RUSSIA'S GRIM ORDEAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S GRIM ORDEAL

GERMANS STILL ADVANCING DESPERATE FIGHTING BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF ITALIANS HUGE LOSSES OF AUSTRIA® BIG TURKISH CONVOY SUNK ° WELSH STRIKE ENDED ■% ■ , To-day's news from the Eastern theatre does not brighten the situation from the Russians'" point of view. The German advance . ■ continues, and the Russians are fighting heavy rearguard actions. As ' yet there is no sign of a counter-stroke, and the Germans on the sector directly l west of Warsaw are within, twenty miles of the city, which, . at frightful loss to their armies, tliey have so often endeavoured to. i capture. Tho only news of importance from the Western front is the capture of the German trenches by the British in Flanders*- and three successful air raids at differeut points. In the Austro-ltalian theatre the Italians on the Isonzo front aro reported to have scored a decisive and strategic success. Russian torpedo-boats have destroyed a, big Turkish convoy of fifiyviine sailing ships, laden with war. material for the .operations in Asia Minor. The great South .Wales coal etrike has been settled, under conditions which we publish to-day, and the principal London journals, while according full credit ' to Mr. Lloyd George for his part in the settlement, unsparingly condemn the miners for their hold-up of supplies at such a time. The ; ■ British Prime Minister has asked for, and been, granted, a' var : credit of £150,000,000, and incidentally informed the House that the Government had in view the possibility of having to make advances to • ' States which have not yet entered the arena of the European conflict.