PREPARING THE. PUBLIC FOR A FRESH RETIREMENT

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

PREPARING THE. PUBLIC FOR A FRESH RETIREMENT

- THE RUSSIAN CRISIS ENEMY OVERWHELMINGLY SUPERIOR IN >- : GUNS AND MUNITIONS ■ . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ! (Rec. July 30, 10.45 p.m.) rm.-- Petrograd, July 30. I ihe newspapers are preparing the public for a new withdrawal, necessitated bv the enemy's overwhelming superiority in guns and munitions They thei resumptionof a Russian offensive will be impossible till tlia mobilisation of the industry which supplies the army with munitions 'o■_ _ ' i : RUSSIAN" OFFICIAL' COMMUNIQUE. n ~ . , ' xr, ' Petrograd, July 30^ Official.—"The enemy at Kozan unsuccessfully attempted to advance bptoeen the-Narew and Ozh. • . «. ''. Tll ® . enem /' S outposts on the left bank of the Vistula were repulsed in the direction of .Gtira, Kalvana, and Groitsky. ■ ''The enemy's continuous attacks on Maydan and north of Gubetszow were repulsed. They - lost enormously. ; "The Austrian, attacks above Sokal were repulsed. 'Six Austrian reeiments crossed the Bug at Kamionka, and captured some of our trenches on the Bug, but were driven back on Wednesday, across the river in disorder. AVo took prisoner 1500 at Sokal and Kamionka. . • GERMAN OFFICIAL' COMMUNIQUE. v, S - at6S: situation north of the Nkme^is^michanged. _ We took 2910 prisoners north-east of Suwajki, after occupying part of the enemy's position. . b 1 "The Russians last'night made repeated' attacks on our front south of the Narew and Nasielsk. All failed, -with, heavy enemy losses ' • + i," T S ? t R - U f im, ?, on of l' 7 ' 28 . attempted' to advance westerly repdsed OTa ' Kalwaria - '' ' Tho * ware attacked and -'.Yesterday, the situation in the southeast was unchanged. AUSTRIAN,OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.. .(Rec. July 30, 9.20 p.m.) 'An Austrian official communique states: "We fortified position on the frontier between Bukowina and Bessarabia. The enemy fled after bloody hand-to-kand fighting, leaving 170 dead. "We captured five hundred of the enemy east of Kamionka is uilSgTdT' 5 attaokS "T Sokal were repulsed - otherwis ® tho situation MILITARY. OPINION ON PLAN OF CA.MPAIGN, • Seuter's Petrograd correspondent says that at the begSmb'g of'ft if' wir Russian military opinion was divided as to whether Warsaw or the Vishilp should be defended. In the upshot, the Russians have gained a war taking up the front they contemplated in 1914. They now await a Fran™ British diversion. When the Duma meets on Sunday-next, the Govnm m 3 I will acquaint the country, with the military, situation;' ' !'. ; HUN REJOICINGS OVER EASTERN SUCCESSES, | .("Times-and Sydney "Sun"-Services.)] .(Rec. July 30, 8.20 p.m.) Th 6 German authorities have ordered an official rejoicing over' on the Eastern fronts. The buildings have been beflagged. The German Press is asserting that the Russian power will shortlv be broken in the most gigantic battle in history, and is sneeringly declaring that there will be no effort by England to redress the situation, "though England will endeavour to avert herself from.the terrible fate which is thrcateninc [ Russia."- - ■

GALE ON RUSSIAN 19-YEAR-OLDS.. .("Times' 1 and Sydney "Sun" Services.). • (Reo. July 30, 8.20 p.m.) . i London, July 29. The Tsar has called to ths colours all men born in 1896—the 19-year-' olds.