RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15742, 28 August 1915, Page 9

RUSSIA.

RUSSIANS RETIRING. AT SEVERAL POINTS. Received 6 p.m., August 27th. PETROGRAD, August 26. A communique states: The enemy tciiiiaed the offensive in tlie Storberg f

Radzivichki region. In the severe fighting we drove back the Germans near Onikchty on the Sventa. Our troops in the direction of Yilna, while holding up the enemy, arc gradually falling back along hoth banks of the Yilna. . Our armies on the middle Niemen and between the upper Bobr and the Pripet are retiring eastward. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. THEIR SHARE AT BREST LITOVSK. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 27. An Austrian communique says:— Hungarian Landwehr captured the village- of Koblanz, south-west of, Brest Litovsk, and thereby broke through the outer line of forts on the west. Galician, Silesian, and Moravian infantry simultaneously stormed a fort southward of Koroszczyn. The Germans captured a citadel near the railway bridge. In the meantime the Allies drove the enemy across the Lesma into a forest and marshy land the fortress. Cavalry," pursuing them from Kornch northward, threw the Russian rearguard back near Bricin and "Wagza. ;

A GERMAN REPORT.

A German communique says:—Our vanguards havo reached Bielostok. They gallantly defeated the enemy northward and south-eastward of Bielsk.

General Mackensen's army has taken Brest Litovsk. General von Arz captured two forts on th© western front, while another force stormed the fortifications on the north-west front and entered the inner fortifications at night time. The fortress thereupon surrendered.

POLES ORDERED HOME.

General Hindenburg has ordered all Poles -who fled to return to their homes, threatening, to heavily tax absentees.

MUNITIONS SUPPLIES SATIS- » FACTORY. THE PEOPLE UNAFRAID. Received 7.55 p.m., August 27th. LONDON, August 27. The "Dailj* Chronicle's 1 Petrogvatl correspondent says that M. Shingareff. chairman of the Duma Defence Committee, announced that the shell crisis was over. The quantity of munitions being manufactured is more than tioubled and supplies are being foi*wnrded promptly to the front. The •limy is in splendid fighting condition, and the word ''evacuation" was losing it-s terror to trio minds of the people, who were beginning to regard the idea of protracted mobility as a feasible military scheme.