SITUATION OBSCURE.
LONDON, July 26. The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the situation remains obscure. The battle-line is advancing and receding at different points, ■ and neither side is decisively successful. : lt: is ''authoritatively, computed'that the recent blows were inflicted ;.(>]> Russia by 70 German and 48 Austrian -divi\sionS;:and four' German and 11 Austrian cavalry brigades. Largo bodie/yvof. Austro-Gerinan Landsturni are engaged. The enemy, between the Vistula and the Bug, numbers 750,000 men, two-thirds being German. Four army corps are against the line Novo Georgievsk-Ivangorod, which fortresses are not besieged, nor yet the target for heavy artillery. It is thought possible the enemy will endeavour .to oontain these fortresses with a curtain of troops, reserving his main forces for. field operations. It is' hinted that;, the advancing enemy at Kovno will soon be stub-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8202, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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