The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1915. THE WAR'S PROGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 55, 5 July 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1915. THE WAR'S PROGRESS.

There can lie no doubt .whatever but that our Russian Allies have been temporarily checked in their offensive at this time, and are stubbornly retiring further from the Galician frontier, but as an unbroken army which is fighting a tremendous rearguard action and inflicting enormous loss on the Austro-Germans. That Russia has been compelled to

take this course is not altogether unexpected. If the Hunnish hordes have gained any real success in the movement, which in any case is but temporary, it must be credited almost entirely to the network of strategic railways which German cunning laid down long before the war to enable the most rapid mobilisation and transport of troops and munitions of war. Itj is those railways which enabled huge bodies of Germans to be hurled at the Russian Army, and reckless of cost, with the one object of pushing back the Czar’s soldiers before they had reached the plains of Hungary, no sacrifice of human life was considered too great by the German butchers. But the net gain to the enemy is absolutely nothing: Russia is not defeated, and the German Kaiser can no more withdraw Ids troops from the eastern frontier than he could have done a month ago. Russia has but to withdraw at pleasure with her face to the foe until she gets the invader where she wants him. The news of the Baltic Sea engagement is a bright change today, and indicates that Russia’s ships and sailors are as staunch-as are her armies. On all other fronts matters appear to be going well with the Allied forces, and the process of hammering tin l enemy is proceeding very vigorously with decided gains in many places. On the sea the submarine piracy continues in Germany’s favor, but where warships meet warships the Allies are sweeping all Indore them.