Aller directement au contenu. Aller directement au menu principal. Quebec :Chronicle Printing Company, In stone bottles. Grocer and Wine Merchant, Established , St. John Street. Sir Rictarl also sail he had 1. The result of this, the Minister added. Lloyd-George deprecated what be termed all the wild and irresponi- ile taik of there being plenty of shells available.
He said he was ecourging the country for them and was prepared to take every shell that could be produced. June The damage sustained was not serious and the cruiser was able to proceed under her own steam. There were no casualties. The cruiser was 1 uilt in and has a speed of about 21 knots. After an artillery preparation the infantry sallied from the trenches with superh spirit. Our left, in-a single bound, carried two lines of the enemy's trenches, and these they held notwithstanding violent aud numerous counter attacks.
We took some prisoners. At our left the British army gave us efficacious support. Everything confirms that the enemy's fosses were very heavy. The Quebec Boy Scouts, numbering 75 strong, about half of their or- siginal strength. Staunton and Captain Legh. In charge of Lt. A trestle bridge was! Duke told the boys how well pleased he was. They occupied the Galician capital August 3 last, only six weeks after Austria had declared war against Serbia, and held it continuously until Tuesday, when the combined Austro-German forces L compelled them to reatreat from the city, which is only sixty odd miles due west from the nearest point of the Russian frontier.
Whether the fall of Lemberg means that the Russian army operating south of it in south-cast Galicia is effectively cu: off from the army to the north stretching across Poland to the Raltic cannot yet be said. The newspapers of both Vienna and Berlin say this is the case and that the Russian arms have received a blow from which they cannot recover.
Up to Previous despatches from the Russian capital, however, related details of what purported to be the systematic withdrawal of the Russians from the town, and if these details should prove correct it is believed in military circles here that when the count is taken of the Austro-German booty it will be not large, for, as was the case at Przemysl, the Russians are said to have worked hard to move everything of military value.
