DRAMATIC SUCCESS OF RUSSIAN STRATEGY.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2840, 3 August 1916, Page 5

DRAMATIC SUCCESS OF RUSSIAN STRATEGY.

ENEMY ABANDONING STRONG BASES. : QDIET DAY ON THE SOMME. DEUISCHLANB SAILS, ■■■■ TMNS4ILAII SUBMARINE .;.'■;■ ": BUNT BEGINS. : THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN r. '".'. FRYATT. It has been an uneventful day on the Somme, but on the Russian front there is enough and to spare in-the way of interest. Brusiloff's Urilliaiit strokes are rapidly attaining full fruition, and the culmination of'his strategy is seen to-day "in tho hopeless disorganisation of the AustroGerman opposition! in Volhynia and Galicia. General von Bothmer's army is in serious danger of envelopment. A Dainocletia.ii sword is suspended over the point where'tho Austrian line junctions- with tho Germanssevered from their moral and military ■ support, tho utter collapse of the Austrians 13 safely predicted. As it is, the Germans, wo aro told to-day, have enough to do to take care .of themselves, and tho abandonment of Kovel, Vladimir Voliuski, and several other important bases is reported. There is a general exodus from Lcmberg and other Galician cities towards Cracow. There is a vague hint of 'a big ofi'ensivo against Petrograd by tho __ German forces on the northern flank. On tho Italian front tho Austrians have been forced to quit one of the strongest passes in tho barrier to tho Upper Trchtino. German wa-rsliips have been sighted in the North Sea, manoeuvring with Zeppelin scouts—it is a Norwegian story from CopenVhogen. Tho German trans-Atlantic submarine,Deutechland, has sailed on her return, voyage from Baltimore, but whether she will venture beyond tho three-iiiilo limit, and thus inaugurate a most exciting huo and cry by the British warships, remains to bo seen. v '