HEAVY FIGHTING IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING IN POLAND

t ♦ — ' i RUSSIANS ACCEPT BATTLE IN I' CHOSEN POSITION } ' J L ! GERMANS' ADVANCE AERESTED i .... \ ' •*" i 1 - STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN ' TURKS AND 'GERMANS , ■ t : TURKISH AMBASSADOR DISMISSSED \ ' L INSURRECTION PENDING IN ■ • CONSTANTINOPLE . . i - •*.. The struggle for Warsaw has reached an interesting point. It is evident that the Russians have done with retreating, and are now . holding lip the enemy who is troubled with indifferent communications • < making the task of supplying his troops with food and ammunition .a very difficult matter, while the Russians in this respect 'have tho advantage as they hold all the essential railways. Desperate engage- ' ' , ments have been fought in the neighbourhood of Ivangorod, and be- | tween the Vistula and the Bug. There is great hopei that Russia will Tepeat her brilliant achievements recorded' towards the end of last | year, when General Mackcnsen's troops were surrounded and cut to ; pieces. The news from Turkey is excellent, for it is semi-officially stated | -that the Turkish Ambassador at Berlin has been dismissed, indicating ,' serious disagreement between Germany and Turkey. Constantinople ■ is said to be. drifting towards insurrection, and the Younsj Turk' Party 1 appears desperately anxious to conclude a separate peace with tho Entente. In Prance and in Flanders there has been little doing, while on tho Italian front severe battles in tile mountains have resulted in " favour of the Allies. Coming nearer home, a statement mado in tlio ; , Federal Parliament by the Attorney-General will he painful reading to the people of Australasia. The control of Australian metals appears ■to have not yet passed from Germany, but this is to be remedied by legislation, and after the disclosures,the Government should have iio difficulty in the matter: —;... ' '•