SAN FLOODED WITH BLOOD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 124, 27 May 1915, Page 7

SAN FLOODED WITH BLOOD

FIERCEST BATTLE OF THE WAR DEVELOPING KAISER DIRECTING OPERATIONS PETROGRAD, 26th May. The correspondent of the London Daily News says that the battle on the San is developing into the fiercest of the war. Three million men are attacking and counter-attacking daily along the entire front. The Kaiser is personally directing operations. A great flock of German aeroplanes ia taking part. The Russians shot four airmen. General yon Hindenburg states that the stupendous slaughter was due to the solid phalanxes the Kaiser ordered to cross the river north of Jaroslav. The Germans hold only twenty miles between Opatow and Kolomea. They have been fastened to the right bank owing to the Russian successes above and below them, the Germans moving in close order like the troops of ancient Rome. The San is flooded with German blood. GERMANS FORCE THE SAN AMSTERDAM, 26th May. A German communique states : General Mackensen, after severe fighting, captured Swieck, south-east of Radymna (ten miles south-east of Jaroslav). We forced the crossing of the San after the Austrians had stormed the bridgehead. Further north we reached the district east of Laszke (twenty-five miles northwest of Jaroslav). GREAT FORCES SCATTERED PETROGRAD, 26th May. Official.— We repulsed the enemy in the Opatow region, despite his reinforcements, inflicting heavy, losses. There is desperate fighting on both banks of the San. Onr artillery scattered great forces* after repeated attacks. We took prisoner twenty officers and a thousand men, and also captured several machine guns. It is unofficially stated that the Germans are endeavouring to encircle Przemysl. They claim to have captured positions within seven miles of the inner fortress. The Germans are across the San on a front of fifteen miles. The Russians are holding the bottle-nock between Przemysl and the Dniester marshes, where the Russians have advanced and captured some villages. It is officially reported that in the Baltic provinces sharp fighting continues along the whole Dubissa front. PRZEMYSL AS AN ANVIL ml „. ' „ . LONDON, 26th May. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says that the Russians are making Przemysl au anvil on which the German Centre is being hammered, the hammer being the Russian advance southward from Nisko. Tn view of their immense reserves of men the Russians are finding their striking power lean affected than tho Germane, «nd it-ie- apparent that their successes may,- eventually efaorj^t^b^g^g,; . t . " " -' -' . " =r^~ '