RUSSIAN VICTORIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14053, 25 July 1916, Page 3

RUSSIAN VICTORIES.

BRUSILOFF'S GREAT "BAG" OF PRISONERS. GREAT BATTLE ON LOWER DVINA GERMANS THROWN BACK. RUSSIAN CAVALRY IN HUNGARY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PETROGRAD, July 24. General Sakharoff's victories on the Lipa River bring tlie total of General Brusiloff's prisoners since June 8 to 300,000. General Sakharoff's successes iiv a .week-- alone, cost the-« Austro s Germans 60,000 casualties, being one-third of the total German forces m the Lipa sector. Details of the great battle on the Lower Dvina, which has been proceedin -r foi a week, continue meagre. It is reported that the Russians m one place advanced five miles, capturing Komraem, twenty miles west of 'Riga, and that they have also driven the Germans across tlie Nusse from the Kekkau river, which flows into the Dvina thirteen miles south of Riga. . Meanwhile the Grand Duke's summer campaign m the Caucasus is extremely promising, and the weather is good. He has captured Ardasa, whereby he has secured all but the last thirty miles of ; the great military road running from Trebizon and Erzeroumi to Erzingan. The Russians have still a range 7000 feet m height to cross before they reach Erzingan from Kelkichifteik. VIENNA, July 24. Die Zeit states that numerous detachments of Russian cavalry are raiding Hungary north and south of the Borsa, forty miles south-east of Marmorossziget. There is: no Russian confirmation of the news, which may be intended to bi-vi'-k bad news to the hitherto deluded Austrian public.