THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

ENEMY'S GALICIAN ATTACK WEAKENING.

BLACK SEA FLEET BUSY.

THE FORCES IN GALICIA.

MILLION AND A HALF ON EACH SIDE. FLOWER OF GERMAN ARMY ENGAGED. PETROGRAD, May 23. Official.—The enemy made a thrust at the Galician front on Friday, but there are now signs that it is weakening. The defensive was assumed on several sections. We assumed the offensive on the left bank of the lower San and carried several villages and repulsed a counterattack in the direction of Lisko. We carried in the enemy's salient pn the right bank of the San, the village of Ignatse, northward of Jaroslav. The enemy eastward of Sussakpw carried a . portion of our trenches^ the Russians counter-attacking and 'taking, 1000 prisoners, , The enemy's attacks on the" remaining Galioian' f i<m£ : wW>«> of a. more, isolated character, and 'uost them enormous losses. The Russians toek hundreds of prisoners in the Slonsko district and two enemy companies surrendered. The enemy on the Narew front carried out partial counter-attack to accustom the troops to the use of poisonous gas. The enemy is reinforcing the defeated elements at Opatcp from Galicia. \ Official.—-The Black Sea fleet disembarked troops on the 20th, despite resistance, and destroyed landing and loading places east of Eregli. It is estimated that nearly a million and a half troops are engaged on each side in the battle in Galacia. The Germans have four thousand guns. Official.—The battle in Galicia continues with great desperation. The enemy extended his forces somewhere on the right bank of the San in the centre line, but we realised important successes on the left bank in the direction of the Vistula and in the direction of Przemysl. LONDON,'May 23. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent says the German main onset is in the centre of Galieia on a fiftyfive mile front, where they have concentrated half a million troops, the flower of the German army, inelud.*i)g the various crack regiments from France. Every yard is disputed day and night. The momentum of the Macedonian phalanx was irrestible, but it offered a terrible mark for the Russian artillery. There has been no such wholesale sacrifice since Bzura. The head of the phalanx strongly holds the right bank of the San, and the remainder are still on the left bank. The situation remains grave. The Germans continue to have the best of the struggle, but there is now a feeling that lack of mobility is increasing the difficulty of maintaining at full pressure the supplies. Several hundred guns' were left behind.