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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 5

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RUSSIANS HOLD TIE ENEMY NEW BATTLE DEVELOPING NEW ZEALANDERS' SUCCESSFUL ; LITTLE'RAID FREie'CRUISEE SHELLS JAFFATWO. Zeppelins RAID THE EAST COAST • " ONLY ONE RETURNS' \ : Accounts given to-day of the Eastern campaign arc much more encouraging than they have been for some time past.. The Russian re •treat from the Warsaw salient has been carried out with brilliant success. According to one correspondent, tho management of the retreat will provide a model for future text books on tlio art of .war. • In, the Baltic Provinces tlie Russians have won a local victory which may havo important effects in strengthening their position in that area. Further south the Germans are still besieging the fortress of , Kovno, which they have several times unsuccessfully attacked. In Southern Poland the Russians have'broken the impetus of General von Mackensen's advance, and are holding him in check. As a whole the outlook is so promising that the opinion is put forward-that the German invasion is Hearing its limits—that the worst fury of the storm has passed. The idea i.-> still entertained in somo quarters, however, that the Germans may attempt an advance against .Petrograd. Somo interesting reports deal with operations at the Dardanelles. In tho Western theatre another unsuccessful German attack in tno Argonne Forest is reported. The Italians are. shown to be steadily developing . their offensive against the Austrians.' Zeppelins 'li'ave . again, raided the East Coast of England, killing and injuring a,' lumber of civilians, and damaging hoHses, and one is believed ,to have been damaged by gunfire.