RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 7

RUSSIA

I 1 FIGHTING RENEWED. "WITH VARYING RESULTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Aasn. pud Rente' - N Received 8.8 p.m.. March 29th. LONDON, March* 29. .Russian official.—On the western front German ..attacks past Ulukst, ■ north-west of Postavy (northern front)', were repulsed. «! By a night attack at Boguchi,..northwest of Krevo, the enemy occupied part of our trenches, but an immediate counter-attack restored the situation.

Wo stacked with gas on the Stokhod river (Vclhynia), and in the region of Boarouno and Riopian from the south. Or. the river Tehabarioclia we are fighting for positions lost on the 23rd March. Enemy attacks south of the river Ussa, south-west of Moinesti, occupied 3,-parb of our positions, after a desperate fight. AEROPLANES AT WORK. BOMBING IN TURKEY. _ Russian seaplane squadron,? raided Verkos, twenty-five miles north-west of Constantinople, and ' dropped fifty r oombs on a aqueduct supplying Constantinople with water. Another" squadron bombed Tultcha. GERMAN REPORT. ON CARPATHIAN CAMPAIGN. Admiralty—Per Wireless Press. Received 5.5 p.m., March 29th. LONDON, Maa-ch 2S. German official.'—We penetrated a Russian' position on the north-eastern :-lopo of the lower wooded Carpathians, and stormed- a fortified ridge south of, Uz valley. A thaw has reduced fighting' on the east front.