WHY GERMANY STRUCK AT POLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 170, 19 July 1915, Page 5

WHY GERMANY STRUCK AT POLAND.

HUNGARY CONSIDERING AN INDEPENDENT PEACE.

WOULD HAVE MEANT ENTIRE COLLAPSE OF AUSTRIA

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, July IS.

The. London "Times" correspondent with the Russian forces states that effective work by the Russian cavalry was largely responsible for the German movements in Galicia. The enormous capture of prisoners by the Russian-, together with the advance threatening the Hungarian plains, brought about a condition so bad that Hungary was considering making an independent peace \s this would have resulted in the entire collapse of Austria, the Germans were forced to come to the rescue with a colossal stroke in Galicia.