HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1915, Page 8

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT

ATTACKS AT HILL 60 AND NEAR ST. JULIEN The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, 3rd May, 3.5 p.m. Sir John French, reporting on the enemy's attacks on Hifl 60 and in the neighbourhood of St. Julien, says, " We lost no ground. " A German aeroplane on Sunday afternoon was chased by one of our machines within rifle range of our trenches, and then brought down by oiir fire." IN THE EASTERN THEATRE LONDON, 3rd May, 2.50 p.m. West of the Niemen, fighting continues. At the village of : Tayenko, on the right of the River Netta,- a. whole company of a German line regiment surrendered. In Galicia, on the night of FridaySaturday, strong Austrian forces opened an offensive in the region of Czenkowice, but the Russian fire forced the enemy to entrench six hundred paces in front of their own trenches. In the Carpathians, the same night, the Russians repulsed attacks near Golowetako and Seneczu. WESTERN GALICIA RUSSIAN FRONT SAID TO HAVE BEEN PIERCED. - (Received May 4, 3' p.m.)' LONDON, 3rd May. A Berlin official -wireless message states that the Archduke Frederick of Austria i» ,at present with -General Yon Mackensen, commanding the AustroGermans, who after bitter fighting pierced the entire Russian front in Western Galicia. The , trophies of victory cannot be even approximately estimated. The enemy is hastily retreating eastwards. The Star comments : "If the Berlin version » accurate the Russian campaign in the Carpathians will be seriously affected, and the position of the Russians advancing on the Hungarian plain exceedingly precarious. There has been an apparent deadlock for many days. Possibly the Germans took tho opportunity to mass reinforcements in Western Galicia." THE DESTROYER ACTION EFFORTS TO SAVE GERMANS. WHAT BECAME OF ENGLISH PRISONERS? i (Received May 4, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 3rd May. The Admiralty states that after the destroyer action on Saturday, strenuous efforts were made to rescue the German sailors. Lientenant Hartnoll jumped into the water to save a German. Two officers and forty-four men were picked up out of fifty-nine. German prisoners state that the Germans previously sank a trawler. They picked up a British lieutenant and two men. When asked what became of them they said, " The prisoners were below, and the time was short." The Admiralty adds : "We conclude they perished."