THE RUSSIAN RALLY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14700, 3 September 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN RALLY.

DESPERATE FIGHTING CONTINUES. ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES. Press Association.—Telegraph—Copyright. PETROGR-AD, September 2. A communique states: We captured four guns on the right of the viltca. T!ie enemy occupied Gray. Desperate fighting continues. A Russian regiment was surrounded by the enemy, but broke through, annihilating a German battalion. We repulsed serious vigorous and repeated German attacks westward of Grodno, and are holding the enemy in tlie Lutz region and Galicia while withdrawing to a less extended front, inflicting heavy Josses. The total Austro-Gerraans taken prisoner is 7000, with a hundred officers! The enemy’s most stubborn attacks in the Radziehoff, Zololtcheff, Zborow and Bourkanow districts wore everywhere repulsed with enormous losses. Fighting in the districts of Bourkanow and Boutchatch was remarkably fierce. Wo repulsed numerous attacks by fire and bayonet. The enemy was sometimes unable to stand the hand-to-hand fighting, and retreated to trenches, leaving prisoners. CHANCE IN RUSSIAN LEADERS. PETROGR-AD, September 2. General Russky has been appointed coramander-in-chief of the armies for the defence of the northern region. General Yanushkeviteh, the Grand Duke Nicholas’ chief of staff, has been appointed assistant Viceroy in the Caucasus. General Aloxief succeeds General Yanushkeviteh. THE POSITION FLUCTUATING. GERMAN MENACE IN BALTIC REGIONS. MACKENSEN’S PLANS. LONDON, September 2. The Times’ correspondent. at Pelroprad says the position is fluctuating from day to day.- The enemy’s northern movements have at present reverted in the direction of Riga, and their attention is concentrated bn Friedrichstadt, a vital point situated not far from the railway opening the path to both Riga and Dvinsk. The seizure of the Mitau-Kreuzgurg section of the railway, 45 miles long, enables the Germans to bring up reinforcements from Mitau. On the other hand, in the Dvinsk region, we have assumed the offensive. The enemy’s crossing the Niemen at Olita and bis advance or Orany, disclose his intention to' isolate our Wilna-Grodna groups, hindering our retreat from the Niemen line It is hoped that the enemy operating in the region of Bialystok-Bieresk wil 1 not succeed in intercepting our retrea’ f-om Grodno to the trunk line in the vicinity of Mostv and Lida. The Russians are offering desperate resistance on a twenty-miles front between Bio loaiozh and Suprase Woods, in order to afford time for the re-grouping ir the rear. Serious importance is at ♦ rib”ted to events..-: on-the front ...frorr .. Vladimir to Volynsky, whore , ,thr enemy is uncrating,in great force. Apparently Maekensen’s army has beer transferred there to undertake an important offensive against.the trunk linr to Kovel. Kazatin and Kicff.—(Time; and Sydney Sun Services.)

OPERATIONS AGAINST RUSSIANS.

A GERMAN ACCOUNT. Received September 3, ll a.m. BERLIN, September 2. A communique states: —• General Hindenburg stormed the vil Inge of Czarnoko, on the Wilna-Grodm railway in the north. The Germar L-andwehr stormed Fort 4. north of Dom browo, on the Grodno high road, cap faring the garrison of 400. Later, Bade: 1 1 oops captured another fort, and tin Russians thereupon evacuated the res' of the fortifications on the outer line of the western front at Grodno. Hindenburg’s troops, east of Bialo vieska, occupied the crossings of th' Swislocz and Makarmvoei after a_ hard struggle, making prisoners of 3070. Prince Leopold has won his way ou' of the north-eastern border of the fores' of Bialowieska, and secured a .crossinr of the Jasiolda, on the marshes north of Grozana, by means of a surprise at tack. Maekensen continues in .pursuit alnn; tho whole line, and lias crossed the Mu chawioz section.

INDEMNITY TO SPAIN.

FOR SPANIARDS SHOT BY GERMANS. , Received September 3, 8.50 a.m. ■ PARIS, September 2. The Figaro states that Germany ha paid Spain an indemnity of .£12,000 ster ling for seven Spaniards shot at Liege it August, 1914. THE AIR FIGHTERS. PECOUD’S PLUCKY FIGHT. PARIS, September 2. _ Official. —Pegaud suffeied a glcrious d»ath during a plucky fight over Petitordis. Alone he daringly attacked a Gcr man machine, emptying several belts of maebine-gnn ammunition, A bullet kilie him instantaneuosly, and his machine fel. in our lines. Unofficial.—Soldiers watched the figlT with growing anxiety, while occasionally when the positions of the aeroplanes al lowed, German and French guns, joining in the duel, sent shrannel burstiir around the, combatants, Suddenly there was a shout of rage in the French | trenches, and .Pegoud’s machine dipped and then fell hendlrn".,.His body wai i extricated from the debris. GERMAN BOM BA RDSLU NEVILLE, PARIS, September 2. A communique reports that an enemy aviator bombarded Luneyille. There were some civilian victims. ALLIES’ AVIATORS BUSY. LONDON, September 2. The Alims’ aviators bfi Saturday l night h'mbardcd German works at Ostend'and the canlonmsnts at Middlekirkc.