THE KEY TO LEMBERG.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 10

THE KEY TO LEMBERG.

The obvious fact that 'big events are talcing place and are still to'talce place with formidable ' and ■increasing' forces near the Rumanian frontiers must Dot lead us to premature conclusions that all other parts o9 the front have become illsignificant, wrote Mr Ludovio Itfaudeati, the Daily Telegraph's correspondent, 'from, the Russian, south front on Nov. 1. The fact is that for about two '-weeks the whole of , the southern .front has been shrouded m at, dense fog and perpetually soaked! by rains; I;,had the^great pleasure , yesterday: of entering.; the Austrian forts of VHahcz-^-thdse: forts which are •now occupied by the . Russians. They are buUt.-oa-.tliejheadlanids o£,a kind of rolling ciiff">vhich. : dorninates entirely the left bank' of .the. Dniester, which, like .the. to\yn-. itself i is ;Only.tlxre& miles away iron} those forts. German, trenches run along .the, rjght bank of the Dniester; Some, oft the Allies' guns might destroy j itW toAviv since tliey .hold it absolutely : ■'Utxdei* their muzzles r but liow-jthjey limit \ themselves tOy sheliing 1 ; occasioiiallyi the .. station, -tiherailavay lines, and the.groiips ; of ; military.- : . %he J^iyssians might also stohia jthejtowni; . as ifc'is oirly ;febbljr protected by the Dniester, our front- ci'ossing ,that river a My miles, southwards by iro/t and Wooden bridges fto the westSrard of the marshy region: of; the lower B ( v^tritj;a. I hay** r seen -t/liOße bridges, aiid. .believe that* the. Rttssians, 'might. >vhen ifc pleasecl . tHenisel.ves, at a cost of some, sacrifices, rus^'into Halicz. But ;fi'!iis. is .an opei'atioii >vhicli:, m view of tlie general situatibn:!on the wholei front, Ji.as been 'postponed. Since 1914 Haliczhas been considci'ed as a key of Lenv 'berg, and that key is now Virtilally m ■the hands' of our Allies. Holding' the ( J^rts.. of •" -HaJii'css, their have obviously ■ a \ most excellent startingi-point M'henevei* I they choose to make a new rush weist- j 1 •Wards. :"' - ..'•', -:- :...'.-. .■ .' . . I