THE RUSSIANS CONFIDENT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13826, 22 July 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIANS CONFIDENT.

London, July 19. The Russians are confident of their ability to hold the Germans in the Prasnysz region, also along the Narew and Lublin-Cholm lines. Should the enemy make a fifth attempt to force the Vistula and capture Warsaw, it is believed they will be no more sycce&sfnl than on their four previous occasions. The Austrian losses south of Lnblin are now estimated at nearly seventy thousand. Thes, losses were largely responsible for the bringing of General yon Mackensen's offensive to a standstill. The Germans' new northern offensive I covers a front of four hundred miles. Heavy fighting is iniprogress for practically the whole of that distance. The German troops include fifty thousand raw levies who have been rushed from the interior of Germany.