THE CRISIS IN GALICIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN GALICIA

DECISIVE BATTLE PENDING STORY OF THE GREAT GERMAN " ' COUNTER-STROM ""INTENSE FIGHTING ' NORTH OF ARRAS TERRIFIC SHELL FIRE ELEVEN GERMAN DIVISIONS REPULSED NIGHT ATTACK IN GALLIPOLI

From both main- theatres—rEa'st and West—the news .to-day tells of heavy fighting. Main interest attaches to the military crisis in Galicia, where the culmination of the German offensive is expected to develop almost immediately in a decisive battle for the mastery of ■the situation. The advantage of position and numbers is with the Russians; with the Germans, the advantage is admittedly in artillery technique. In the Western theatre intense fighting is reported from the region north of Arras. To-day's communique from Paris presents the evidence of a battlo of considerable dimensions, in which eleven German divisions were engaged—to their cost. One attack by the Allies infantry was covered by 300,000 shells from the artillery. This tremendous expenditure'of shell and the aspect of the military situation generally has so deeply impressed Mr. Ben Tillett and other Labour representatives who have visited the front that they have returned to preach the gospel of hard and unremitting toil-in the making of munitions for the cause of liberty.. : There has been great activity amongst the airmen, and successful attacks by the Allies are recorded. 'An Austrian submarine has torpedoed and sunk an Italian submarine —the first recorded incident of the kind since the war began. There has been sharp fighting in Gallipoli, where a night attack by the Turks has been decisively repulsed by the British.