FAVOURABLE SIGNS ON THE GALICIAN FRONT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 7

FAVOURABLE SIGNS ON THE GALICIAN FRONT.

GERMANS* GREAT SACRIFICES TO ENCIRCLE PRZEMYSL. ENEMY'S BATTERING RAM BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL PeTROOBAD, May 30. It is officially announced that the enemy has made prodigious efforts during the last few days to encircle Przemysl. The enemy on the San began to change, his front on the 2()th, constructing 15 bridges. General von Mackenßen, on the 24th, hurled armies between the Riveis Limutalchevka and San, and simultaneously the enemy's left flank, .with hundreds of thousands of infantry and a thousand guns, attempted to turn us on the left bank of the San on a 15-mile front, in the direction of Radymno and D'rogotcher. The Austro-German armies which should have aided General von Mackensen to turn Przemysl from the south were decimated near Gussakow, while General Rimanof, the hero of Port Arthur, crushed the garr.ion of Labisseco behind Mackensen. Mackensen is repeating on a much larger scale his manoeuvre at Lodz, in November. The present manoeuvre is still incomplete, and though some of the German infantry regiments have lost three-quartors of their effectiveness, it is premature to speak as yet of the result, despite favourable signs. The Petrograd correspondent of the London Observer says that •the Grand Duke Nicholas has again proved the superiority of his strategy. The German battering ram became immobilised for a week. It was heavily hampered, and then attempted tactical manoeuvres, but the development was slow, and, owing to the distance from the railways, it was impossible to repair the battering ram's failure.