10 JUNE 1916, Page 3

Its unexpectedness makes Russia's great and] growing victory all the

more pleasant. The only shadow which falls across it is the thought that Lord Kitchener will not be in Petrograd to express, as the nation's representative, our delight in so magnificent an achievement. The scene of the recent fighting has been on the extreme south of the Russian line, not very far from the Rou- manian frontier—that is, along a. wide front in Galicia and Bukovina. The fortress of Luck, the capture of which was announced on Thursday evening, appears to be the northern and Czernovitz the southern limit of the fighting line, a distance of about a hundred and fifty idles.