 3

VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS.

CAVALRY CROSS THE CARPATHIANS. PFLANZER'S COMMUNICATIONS THREATENED. THE FIGHT ON THE LIPA. AUSTRIANS SURRENDER EN BLOC. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PETROGRAD. July 20. General Lechitsky's cavalry are across the Carpathians on the main road from Kirlibaba towards Marmarossziget, threatening Genetral Pflanzer's communications and causing intense anxiety m Hungary. Vienna message ' says telegraphic communication with Marmarossziget has been suspended, and a large portion of the village of Curahmora, m th© war zone, has been destroyed by fire, 500 houses being burned. In the fight on the Lipa the Russians forced the line at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 16th, wading, under machine gun and rifle fire, thi'ough the water and marshes above their waists, often up to their armpits. The engineers laboredunder heavy shell fire to construct a bridge to enable the cavahy and. guns to cross the river m pursuit of the enemy. . The Austrian end of the bridge was a horrible place congested with dead and dying and horribly wounded men. Many of the Austrians had apparently been wounded by their own guns m attempting to prevent the bridging of the stream. The Austrians now simply refuse to fight after their initial resistance, and prefer to surrender eh bloc rather than risk being cut to pieces on the retreat. v