NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2662, 6 January 1916, Page 5

NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

ENEMY PUSHED BACK AT SEVERAL POINTS THE BARALONG INCIDENT SIR EDWARD GREY'S EFFECTIVE ANSWER ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON WEST FRONT GERMAN HOWITZER BATTERIES SILENCED The publication of Lord Derby's report throws interesting light . upon the recruiting position in Great Britain. • Nearly three million men were dealt with in the canvass, and of these 831,012 are available as recruitsi A total of 651,000 singlo men not engaged in essential industries did not attest, and Lord Derby recommends that compulsion should be resorted to in the ca.se of such of these as are fit for service in order to redeem Mr. Asquith's pledge to married men. A strike in opposition to compulsion is threatened by the "president of the South Wales Miners' Union. The Russians are still pressing the enemy hard on their southern front, and are gaining ground towards Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowina, and at other points. They have also effected heavy captures of prisoners and repelled . enemy counter-attacks'with heavy I.oss to the attapkers.' The substance is given of the German memorandum to Britain regarding the sinking of the submarine which torpedoed the Anco'na, and of Sir Edward Grey's reply. 'Some interesting developments are reported in the Balkans, and there is evidence of a continued stir of fighting on the Western front. Rumours are current regarding Lord Kitchener. ■It is suggested that he may vacate tho post of Secretary for War to become Viceroy of India, or to take up the supreme command in the Near East.