STRUGGLE IN THE EAST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 456, 27 July 1915, Page 8

STRUGGLE IN THE EAST.

ENEMY'S ATTACK CHECKED, j FAILURE BETWEEN THE VISTULA AND BUG. PETROGRAD, July 26. An official statement says:—"Oil the roads from Sliavli and Rossieny the enemy continues .to progress in the direction of Pointvfcge. "The enemy delivered a series of desperate attacks • along the eastern bank of the Pissa. He was unsuccessful, and suffered great losses. "We repulsed persistent attempts to cross the Narew, on the Ostro-leka-Rozan sector, but the enemy in the Rozan-Pultusk sector threw part of his forces to the left bank of the Narew. "The enemy delivered barren attacks to the left of the Vistula, in the direction of Prassetchno. "The enemy, compelled by our counter-attacks, ceased the offensive between the Vistula and the Bug, except at Grimbechow, where we repulsed several attacks. The enemy's attempt to establish himself on the right bank of the Bug failed." SITUATION OBSCURE. HUGE FORCES ENGAGED. LONDON, July 20. The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the situation remains obscure. The battleline is advancing and receding at different points, and neither side is decisively successful. It is authoritatively computed that the recent blows were inflicted on Russia by 70 German and 48 Austrian divisions, and four German and 11 Austrian cavalry brigades. Large bodies of Austro-German Landsturm are engaged. The enemy, between the Vistula and the Bug, numbers 750,000 men, two-thirds being German. Four army corps are against the line Novo Georgievsk-Ivangorod, which fortresses arc not besieged, nor yet the target for heavy artillery. It is thought possible the enemy will endeavour to contain these fortresses with a curtain of troops, reserving his main forces for Held operations. It is hinted that the advancing enemy at Kovno will soon be stubbornly resisted. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. CLEVER RUSSIAN STRATEGY. AMSTERDAM, July 26. An Austrian official statement says: "The enemy's attempt to 'cross the Bug south of Krylow failed." LONDON, July 25. Fierce fighting continues on the Russian front. The Germans claim that on the Vistula and the Bug the Russians' resistance has been broken. The well-informed Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" in a remarkable dispatch to-day, eulogising the Grand Duke's strategy, says that in the recent campaign the German advances were made every time over ground abandoned by the Russians, not after defeat, but in the execution of a well-thought-out general plan.