NEW RUSSIAN COMMANDER

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEW RUSSIAN COMMANDER

The new Commander-in-Chief of the Russian south-western armie<, Gtaor-.il Bru-iloff, played an part in the victorious Russian campaign in Grlic'a during the first six months c! the war, and the army under his command covered itself with glory during the great retreat.' After the fall of I.emberg on .June 22, 1915, most of the weight of the enemy's attacks t'o'i upon the forces under him. It was lie who had done mest of the work in capturing Lemberg in September, 191-1. nnl it was his troops who stormed +he ramparts of the Carpathians and invaded the Hungarian plain. Even when he had been compelled to retire from the mountain line to the Dne'ster front, lie had trapped Linsingcn's army, and put at least half of his effectives out of action. His last great victory at Zuravno had I een achieved just after the lons of Przcmysl by Ivan, off's troops early in Juno. 1915. Vow 0: the enemy troops that crossed the Dniester returned to their main armies, and by the middle of June the Herman annj under Linsingen was exhausted. General Brusiloff always contr vc.l to make his decisive attacks when the enemy troops faced them with their hacks to the river and with only ;i few pontoon bridges boh ml them when they retreated, It was l-y these nnirhilating tactics that he had wrecked Linsingcn's army so completely that Luising n's name di-sippe.ued from l>ot!i the German and Austrian eommtiniqu s. The strength of his army and the tennis of General Brusiloff shattered t!ie forces brought agaist it, and became th.e pivot on which all the other Russian forces swung >n tl'.e-r long movement of retirement.