VIGOROUS FIGHTING ON BROAD FRONT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 7

VIGOROUS FIGHTING ON BROAD FRONT.

PRISONERS NUMBER 26,000 SINCE JULY 1. TREMENDOUS AGGRESSIVE EFFORT THROUGHOUT RUSSIA, Australian and N.Z. Cauie Association. (Received July 12, 11.55 a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 11. The Russians have taken 26,000 Austrian and German prisoners since July 1. Between June 19 and June 25 General Korniloff also put out of action over 80,000 Austrians and Germans. A heavy bombardment is proceeding before Brzczany and also on the whole line in the Dvinsk-Riga sector, thus preventing the Germans from transferring reinforcements to Galicia. They are hurrying up Bulgarian reinforcements. Eighty thousand Transylvanian Rumanes, who were formerly in the Austro-Hungarian army, and are now Russian prisoners of war, have expressed a desire to join the Rumanian army. The first battalion of these Rumanes has reached Jassy. A Death's Head battalion of women has left Petrograd for the front, under Madame Bolchkarera, Admiral Skrydeloff’s daughter, who fought beside her husband until he was killed. While General Brussiloff is scoring a brilliant success at the front, the aid of the United States is greatly assisting the Provisional Government. America is lending Russia money at per cent., and is building a second line on the Siberian railway, and giving 10,000 wagons to assist the defective Russian transport system. The Provisional Government is also facing a task of overwhelming magnitude in organising 60,000,000 voters, half of whom are illiterate, for the election of the Constituent Assembly in September.