RUSSIANS IN ACTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3119, 25 June 1917, Page 5

RUSSIANS IN ACTION

I . 4 FIGHTING IN GALICIA ARMY AGAIN IN GOOD ORDER THRILLING ITALIAN ~- AUSTRIANS OUSTED .FROM ALPINE FORTRESS INNER HISTORY OF AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS,

Tli£ most .heartening news for some time appears in the war dispatches from'the Bussian theatre to-day. According to the German communiques, active hostilities have been resumed'on the Galician and Smorgon fronts,'while ia Asia Minor the- Russians havo initiated offensive operations. General Brusiloff, recently appointed to the . Bussian Com-mand-in-Chief,' issues a gratifying report on the- improvement which has taken place in. the morale of tho army during the last six weeks. The soldierg, ho 6ays, havo como to view tho situation of their country in a. truer perspective, desertions have practioally ceased, and the realisation has come to them that it is their stern duty to save their nation from the invader. In this belief they ha vo just been hardened by a shower of v cynical messages from their enomy' s ■ airmen, stating that fraternising on tho front, having accomplished th at which the Germans intended—the reinforcing of the.- Western armies from tho' Eastern front—is , now to ' cease, and that Russians will bo sho ton sight. The Austrian political crisis is the subject of an interesting story by the' "Daily Chronicle" correspondent, who has learned from inside sources Bomething of the high political game in which Count Tisza played and lost. The correspondent asserts that Tisza, who is credite d with having taken a prominent part in precipitating the war, under went a remarkable change of view in December last, when he realised that the Austro-German schemes for world-power were doomed to failure. Hβ then played for peace, and held' conferences with the young Emperor, but the Empress warned/ Berlin, with tho result that Austria is now moro than ever, under' the heel of Germany. On the Western front there is no material change in the situation. The Germans continue to launch heavy and violent attacks on tho French line, to little or no p urpoie. The story of the Italians' most recent success ia the Trentino is told by Mr. Percival Gibbon in a thrilling dispatclj! The difficulties that confronted the Kalians in forcing "upHill" the positions held by the A. ustiians on commanding heights are almost-past belief, but they have surmounted these with dogged persistence, and are slowly ousting th e enemy from every vantage point at present held by him in the Trentino,