Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 30 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

RUSSIANS IN G LSG! A.

UNAFFECTED BY RETREAT

Times and Sydney Sun Service (Received 8.0 a.m. )

London. June 29

A correspondent in Petrogrnd says ;—Eye-witnesses of the recent lighting in Galicia relate inmuneralile episodes showing that the morale of the troops is not one whit affected by 'the continuous retreat. Wherever the artillery sufficed,, the Russians • easily withstood the attacks and drove back the enemy. There is a tendency in some quarters to attibute the Russian withdrawal from Galicia

superiority, some newspapers estito the enemy being in overwhelming mate that the Austro-Germaiis on this front number four million. Such statements are obviously unfounded, and the figures grossly exaggerated, but even if correct they arc far below the total at the disposal of the Russians.

NEW RUSSIAN PLANS. FORCES REGROUPED IN GALICIA UHITlin Pont Abbociatiok. (Received 9 a.in.) Petrograd, June 29. Officers on the General Staff, state that a satisfactory re-grouping of the forces has been carried out in Galicia, and that they , are now ready to oppose effectively any further incursion into Galicia or Southern Russia.

THE USE OF DUM-DUMS. RUSSIAN REPLY TO ALLEGATIONS. United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Petrograd, June 29. After repeating the denial to the Germans’ allegations that Russians were using dumdums, a communique states: Explosive bullets have been found on Austro-German prisoners, and also in the enemy’s machine gun equipment, and these were immediately fired at the enemy, but none other.