RUSSIA'S GREAT STROKE.
26,0(>0- PRISONER^; SlN^fc, JULY 1. i HEAVY BOMBARDMENT PRO- ' CEEDING. WOMEN'S BATTALION" GOES TO FftO NT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable' Association.) (Received July 12, 11.55 a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 11. Twenty-six thousand Austrian ' and German, have been' taken prisoner since July Ist. "■ "' Between the 19th and 25th of June General' Korniloff also put out of action over /eighty thousand Austrians and Germans. ' : ■ •.. ; • *. 'A heavy bombardment is proceeding .before Brz&iany. also on the Avhole line m the Dvinsk-Riga sector, in*eyehting. the Cleriirians transferring reinforcements to Galijgia. * y ...'.,.'-.. - y The enemy is -hurrying up Bulgars. Eighty, thousand Trarisylvariian R.umanes, formerly ih the Austro-Hun-garian ,-arriiy| are* - how 'Russian' prisoners of; war aiid "have expressed! a 'desire to join thee Rumanian ' army. • . ! The 'finest' '.battalion of ttumanes has* reached 'Jassy.' -• •*■ < A Death's Head! > battalion of- women has left tPetrogiad for the ! front under Madfejrie. Bolchkarera,' Admiral' Skry'd-/ lpff? _.-* daughter.** who 'fought beside her husband <_ntil' he Was' killed. * *■ ' . -' | j i While.' Brusiloff is scoring ''a bi.lliant •success 'ah ..the * fr6.it >United rStijesV aid is greatly -assisting the •'ProvisionarGo.vefliment* j*-' -America -isi lending!' lßussiai mOney: at- 3£f /per <Jent.-vf or* "building a/ second line! Serbian railway*,- and is giv-, ing ten thousands waggoft*' to assist the defective Russian transport. " The . ProvifeiOnaJy • Gdvenuncnt is also facing a task of overwhelming magnii tude m organising jsixty million voters, half of whom are illiterate, for the election .f a ■ ■ooiistit"uteh- assembly. '.. k v . f (H.ut.r's 'Telegram.)'- " • PETRQGRAI), July'll., Ihe RuftsLahs. h«\ve : captured. Hal icz*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14347, 12 July 1917, Page 3
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248RUSSIA'S GREAT STROKE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14347, 12 July 1917, Page 3
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