RUSSIAN ARMIES SAFE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8214, 11 August 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN ARMIES SAFE.

INDICATIONS OF THE ATTACK WEAKENING. LONDON. August 10. The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent says higher military authorities regard the Russian Vistula army as out of danger. The troops are taking up positions without precipitation in the rear, and are not at the moment threatened. There are growing indications that the impetus of the Austrb-German attack is weaken* ing. The failure to repeat Friday's attempt to rush Kovna and Osowietz is evidence that the enemy has not a large force in these regions. News from Vilna states that the Russian artillery at Kovna wrought fearful havoc. Prisonei^s state that lately there has-been, a deficiency in food and fodder. Soldiers are exhausted by continual marching, and some, unable to stand, refuse food, and-.beg only for permission to sleep. ' The Russian position in tho Baltic area is firm. The Russians h.iv<»-pushed back the Germans almost to Mitau. The latter have shown no inclination to resume the aggressive. It is believed they have drawn upon these forces to strengthen the attack eastward of Poniewiez, where the battle hangs in the balance, but the Germans have made no headway. The main enemy pressure continues on the Narew line, also in front and j on both sides of the Vieprz, where the I fighting favours the Russians. ! There are indications that the Austro-German forces hove small faith in the permanence of their guns. A refugee from Galicia reports that the Austrians are not restoring their civil administration there.