SCENE IN THE DIET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 7

SCENE IN THE DIET

SOCIALISTS CALL FOR PEACE BATTLES ON THE DNIESTER THE RUSSIAN RETREAT GERMANY'S REPLY TO AMERICA ffhe 'enemy's .vigorous efforts to move 'from jL'emberg along one of the Galician railways have been 'stopped by counter-attacks. At a number of places along tiie Dniester heavy fighting is in progress, and se.yere losses have been inflicted upon the enemy, who has been thrown back to the river. The enemy is reported to have Ssuffered appalling losses in the operations before Lemberg.. The west front is comparatively quiet. The Italian forces are working methodically. There has been an endeavour by the 'Austrians to assume the offensive, but it was repulsed wherever tried. The Sultan of Turkey is ill, and there is some trouble iover the selection of a regent. 'A 1 violent scene occurred in the Prussian Diet, when iHerr Liebnecht, the Socialist leader, declared that the .German people desired peace, and that his party had the mass of the people behind it. It is reported that seven German submarines have reached the Mediterranean Sea by way of Gibraltar. Germany's reply to the r American Note admits that she ,was probably misinformed as. to the arming of the Lusitania,,