GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 1 July 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE GREAT BEAR. RUSSIA’S IMMENSE RESOURCES. HER STRENGTH NOT YET TOUCHED. (Times and Sydney San Services.) LONDON, June 21). An Italian cfllcer with the Russians points out that the retreat was solely due t<> (lie insufficiency cf railway corn, m imitations and munitions. Russia possesses unlimited resources cf men and material. The 1015 class, comprising GOO,OOO, have scarcely started for the front. Th e 1916 class have been called to the colours by the end cf the present month, while the whole cf the secern! category of troops, numbering 6,000,000 have been untouched. The day the wall of Austro-German bayonets gives way slightly th e Russians will inexorably resume their march forward. The German victory Is sterile, and has no to-morrow.

THE ENEMY’S ENORMOUS LOSSES (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, June 29. German prisoners of war at Kieff speak in terror of their enormous loss, es in Galicia. Half their effectives have gene, and hav e been replaced by forces brought from Belgium.