BIG BATTLE DEVELOPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 5

BIG BATTLE DEVELOPING.

THE FIERCEST OF THE WAR. London, May 2(1. The Petrograd correspondent 'of the London Daily News says that the battle on the San is developing into the fiercest of t'ie war. 'three million men are attacking and counter-attacking dailv along the entire front. The Kaiser is personally directing the operations, and a great flock of German aeroplanes is taking part. The Russians shot four airmen. General Jlindcnlmrg states, that the stupendous slaughter is due to the solid phalanxes the Kaiser ordered to cross the river north of Jnroslav, The Germans hold only twenty miles between Opatow and Kolomea. They have been fastened to the right bank owing to the liussian successes above and below t'lem. The Germans are moving in close ordvr like the troops of ancient, Home. The San Is flooded with German blood. Amsterdam, .May 2(1. ; General Mackensen, after severe fighting, captured Swieck, south-cast of Radymno. We. forced a crossing of the San after the Austrian* had stormed the bridge-head. Further north we reached the district east of Laszke.