THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

" HINT OF NEW RETIREMENT ;v ENEMY SUFEEIOR I GUNS: ' ' ARTILLERY HOLOCAUST ON ■ ITALIAN FRONT > iUSTMANS ANNIHILATED MR. LLOYD GEORGE' AND THE WORKERS ' •The news from 'the Eastern front to-day offers less Hope of an: immediate change for the tetter. The Russian public is being prepared by tie newspapers for news of a fresh, withdrawal, owing to the overwhelming superiority of the Gormans in'gu.ns and munitions. Mean- . while what news has come through is merely of attacks and counterattacks at various points along the long battle-line. There is an apparent lull on the West-era front) save for the operations in the Vosges.: On the Austro-Italian front,. the Italians are slowly pressing forward. There is a grim story of how the Austrians ; were caught in a terrific cross-fire at one point, and with the exception of one thousand tairfenderers, simply annihilated. Of major operations in Gallipoli there is no news, but from various correspondents have come interesting descriptions of the dogged struggle and trench' warfare into which the fight for possession has resolved itself. Mr. Lloyd George has delivered a characteristic and forcible appeal to the coal miners, " and his fiery eloquence lias manifestly struok home,