THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

HEROIC RUSSIAN RESISTANCE

HEAVY SLAUGHTER

LOSSES ENORMOUS ON BOTH SIDES.

A NEAR SHAVE FOR THE KAISER

HIS CAR BLOWN TO PIECES

A FEW MINUTES AFTER HE LEAVES IT.

PETROGWID : -.lay 21. The Russians near the San are maintain1!!" a heroic resistance under a terrible Artillery storm. The German advance is packed in a close phalanx ot 150 (V.X) men, upon whom the Russian # artillery is inflicting heavy losses. The "Germans are sweeping every yard with forty batteries, of which halt the cuns are of heavy calibre. The first three days of the battle at Dunaiec entailed 60,000 German casual- - ties and 26,000 Russian casualties. In the region of the confluence or the San and the Vistula we pressed the enemy successfully. In the vicinity | of Jaroslav we are pressing the Germans on both banks of tne San. .Enimy aeroplanes dropped bombs on Przemysl. ' ... The fighting is particularly intense on the Luskow-Iwwessi sector, where i:he enemy, at an enormous .sacrifice, captured 'several or our advanced *" trenches. We tontinne to remilse . -tenacious attacks on the Drohobycz, ■Strvi and Dolina front, inflicting immense losses. The operations west of Kolomea on both banks of the Pruth, continue'to our advance. According to the Vossiche Zeitung, -the Austrians used a new battery of fifty-two centimetre mortars at Tarnow. The first shot entirely destroyed a lar<fe tower at a distance of eleven miles" A shell weighs a quarter of a ton more than the German seventeen--O^arich mortars.

PETROGRAD. May 2] Geneva reports that the Kaiser and liis staff were watching the operations r.enr the river San, when a shell burst araonu tho staff's automobiles five hundred "'yards away, destroying several, including that of the Kpiser, and killing his chauffeur. The Kaiser left the ;-«ar a vfew minutes previously.