RUSSIANS RESUME THE OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2466, 20 May 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS RESUME THE OFFENSIVE

TIDE OF WAR IN WESTERN GALICIA ENEMY'S ENORMOUS LOSSES LULL IN THE WEST BRITISH' CABINET ■ RESIGNATIONS REPORTED DISSENSIONS AT THE ADMIRALTY NATIONAL WAR COUNCIL Two features in to-day's news stand out conspicuously—the rumoured rearrangement of the British Cabinet, with reports of Ministerial resignations and acceptance by Unionist leaders of places in a National Council, and the thrilling story which Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett tells of a fierce three days' battle on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and incidentally of the part played hy the New Zealanders and Australians in facing a. terriflo tornado of shell fire. All is quiet on the Western front, and the French have consolidated their recent successes. In ther Eastern theatre the Russians have assumed the offensive on the left bank of the Vistula, while the disasters which have befallen the Austrians in Bukowina are considered to have squared the account in Western Galicia. Thf Austro-Germans, by the indicative, have sustained appalling losses. The Admirality has presumed the loss of the Australian submarine AE2, near the entrance to the Sea of Marmora, and the imprisonment of 3 officers and 17 of her ciow. by the Turks. Lord Kitchener has delivered • a speech in the House of Lords, reviewing the military situation, and announcing a call for '300,000 recruits for the new armies, and also the preparation of reprisals on the Germans for their poisonous gas tactics. The inference is that the British troops are about to embark on the poisoning business themselves, as the only possible means of balancing the odds of battle.