ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11700, 21 October 1916, Page 8

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

A VIOLENT BITTER STRUGGLE. BOTH SIDES CONCENTRATING. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Oct. 21, noon. ■ Petrograd, Oct. 20, There is a bitter struggle on the Volhynia line, east of Yladimia, Volynsky and Sokal, where the Germans are concentrated. The artillery on both sides are concentrating to their utmost on the Roumanian front. Before the winter the Germans desire to knock out Roumania. The Russians are making an effort to obliterate the possibility of the German danger, hence the extreme violence of the struggle on Brusiloff’s front and at Dornawatra, where the Russo-Roumanians join up. THE ATHENS GARRISON. Received Oct. 21, noon. Athens, Oct. 20. Six hundred of the Athens garrison are joining the Nationalists at Salonika. FALKBNHAYJN WOUNDED, Zurich, Oct. 20. General Falkenhayu has been wounded in the leg and has relinquished the Transylvanian command. DEPARTURE ’OF DEUTSCHLAND CANCELLED. Keceived s Oct. 21, noon. * Amsterdam, Oct. 20. The departure of tne submarine DentschlandJlor America has been cancelled. SUBMARINES IN THE BLACK SEA. Copenhagen, Oct. 20. A number of German submarines are operating in the Black Sea.