5 JUNE 1915, Page 2

Once more it is exceedingly difficult to say what is

hap- pening in the Russian theatre of the war. As we write on Thursday evening, the latest news seems to show that Przemysl has fallen. In addition, a new development of the German offensive took place on Tuesday night. On a front of over twenty miles the Germans made a strong attack against the Russian lines which defend Warsaw—the lines which were so successfully held by the Russians in the early spring. The German attack was accompanied by the use of clouds of poison-gas, the fumes of which are said to have been perceivable nineteen miles behind the Russian front. In spite, however, of this, the attack was unsuccessful.