RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16309, 10 August 1917, Page 9

RUSSIA

RUSSIAN RETREAT. THREE TOWNS EVACUATED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable AssnA PETROGRAD, August 8. The 'Novoe Yremya" states that the Russians hare evacuated the towns of Kamenetz, Podolsk and Proskuroff. SEE-SAW RESULTS. GAINS AND LOSSES. Admiralty.—Per "Wireless- Press. LONDON.. August 8. Russian official.—ln the region of tho confluence of the Zbrucx vo. captured the villages of Baryehkovey and Wygodda Mid the heights westward of tho last-named village. We repulsed attacks north-westward of the Sereth. The enemy occupied two heights. Westpard and Dyeniknc, southward ol Sot eh i. We retired eastward of both sides of ilio Kimpolung road. The enemy pressed us back northward or Bisigestchi. GERMAN REPORT. I AUSTRIAN SUCCESSES. German official. —The Austro-Hun-garians stormed and occupied several summits in tho wooded Carpathians. Wi> extended our successes northward of Foesani. ROUMANIAN FRONT. ENEMY I \Yj]S FORCING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. One hundred and thirty-seven Austro - German divisions twenty-ion:-brigades c- infantry, and the whole iT the Ansiriau and German cavalry are now f:«lniii;.'. mi Russo-Roumanian ir.int. >: rria! <l!v:>ivni« arc r-u route. i'ror.i I'r.r.iee. German < ,itii-ial.~-'ltVtv> : < bitter ii'Jninc: ,-:: i i 11,.-. Ru-v-n-Rmiiiianian iron:, and sevcra! cuiircr-auaek;- v. op- lulil'.