THE FIGHTING IN GALICIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 8 June 1915, Page 5

THE FIGHTING IN GALICIA.

GEEMANS USE GAS WHOLESALE. A TEEEIBLE INDICTMENT. PETROGRAD, June 7. The enemy'B Leng-San front is IS miles long, from the village of Stany on the left bank of the Leng, to Zarmina, ten miles southward of, Eudnik. A determined night attack, intended to turn the Eussian right on the BzuraRawka front, was admirably adapter to German chemical warfare. Dense poison clouds were launched on the 30th, the smell being perceptible for 20 miles. Hardly a horse, eow or fowl in the district were left alive. In the villages numbers of children and vomen were killed. Horses in Eussian baggage and ammunition trains stampeded or were killed. Eeserve regiments with muffled faces, rushed up and saved the trenches. The Germans cut their way through the entanglements, but were surprised by an appfflKng fire. The attack utterly failed. The gassed patients are suffering terribly in the hospitals. Their blood has turned to a watery fluid. RUSSIANS REPULSE AUSTRIANS. PETROGEAD, June 7. Official: The enemy, pursuing the offensive towards Mosciska, was subjected to heavy losses. Russians crossed to the right bank of the Pruth between Delatyn and Kolomea, and repulsed a series of counterattacks by large Austrian reserves. Correspondents narrate that the Russian army between the Pilica and the Vistula, while withdrawing to new lines inflicted losses of 30,000 upon the Austro-Germans. AUSTRIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES. LONDON, June 7. An Austrian commuique says that the Italians suffered considerable losses iat Monte Negro. Three hundred were killed during the enemy's attempt to cross the Shonzo, near Sagrado. Southward of Gradisca they were repulsed with heavy losses. RUSSIAN TRANSPORT SUNK. ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED. PETEOGRAD, June 7. ' A German submarine in the Gulf of | Riga sank the transport Yencsei. Thir-ty-two were saved. Russian mines or submarines sank ot damaged three of the enemy's vessels. THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN. THE TURKS SHAKEN. SHIPPING SWEPT FROM SEA OF MARMOEA. LONDON, June 7. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says the heavy casualties which are arriving are weakening the Turkish resolve. The submarines have swept shipping from the Sea of Marmora, adding to the Turkish difficulties in bringing up reinforcements and supplies. The Turks are feverishly strengthening the fortificati ns at Chatalja, where two hundred newly arrived German officers are stationed. AUSTRIAN SHIPS DAMAGED. ..-.., ROME, June ?.,.. The Messagero states that during, the aerial bombardment ."' of' Pola," two Austrian battleshipa ; . which: : Weinman oeuvring to escape, collided. One was badly damaged. The warship also struck and sank a destroyer.