HEAVY BLOWS BY THE RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 14 August 1915, Page 5

HEAVY BLOWS BY THE RUSSIANS

ENORMOUS LOSSES INFLICTED A GERMAN OFFENSIVE ' • \ " IN FLANDERS \ • \ « i _ SIGNS OF IMPENDING ATTACK : -. ' OUR SUCCESS IN ' GALLIPOLI TRIBUTES TO THE COLONIALS Tlie news from tlio Eastern theatre to-day blio-.vs tliat tho Germans are not having matters all their own way. They havo sustained fearful losses in their massed attacks on' tlio Russian fortress at Kovno—the carnage recalls tlio losses, beforo Liege—'while in tho south, tho Russians, assuming a counter-offensive, havo made hiu'oo of the enemy's ranks. Opinion seems to be growing in favour of tho theory that the Germans aro planning to closo in iipon Potrograd with the idea of further impressing tho noutral nations, but uaval superiority in the_ Baltic will'be one of the conditions of success in such an enterprise. In tho Western theatre the only item of note is a message indicating an impending assault , by tho Germans on tlie Ypres-La Basseo line. There is suggestive evidence of this in the large number of desertions from tho German Army in Flanders. Tlioro is practically 110 news from tlio Austro-Italian theatro. There are 110 fresh developments in Gallipoli. The Allies, it is state have discovered the vulnerable point in the Turkish defences, and aro concentrating somo energy' upon it. An alarming condition of 1 things is reported from Constantinople, where typhus is raging. The Turks are fevorishly strengthening the defences of their capital. The Italian Press unanimously praises the gallantry of the Australians and Now Zealanders at Anzao Bay, and from tho tenor of tho statements the recent fighting seems to have'been of a particularly desperate character, calling for dash and reckless bravery, A British armed liner has been sunk in tho North Sea. ... '