A FURTHER COMMUNIQUE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 5

A FURTHER COMMUNIQUE.

(Received July 19, 10 p.m.)

Berlin, July 19

A communique states that Buelow, near Aliauz, defeated Russian reinforcements which had been brought up hurriedly, capturing 36.20 officers and men, and six guns and three machine guns. The Russians continue to retreat between the Pissa and the Vistula, where reserves and Landwehr under General Yon Seholz stormed some villages, and General yon Gallowitz broke through strongly consolidated positionsat Mlodzianowo and Karnicwo. The Russians are also retreating between the Pilitza and the Vistula. General yon Woyrech, making progress, drove a wedge into the Russian position at Ilzanka, forcing the Russians to retire at night with heavy loss southward to Zwelen. General Mackensen made several thousand prisoners in storming the heights south of Biazki.