Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 279, 4 May 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

THE CZAR'S MOVEMENTS. GERMANS' HEAVY TASK. AUSTRIAN TROOPS SURRENDER. London, Mav 2. Tim Czar's visit to the borders of Bukovina 'is politically (significant. It indicates Russia's firm intention to extend her dominion into territories which were formerly Russian. T'ie Observer's Pctrograd correspondent states the Germans hoped to utilise the several weeks' interval when big operations on most of the Russian fronts would he impossible, for sending overwhelming forces to Flanders. The Russians frustrated this, and Cennanv| has 'been reduced to a demonstrative display of activity in lenders. Shoals of Germans continue to fill the reinforcements to the Carpathans, where the are suffering daily increasing losses. The Russians.' strategic positions compel them to attack unceasingly, with hourlv lessening hopes.

Geneva, iMav 2. Two companies of Austrian infantry without officers entered Italian territory at Schio, carrying a white flag. They were interned. GERMAN ACTIVITIES. Received May 3, 11.30 p.m. Petrograd, May 3. Official: Germans are occupying the Sliavli district. German patrols appeared near Libau and German torpedoers visited the Gulf of Riga.

Tlie Russian objective is Silesia, whicli Cracow bars, writes Mr. Hilaire Bclloe. The two danger points are Warsaw and Cracow, and the real effort of the Germans and their allies must be to take Warsaw, and to prevent the Russians from advancing from Cracow into Silesia. "Silesia must be saved," nay, Mr. Belloc, writing on the- task before'the Germans. "If Silesia r?ocs, the safest, the most remote from the sea, the most independent of imports of the German industrial regions, is gone. But most important of all, Silesia is what Belgium is not, what Alsace-Lorraine is not, what East Prussia is not—it is the strategic key. Who liolds Silesia commands the twin divergent roads, to Berlin northwards, to Vienna southwards. Who liolds Silesia liolds the Moravian Gate. Who holds Silesia turns the line of the Oder and [Kisses behind the barrier fortress whicli Germany has built upon her eastern front. Who holds Silesia strikes his wedge in between the German-speaking north and the German-speaking south, and joins hands with the .Slavs of Bohemia. For a hundred reasons Silesia must be saved."