RUSSIANS NOT DEFEATED
STEADILY PURSUING THEIR TASK GERMANS' VIOLENT PAROXYSMS. (Received June 23, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. The Daily , Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that the Germans m Qahcia* daily hurl tons of iron at the Russian trenches, forcing the Russians to abandon the cover. The Russian? nightly- return and shoot and bayonet the German infantry and. recover the trenches, .only to repeat' the process on succeeding days. ' The Russian army is not defeated. It has suffered losses, but is wholo, and is steadily and successfully pursuing the task of swelling the German casualty lists whatever sacrifices of territory are involved. ' ' The Crei'inaiis ure advancing m '« series of violent paroxysms, succeeded by brief periods of exhaustion. The latest paroxysm brought the German columns to the defences of Lemberg. The sacrifice of the city will be ex-. treravly painful to the Russians, but the national spirit has been aroused to v pitch of fierce determination.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13718, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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