Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 28 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

LEMBERC AND AFTER.

SOME NEWSPAPER TALK.

"UNTIL RUSSIA'S ARMIES ARE

DESTROYED."

(Received 9.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 27

The Cologne Ga/.ette says it is extraordinary that the Russians should still be battling in the neighbourhood of Lemberg. General Morant, in the Tageblatt, says the taking of Lemberg is insufficient for the Austro-German forces, which must continue operations until the Russian armies are destroyed.

PETROCRAD PLEASED. RUSSIAN ARMY UNBROKEN. CERMANS ON DNIESTER IN TROUBLE. (Received 9.10 a.'m.) Petrograd, June 27. Fight weeks' tremendous onslaughts failed to conquer the Russians in Galicia. though they temporarily retreated. Russia has inflicted astounding losses on her assailants and her own casualties are comparatively insignificant. The Germans Mackenzen and Liusingen were out-gen-erallr-d. inasmuch as the Russian armies are still unbroken and hold together a line outside the enemy's. Meanwhile the Germans on the left bank of the Dniester have been defeated. German leaders in this region are impatient at the success of the Russians' cold and calculated strategy, and when expelled from the villages on the Dniester bank, worked hard to throw pontoons across the river. The Russian's devastating arteillery fire retained complete control and the indications are that the Germans employed on the Dniester front, unless they quickly extricate themselves, are likely to encounter a series of inglorious reverses. The Germans have begun a violent artillery outbreak at Wirballen, on the Kovno front. The Russians recovered the ground lost at Orjitz, and captured five machine guns.

THE GRAND DUKE'S ARMY.

WHAT IT MET IN PRUSSIA.

(Received 10.25 a.m.)

Petrograd, June 27

Recently, one of the Grand Duke's 'guests, who was two months at the front says, the Germans put in years of preparation. Besides creating a network of military railways they caused farmers to construct and locate buildings to serve for defence throughout East Prussia. Farmhouses at all occupy strategic points are invariably built with heavy walls and small windows towards Russia, and many are connected by secret telephones. The Russians at the outset of the war were surprised to find the enemy's first shot strike well-concealed batteries. In entrenching there is nothing compared to the Russian, and the army is improving as the war proceeds. The Russians are also enormously popular.

CERMANS WANT WARSAW. Dnixbd Press Association. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 27. In connection with the threatened attack on Warsaw, several trains with heavy guns have left Essen for Bzura.

THE EVACUATION OF LEMBERC. GERMAN PLANS ON PAPER. KAISERS BOMBAST. (Received 1.50 p.m.) Petrograd, June 27. Prior to the Austrian re-occupation of Lemberg, the males from fifteen to fifty years of age left the city. Tho Russians removed the grain, oil, and copper supplies, and also the contents of the museums and galleries. According to documents found on prisoners, the Kaiser and Von Hindenborg assured the troops that Warsaw would be entered on June 28th, Galicia cleared of Russians by June 30, and then peace would be concluded with Russia.