RUSSIA'S SMASHING BLOWS.
BREAKING UP THE AUSTRIAN ARMIES. PFLANZEIVS FORCE IN RETREAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.} PETROGRAD, July 21. The Russian blow at Volhynia opens up possibilities of action in Vladimir-Volynsky-Lemberg regions. The enemy is no longer able to counter attack at Kaladin either north or south. . Nearly all the Austrian armies are now broken up, and the Germans are unable to send assistance. General Pflanzer's forces are retiring beyond the Carpathians into Transylvania. Meanwjhile, the Austrian population is panic-stricken, and hurriedly removing valuables from Lemberg. Correspondents at the front contribute accounts of desperate bravery. Some Germans voluntarily fettered 1 themselves to machine guns, Three were fettered . to each gun, including an offioer. Tho Russians found some still working tho guns, standing in pools of their own blood. AMSTERDAM, July 21. An Austrian communique says: Hie Germans at Volhynia forced back th-2 enemy coming from the westward of Zwiniacze and northerly.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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152RUSSIA'S SMASHING BLOWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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