Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

BATTLE IN GALiGIA. ENORMOUS KOUCKB ENGAGED. , IMPORTANT RU.SSIAN .SUCCESSES. Received May 23, 2 p.m. • Petrograd, .May 2Z, I ft is estimated that nearly a 'million and a half troops are engaged on each , Side in the battle in Galicia. The Germans have four thousand guns. Official:. The battle in Galicia continues with great desperation. The enemy extended his forces somewhere on the right bank of the San in the centre line, but we realised important successes on the left bank in the direction of the Vistula and in tiie direction of Pijzemysl, GREAT GERMAN EFFORT. CRACK REGIMENTS ENGAGED. A 31 ARK FOR THE RUSSIANS. Received May 23, 3.50' p.m. Loudon, .May 22. -Hit* Morning Post's lVtrograd corrcspondent says the German main onset , is in tile, centre of Galieia on a fifty-five- | mile front, where they have concentrated half a million troops, the llower of the German army, including the various crack regiments from trance. Every yard is disputed day and night. The momentum of the Macedonian phalanx was irresitiblo, hut it oil'ered a terrible mark for the Russian artillery. There has been no such wholesale sacrifice since 13zura. Iho heart of the phalanx strongly holds the right bank of the San, and the remainder are still on the left bank. The situation remains grave. The Germans continue to have the best, of the struggle, but there is now a feeling that lack of mobility is increasing the difficulty of maintaining at full pressure the supplies. Several hundred guns were left

GERMAN THRUST WEAKENING. RUSSIAXS KHIM.'LSE ATTACKS. ■ POISOXED GAS ICS IXTIIODCCED. Received May 24, 12.15 a.m. Petrograd, May 24. Oflieial: Tile enemy made a thrust at the Galician front on Friday, but there are now signs that it is weakening. The defensive was assumed on several sections. i\Ye assumed the offensive on the left bank of the lower San and carried several villages and repulsed a counter-attack in the direction of Xisko. We carried in the enemy's salient on the right bank of the San the village of Ignatse, northward of Jaroslav. The enemy eastward of Sussakow carried a portion of our trenches, the Russians counter-attacking and taking 100U ■prisoners. The enemy's attacks remain'«d on the Galician frontier, after enormous losses, of a more isolated character. The Russians took hundreds of prisoners in the Slonsko district and txvo enemy companies surrendered. The enemy on the Xarev front carried out partial counter-attacks to accustom the troops to the use of poisonous gas. The enemy i s reinforcing the defeated elements at Opatow from Galicia.

BLACK SEA FLEET'S WORK. Received May. 23, 3 ..10 p.m. I'etrograd, iVlay 22. Official: The Black Sea licet "disembarked troops on the 20th. despite resistance, and destroyed landing and loading places east of Eregli. AI'STRIAX LOSSES. I'etrograd, Mayi 21. Tlio enemy's losses in the Carpathians for three weesk, including- 40,1KK) prisonens, are officially esitmated at onefourth the total strength. Although the enemy lost only twenty guns, several hundred were abandoned in the old lines. MURDER OF RUSSIAN CONSUL. GERMANS HURLED TIACK. RUSSIAN ADVANCE. London, May 21. Alexander Kaver, the Russian Consul at Ispahan (Persia) was assassinated hy a gang who were directed hy German agents. The Times' I'etrograd correspondent statcK that the Russian front .south of the l'ilica has been adjusted to fit in with the line on the San. The enemy's advance columns near Opoczno and Kielee have been hurled back, and enabled the Russians to take up new positions. The enemy's main strength is north of l'rzemysl. The Austrian* have been regrouped in llu'kovina, where the Russians continue defeating them. The Prussian Guards, Saxons, and ISavariaus lost heavily in West Calieia. The enemy show increased activity in the north, conveying war supplies and long-range guns, and constructing a railway on the llaltie coast. The Russians, fi Siting stubbornly, advanced on the Mitau line from AVindau to Dubissa. (in the Riga district), on a front of sixtysix miles, hurling back the Germans a tremendous distance with enormous hi'-sos.