With French Minister of War
More Confident than Ever of Final Success Exchange of Pledges and Assurances A Picturesque Military Review BIG WHITE STAR LINER TORPEDOED Sensation in United States American Passengers Aboard Government Action Regarded as Inevitable The German Onslaught on Kovno The Fury of War Let Loose Several Hours of Butchery Devoted Russians Fight to the Last Enemy’s Prodigious Losses 382 nd Day of the War By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, August :?«. Received August -Uth, 8.5 p.iu. Lord .Kitchener has returned from a three days* visit to the western front. He Is more confident than ever of dual victory. ROME, August 20. Received August 20th, 8.30 p.m. A communique states: We expelled the defenders from the Possialti-Port Touaie zone and occupied the Alont Pateruo Redoubt, in the Upper Jteinz, and captured a line of trenches near Trecroci. We completely repulsed counter-attacks on our positions in the Tolmiim sector and progressed in the Carso district. PKTKORRAD. August 20, Received August 20th. 11.25 p.iu. Official: Our warships protecting the (.'ulf of Riga drew in closer owing to the enemy’s superiority. The enemy at Kovno continues vigorously to develop his success. He has occupied the town and advanced further. He has established himself on the Isthonas between the Niemen and the Wllicax. Fighting continues with extreme tenacity from ossowiec to Brest-Litovsk, also on the lower Bobr and in the direction of Bielsk and near Tlodavu (on the Bug). The enemy is attacking the Novo (.'eorgievsk forts on the right bank of the Vistula and one on the Narew with increasing vigour. The fighting is most determined. Our entanglements are cumbered with heaps of German bodies, but the German artillery, developing a maximum of intensity, silenced our aims and demolished the fortifications between the Wkra and the Narew. after which the defenders, despite all our efforts, were obliged to withdraw to the right bank of Hie Wkra. The Germans wen; thus enabled to concent rate their efforts on the northern sector between the Wkra and the Vistula.
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Southland Times, Issue 17506, 21 August 1915, Page 6
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With French Minister of War
Southland Times, Issue 17506, 21 August 1915, Page 6
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