THE WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 146016, 20 July 1916, Page 6

THE WAR.

RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

GENERAL RETREAT OF ENEMY,

{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

LONDON, Wednesday

Tho "Daily Telegraph's" Rome'correspondent has received a highly significant Fetrograd telegram announcing that a general retreat on the Wast front lias commenced.

Tho Aiistro-Cievmnns art-' retreating 'Snd la-Tlti"* Y'asle country and burn3iv villages. The telegram snvs this is one of the aiiany indications ihnt Coneral liiug a offensive has arousxu the first fears fil the German 'General Staff, and. the suggested possibility is that they must revert to purely defensive fighting in or-d'-M- to s.-curo toleiable terms of peace. General you Hhidonbnrg has already Leon summoned to the West front to discuss t]l « situation with the Kaiser tin.l General Fajkonhayn. It is iT.dor.-'tooil that General yon Hiii'lenburg has boon fhen complete control of tho Last front, including the Austrians.' General yon. Ilimlenburg's iii lioluiri.'M't is essential to the carrying out of the shcrU-mng of tho East j front, which is nlrcaly in progress. Russian experts point out that General yon ITindonl.ui'g'.s sector, in tho .i;iga district, is now organised solely for defensive warfare, and consists of conf-ret.; trenches Mid ten to twelve "lines of wire defences near which mines Jiavo been laid.

The C-orrrtars are si ill building a series of fid! railways, connected with "Mitau and Windo.u.

Other railway organisations at General yon liind'c-nbr.rg's rear represent the last word hi military science in regard to the rapid transference of troops rind the supply of munitions and food.