THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

FURTHER RETIREMENT

TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE ON THE NAREW

WITH THE COLONIALS

VIVID STORY FROM GAUiPOLI

BELGIAN WORKERS DEFY 'invaders'':

GREAT STRIKE OF MECHANICS

The war news to-day discloses a terrific conflict on the Narew • front in Poland) and a.further retirement on the Russian front covering Ivangorod.- The Russians liave been dislodged from tlio LomzaOstralenka line, but tiie heavy fighting for the passages of the .Narew lias riot yet begun. The enemy lias changed the direction of his at- . tack in that region ,to the nort'h-east. Correspondents writing to the Italian Press suggest that the .Grand Dulco is preparing a- surprise • coup, and tliat a dramatic change in the situation may bo expected shortly. There is very little news from tko Western front, or from , tlie Austro-Italian theatre. A sidelight on tho situation in the West ■ is the great striko of Belgian mechanics in the German occupied territories of Belgium. War Declaration Day has been observed in the Old Country and ail over tho Empire by a striking outburst of patri- - otic ardour. Tliero--has been a memorable service at St.-Paul's Cathedral, and great public meetings in the- principal centres in Great Britain. The ringing utterances of Mr. Balfour at tho Opera House, Kingsway, have been : cabled at soipo .lengt'h," and they make inspiring reading. Mr. Ashmead liartlett, the English war correspondent, sends , a vivid story of tho doings of the Now Zealanders and Australians . at Gallipoli. ■