A RUSSIAN REPORT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11696, 16 October 1916, Page 8

A RUSSIAN REPORT.

A TRANSPORT CAPTURED.

RUSSIANS GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL.

Received C yCt< 16j

London, Oct 10, ” A Russian communique reports that Oqt submaiine captured a six thousand ton Turkish transport in the Black Sea, near the Bosphorus, after an hour’s fight. % Enemy attacks in the region of Skerjsov were repulsed with heavy loss. , We carried trenches north of Koryt oi tea. Enemy attacks on KirJibaha, Donnawatni and in the Dobrudja wore repelled.

THE BRITISH THRUST,

TRENCHES ENTERED

Main Service, Received Oct. 16, noon. London, Oct. 15.

Sir Douglas Haig reports that a single company cleared two hundred yards of communication trenches northward of Huff Redoubt. The enemy in the Schwahen Redoubt suffered heavily. We entered trenches in the regions of Serene, Coligcourt, Festubert and Neuve Chapelle.

IN THE BALKANS.

Received Oct. 16, noon. London, Oct. 15,

The War Office report from Salonika states: We shelled Seres station and made contact with the enemy on the railway southward of Seres.

TANKS IN ASIA MINOR

GOOD WORK DONE.

THEY SCATTER [THE TURKS

Received Oct. 16, 12.35 p.m. Petrograd, Oct, 15.

British armoured cars, under the command of Locker Hampson, had exciting times in Asia Minor. They were operating 400 miles from the rail head, dependent on bullock tracks over the mountains. They were hauled over precipices and through bogs, the damaged tanks being ingeniously patched with shaving soap and medical plaster. Travelling night and day they did much excellent work, scattering the Turks.

One squadron is now operating in Persia, south of Lake Urmia.