RUSSIANS NOW WELL PLACED

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS NOW WELL PLACED

AND ABLE TO CARRY OUT AN ORDERLY RETREAT (By Telegraph.- -Presi Association.— Copyr'thi.) (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received September 11, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 10th September. Colonel Repington, the Military Correspondent of The Times, says : The fortune of war is variable, bnt, in view of the unfavourable conditions of the Russians' retreat from the Vistula, the Russian armies are new well placed, and able to carry out an orderly retreat, fighting where they please and ma long as they wish until the wet season has alsoady begun. Then the snow will impose a halt on the German armies, leaving them in. winter quarters in a devastated country." WAR MUBT BE CARRIED TO A VICTORIOUS END. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received September 11, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 10th September. 1 The Times correspondent at Eetrograd says the Tsar's leadership of the Russian army and navy baa not caused surprise; the effect has been to intensify the sentiment .of the country that the war must and will be carried to a yictoriouß end. (Press Association.) ANOTHER RUSSIAN VICTORY SEVEN THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN PETROGRAD, 10th September. Official.— -We have had a success at Trembovla in Galidft (fifteen nrilei •outh of Tarnopol), which equals that at Tarnopol. We have token seven thousand prisoners, and the enemy is retreating. The High Commissioner reports : LONDON, 10th September, 4.30 a.m. The Russians have had further successes with their offensive in Galicia. Thousands of men and many guns have been captured. . LONDON, 10th September. A Petrdgrad communique states : On the roads to Kovno the Russians are holding up the advance of great enemy forces. Along the) Olyka Kleven railway (west of Rovno, in Southern Russia) the «nemy is supporting his offensive with artillery fire of the mosb violent character, which the Russians aro enduring with the greatest courage. On thA Set'efch, south-west of Trembovla, our success was as important as at Tarnopol. We took prisoners totalling 150 officers and seven thousand men, and thirty-six machine guns. The Russian losses were unimportant. The enemy on Wednesday evening retreated in great haste toward* the ' Sferypa, and the pursuit continues^ Our captures on the Sereth since the 3rd total 383 officers, ove» seventeen thousand n)*m, »Dd ninety-nine guns.