AN ATTEMPT TO SURROUND PRZEMYSL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 5

AN ATTEMPT TO SURROUND PRZEMYSL

ENEMY'S PRODIGIOUS EFFORTS

AUSPICES FAVOURABLE TO THE RUSSIANS

nK . , ,™ , ... Petrograd, Mar 30. Official.- The enemy has made promgious efforts during the last few davs to encircle Przcmysl. On May 1»0, the nnemv on the San a' change of front, constructing fifteen bridges. General von Afackensen oil Mav f.| hurled his armies between the rivers Limutalchevka and San, and, the enemy s left flank, with hundreds of thousands of infantry and 1000 »un's' lo turn us on the left bank of the San on a fifteen-mile front, in the direction of ItacKnma and Drogotcner. "The Austro-G ei-man armies which shouTcJ have aided General von MackenRen to turn I'iv.emysl from the south were decimated near Gussakow, while General Rimanof, the hero of Port Arthur.' crushed the garrison of Labisseco, behind von Mackenseu. "General von Mackensen is repeating on a. much larger scale the manoeuvre at Lodz in November last. The present manoeuvre is still incomplete._ Though sumo of the infantry regiments have lost three-quarters of their effectives, it is premature to speak yet of the result, despite the favourable signs. THE RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE'S STRATEGY'. ... , T . he Petrograd correspondent of tk "Observer" savs Granfbuks Nicholas again proved his superiority m strategy. The German battering-ram became immobilised for a week, and was heavily hammered. It then attempted tactical manoeuvres, but the development was slow, and owing to the distance from tho railways it was impossible to repair the battering-ram's failure.

GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE,

» n r a: • i , « , London, May 29. A Berlin official ncconnt says: Our troops have drawn nearer to the, north Fiont ol- Przemysl. Uio Russian attacks in the region of Sieniawa have not been revived.