GREAT ACTIVITY BY ALLIES' AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 5

GREAT ACTIVITY BY ALLIES' AIRMEN

(Rec. July 16, 9.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, July 16. Tho Allies' airmen continue to actively bomb the German trenches. English airmen destroyed an ammunition depot, between Roulers and Yortryk, find four aeroplanes bombed the casing for officers at Menin, several being killed or wounded! Airmen bombed the Zeebrugge breakwater on Wednesday morning. THE WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT MILITARY SITUATION REVIEWED RUSSIAN ATTACK ON BESSARABIAN FRONTIER, . Paris, July 15. 'Advices from Czernowitz, tho capital of Bukowina, state that the Russians are making a new attack on the Bessarabian frontier, and that 'sanguinary. figfrtjPS is in progress. GERMAN, OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. London, July IS. Berlin communique states:—"TK > kattld l-Ji tho neighbourhood of Prasnvj? continue, • -".We captured Prasnyz, which the HussfStts^lia^ strongly, fortified.'* MAGNIFICENT, HABVESTS 'IN RUSSIA', (Reo. July. 16, 8.15 p.m.) 4 ; : Petrograd, July 16. The Minister of 'Agriculture announces that there has been a magnificent harvest. With her roserves of foodstuffs, Russia is .ready to continue the struggle for years, and is able also to provide tho necessary reserves for the armies of all her Allies. , i .' -Mj-; .... . A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S MOTOR RIDE ' HUNDREDS OF MILES ALONG THE RUSSIAN FRONT* .("Times" and Sydney "Sun"- Service?).' i (Rec. July 16, 9 p.m.) London, July 16. The "Times" correspondent with tho Russian forces spent .three days with the Russian'third army, which has seen t'ho hardest lighting. "They entered Galicia at the extreme east last year, lighting around Lemberg, Grodek, and Przemysl, and thence, in the Carpathians, capturing, is the commander informed me, 300,000 prisoners. Sinco then they have been lighting back with similar determination and stubbornness. \ > "I've, motored hundreds of miles along the Russian front, observing advanced positions, talking to officers of'all ranks, who. stated that the Russians have inflicted losses greater than they have received during tho Galician retirement, ■ which was conducted lilto a manoeuvre. The Austrian attack which has just been delivered on this portion of the line failed, with enerav losses totalling 3000. ' . THE CROSSING OF THE SAN,' 'AND AFTER., '' ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. July 16, 9 p.m.) London, July 16. xhe Press Bureau has issued the following statement:— . "After the crossing of the San, the Germans thought that they were through the Russian lines, but the gap was filled instantly from the reserves. At another spot the Germans launched their cavalry through what seemed to be an empty space; without delay the tide was stemmed by tho Cossacks. "Nest day, everywhere, fresh troops' were arriving, and measures being taken to render a repetition of the earlier losses unlikely. The Russians were 600 yards from the Germans, and had orders to advance in little stages. Twenty men crawled forward together, scraped up a protection breast-high, • and then established themselves, while the Germans pelted them with shrapnel. . . "Prisoners stated that despite their successes in Galicia. tho mood of the Germans is nothing like the first great outburst of enthusiasm."