ENORMOTS AUSTRO-GERMAN SACRIFICES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 5

ENORMOTS AUSTRO-GERMAN SACRIFICES.

BFSULT IN" CAPTTTR-E OF SOME

BLACK SEA FLEET ACTIVE

RUSSIAN POSITION IN GALICIA

THE FRONT SHORTENED

PETROGRAD, May 19. "nffipiil— We assumed the offensive : £&&£?££ 4nd Ktfloroea w«»re vigorous, Dut bai- ™ o??£n£. Their losses, «re generally estimated^^-^th—. An Austrian official despatch claims the Aiistro-Gormans wined the east Snlc of the San. Russian counterattacks were bloody, and were re- ' Ulsed- LONDIN, May 19. The Russian General Naval Staff announces that the Black Sea fleet destroyed Turkish coal-mining districts, one " steamship, thirty-six sailing vessels and also destroyed a pier, an elevator, and the railways at Kozlu The Times' Petrograd correspondent >-6avs the Russians retreated m the 'Carnathians to re-arrange and shorten their front, and they are tkw:forming v eomnact mass between the ban and BuUovina. Apparently they are aW donina the southern half and. middle of Galicin. aud are about to make a stand in the northern half of the province. The San is the western line of defence. pETRO GRAD, May 19. 'A submarine sank a German trans- : port ship off Lrbau.