RUSSIA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 92, 20 July 1916, Page 2

RUSSIA

THE MARCH ON lEMBERG. RUSSIAN CAIN OF 32 MLZS. Press Association-Copyright, Austra- ! lian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July I s - M Marcel Hutin claims that the last serious obstacles in General Sakhavoft's march on Lemberg have been °Tundav's victory resulted in a gain ;pf thirty-two miles against the German troops. GERMAN RETREAT GENERAL. CENTRAL POWERS ON DEFENSIVE. London, July 18. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent" has received -a-'high significant Petrogfa'd telegram, announcing .that a general retreat on the hast front Ims commenced: The Austro-Germans are retiring, laying waste the country and burning villages. . ~ The telegram is one o.i many indications that General Haig's offensive has aroused the first tears of the German 'General Staff, and there is a suggested possibility that they must revert to the purely defensive, in order to tsecure tolerable terms of peace. General Hindenburg has already hem summoned to the West front to discuss the situation with the Kaiser and General Falkenhayn. ] t is understood that General H:ndenburg has been given complete control on the East front, including the Austrian's. General Hindenburg's appointment has made essential the carrying out of the shortening of the Kast front, which is already m pro-

grcss. . , , Russian experts point out that General Hindenburg's sector in the Riga district is now organised for solely defensive warfare-. The trenches are of concrete, with ten to twelve lines of wive defences, near which the mines are laid. The Germans are still budding a series of field railways, connecting Mitau and Windau with the other railways. The organisation at General Hindenburg's rear represents the last word in military science as regards the rapid transference of troops and the supply of munitions and food.