RUSSO-AUSTRIAN FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

RUSSO-AUSTRIAN FRONT.

RUSSIA’S MIGHTY BLOW. STILL SMASHING THROUGH. THE GENERAL SITUATION. BEATING AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS ALIKE. London, July 9. Russia’vS gigantic offensive continues to progress. The present position may be summarised as follows: — Kuropatkin resumed termendons attacks on the Kiga-Dvinsk front against Himlenburg. The Russians blocked the Gulf of Riga against a hostile fleet, and were thus enabled to employ the warships’gans against, the Germans for miles inland. Bverc’a attack" on the centre extends north and south of Baranovitschi, where Prince Leopold of Bavaria has hitherto strongly resisted. The Russian attacks are here developing favourably 'on a hundred miles front. Southward, Linsiugen has been gradually forced back by Brusilolf’s right. The Russian left, under Letchitsky, routed the enemy on the right bank of the Dneister. This, together with the cutting of an important railway connecting Hungary via the Gablonitza Pass with the Galician system, is imperilling Bothmer’s army, ' which has been holding its ground on an eighty miles front for weeks. The Russians are now within range of Delatyn Junction, which is second only in importance to Kolomea.