RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

WAR OFFICE CONFIDENT. THAT TEUTON STRATEGY WILL FAIL, London, Sept. 0. The Russian War Office is confident that the wedges the Germans are trying to drive into their front will not succeed in separating the Russian r.rmies; also that the attempt to envelop a large 'body of troops by a manoeuvre which Oias created a dangerous salient at Grodno will fail. RUSSIAN REPORT. KEEPING THE INVADER IN CHECK, ' Received Sept. 7, 11.25 p.m. retrograd, Sept. 7. ' A communique states: Fighting continues in the middle Niemen, where the ■Germans are attempting to develop an 'offensive. The enemy's most important offensive on September 5 was at Vol•'kovgsk, along the Sedletz-Hasselda railway, and in the Drogotegine district, where we crushed all attempts. The 'enemy continues to concentrate his main efforts upon the roads from Lutzsk towards Duhno and Kovno, GERMAN REPORT. Received Sept. 7, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 0. A German comimmii|ue states: From the Baltic eastward to Grodno there is no change. General Hindenberg's right Wing, approaching the Niemen at Lunna, and approaching Ros from the southward of Wolkowcsk, captured a swampy belt. North east of Pruzana General Mitckensen's attack is progressing. AUSTRIAN REPORT. Received Sept. 7, 9.10 p.m. Vienna, Sept. 0. A communifjiie state.-;:—The Russians' repeated and severe counterattacks on the Becssarabian frontier and cast of the mouth of the Sereth were! everywhere repulsed with heavy losses. Our troops ha dtlie least luck and most dillicult conditions. They crossed the Marohy in an inundated district, and also ceded the enemy from the last fortification on the upper Jasiolka, and gain a footing on the northern bank. GERMAN* LOSSES ON THE FRONT. London. Sept. C. A message from Amsterdam, states that information from a German source shows that the Austro-German losses on the Russian front in August were 110,000 men.