17 JULY 1915, Page 1
In the eastern theatre of the war the Austrians do
not seem to have recovered from the check delivered to them, but we learn that on Monday the Germans assumed the offensive on the Narew front. It is also stated that great enemy forces aro advancing in the sector between the rivers Orzeo and Lidynia (to the north-west of Warsaw), which have caused the Russians on this front to retire on their second-line positions. Incidentally, a Petrograd communiqu4 published in Thursday's papers states that the army which held the Austrians back south of Lublin took close on twenty-three thousand prisoners during the week from July 4th to July 11th.
