GREAT CONFLICT IN GALICIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2500, 29 June 1915, Page 5

GREAT CONFLICT IN GALICIA

' VICTORIES AND REVERSES RUSSIANS FALL BACK HOT FIGHTING ON FRENCH FRONT ASPHYXIATING SHELLS AGAIN : WORKERS AND WAR SUPPLIES The war news to-day leaves the situation in Galicia with battlo honours to both sides. The Russians have vigorously repelled a heavy offensive on one sector of the front. but in the Bobrka-Zaravno sector have been forced to fall back after a stubborn resistance. Nevertheless, the Russian line still remains unbroken, and in the German Press there is a note of anxiety about the general aspect of the situation. All unofficial' message from Petrograd ascribes the "deadend" culmination of the great Aus tro-German offensive as the result of the Russians "cold and calculated strategy." The latter's losses ha to been few compared to those 0 f the enemy. In the Western theatre the French have successfully repelled heavy attacks on their front in tho Argonno and on the Mouse heights, and a significant hint ' of tho successful nature of their a dvance in Alsace is conveyed in the reported exodus of civilians from tho Munster Valley. The Allies' airmou, by exploding a, viaduct, havo destroyed the railway communications between Atlkirch and Mulhau sen. In the Austro-Italian campaign, the warfare lias settled down to siege tactics and trench fighting. . Diplomacy is busy in tho Balkans; Turkey's efforts to influence Bulgaria aro reported to have failed, while in the Rumanian Chamber tho' opposition sections have adopted a resolution in favour of intervention on the side of the Entente Powers.