RUSSIANS HIT BACK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS HIT BACK

« — FIERCE: BATTLES, ALONG THE CHANGES i fflGi COMMANDS FRESH ADVANCE IN , GALLIPOLI ; > - ,'VV AFTEE TWO DAYS' SEVERE . , FIGHTING HURRIED MEETING OF BRITISH cabinet : ; ■ SIGNS OF ACTION IN THE WEST ■ THE PIRATES' PROMISE The Russians have /cored heavily in Eastern Galicia, according to, ' ■ . to-day's reports of the defeat of General Pilanz'er, and right along the whole of the Eastern front the Germans, although advancing in certain :v -sectors,'- being severely handled. A message announcing certain - chaiiges in the. Bmssian higher commands; involving the transfer of the Grand Dice's Chief of Staff to the-post of Assistant-Viceroy in tho Caucasus, probably means a good deal more than meets the eye. On > Gallipoli the Allies have had, another two days of severe fighting, resulting in an advance over new ground; the colonials are stated to have V.occupied the/advanced positions. There are no important developments' , in tho Balkans. Rumania to the enemy her reasons for : . the strict; frontier .blockade of German supplies intended for Turkey. . .The V. estern fiont, which has been most unaccountably, calm for days past, is beginning to bristle with the signs of big events. There Ms ' . been:a of the British Cabinet, and a sig- " nificant absence of khaki from tho streets of London, two indications ■ which have quickened public interest iu tho Western theatre. f Count ' Bernstorflr lias put Germany's promise to modify her submarine warfare to the point of decency in writing—another historic scrap of paper. The ; iljepoifcd to havo. mado himself ill ..through .' "overwork,; and'-Has <;b'een i rfdvised .'by .hisfdoctors' to take a holiday^- . 'other message which suggests moVo. tlian nieets th'o eye.