THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

BETTER REPORTS,

OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING INTO

GREAT SUCCESS

THE GREAT GERMAN BLOW

APPEARS TO HAVE SPENT ITS

WEIGHT,

PETROGRAD, May 25. Official.—Our front on the Lower Dubissa has made great progress. We forced the enemy to the defensive al r most on the whole front in Galicia.

Ou • offensive on the left bank of the Dneister has developed into a great success. We captured 40 officers, 2200 men and several machine guns, besides much material.

LONDON, May 25. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports that the Kaiser on Saturday left Jaroslav, journeying west(ward. He was ir. the deepest dejection. General Hindenburg warned him that (the plan for a terrific blow on a short front "looked. well on paper, but the Russians would be lively to entangle the.tro'ps

After weeks of struggling General ■Mackenseii has now abandoned a*hopeless tht -task oi extricating the Germans on a two hundred mile front. Th. Germans have no troops to resist the Russian advance on the Pilica, where thousands of prisoners are takeg daily It is unofficially stated that the immense accumulations of shells at Cracow for the advance have so decreased that the Germans are obliged to economise, and their advantage has immediately vanished.