ENEMY PURSUED ACROSS THE RIVER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14138, 14 July 1916, Page 5

ENEMY PURSUED ACROSS THE RIVER.

STRAINING EVERY NERVE TO

SAVE KOVEL

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received July 13, 8.25 p.m.) London, July 13

The "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent reports hot fighting on the west bank of the Stokhod. The retreating Germans burned the bridges and the Russians are piirsuing them across the river.

The Germans are straining every nerve to check their advance on Kovel.

The Russian captures in five days on the Stokhod totalled 611 officers and 21,145 men, besides 71 guns an3-S3 machine guns.