Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

LOOKED WELL ON PAPER. THE TASK BEFORE THE ENEMY. Unitud Peem Absooutioh. London, May 25. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports that the Kaiser on Saturday left Jaroslav. journeying westward. He was in the deepest dejection. General Hindenberg warned him that the plan for a terrific blow on a short front looked well on paper, but the Russians would likely entangle the troops. After weeks of struggling General Mackensen has now abandoned as hopeless the task of extricating the Germans on a two hundred mile front. The Germans have no troops to resist the Russian advance on Pilitza, where thousands of prisoners are taken daily.

It is unofficially stated that the immense accumulations of shells at Cracow iorHhe advance have so decreased that the Germans are obliged to economise, and their advantage has immediately vanished.

RUSSIANS MAKE PROCRESS

Petrograd, May 25

Official: Our front on the Lower Dubissa has made great progress towards West Suipsey. We forced the enemy to the defensive almost on the whole front in Galicia.

Our offensive on the left bank of the Dneister has developed into a great success. We captured 40 officers, 2200 men and several machineguns, besides much material.

SPLENDID RUSSIAN PROCRESS.

GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE.

The High Commissioner reports ui>der date London, May 25th, 1.50 p.m.:— . In the Shayli region, the Russians occupy a wide front on a line ot the rivers Visdava, Veuta, Dubissa, aiul Siuf.

in Galicia the enemy, forced by coun-ter-attacks, passed gradually to the defensive along almost the whole front, except in sectors near Vartihol, Padyoline and Gussakuvo, where on Saturday evening they unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Russia is. iTlie offensive, which opened on Saturday and is being pursued along the left baids- oif the Dneister, developed on Sunday with great success, notwithstanding counter-attacks. The Russians captured, alter a light, the new and old villages of Bourchitze, tUe villages of lehehnikuff and Holobzve, and of the village of Obstwve. In the course of the day, we took 2200 prisoners, 40 officers, dozens of machine guns, and a quantity of war material.

in the trans-Dneister region, there was a lull, except hetAveen Achetchva and Lomnitza, where the enemy during the night of Sunday made a fruitless attempt to attack.