STILL RETREATING
RUSSIANS GIVE GROUND T ■ OBSTINATELY
HEAVY REARGUARD FIGHTING
GERMAN PEACE OFFER RUMOURED
FAILURE OF REAL OBJECTIVE
MUTINY IN GERMAN GARRISONS
The news from the Eastern theatre to-day shows that, the German pressure en certain portions of the Russian line is still being strongly forced, and further retirements are reported, with heavy rearguard fighting. The military situation is interestingly canvassed by competent observers, the sum and substance of tlio various contentions being that the Russians are in 110 danger from tho terrific Gorman artillery drive, but tliero is a- distinct menace involved in the German strategy, which aims at the enveloping of the Russian armies. There is very little news from either the Western or the Austro-Italinn front, and the reports from the Dardanelles theatro disclose little activity. Diplomatic scheming and counter-scheming is going ou early and late in the various Balkan capitals. A forecast of tho United States' Navy ami Army programme shows that the American Government is preparing to face tlio quostion of placing the nation's land and sea defences on a practical footing,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2536, 10 August 1915, Page 5
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177STILL RETREATING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2536, 10 August 1915, Page 5
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