NEW GERMAN MOVE IN THE EASTERN THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2608, 2 November 1915, Page 5

NEW GERMAN MOVE IN THE EASTERN THEATRE

ENEMY'S FAILURE AT RIGA HOW THE BRITISH SUBMARINES HELPED By Tel«grapli-Press Asaociatlon-Oopyrizfri a tw „ • London, October 31. A neuter message says there is'a. comparative calm on the northern front, lhe German command is working out a new plan, but clearly realises that fcV. 110 ?°t*mablo for _ winter quarters, which ivere promised the troops, lne hie months campaign m the Baltic provinces has only resulted in enormous losses and the exhaustion of the troops. milesSfom m mga° mmiUli9Ue admitS withdrawal frolu tlle Misse Biver > eight of Tw/iT'lf t! ! at t] } e enemy' is evacuating Kovel (117 miles south-east and ' ™ accumulated vast quantities of ammunition BLOCKING THE ENEMY'S SHELL SUPPLIES. The slackening of German efforts on the Riga .front is teller e^t^be 3 due to submarines m the Baltic preventing the transport of shells. GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. » r & ' i • , Amsterdam. October 31. A German official communique states: "General von Hindenburg'a concenbS,l- of ?he°MisL » e lks , slans to ovacu - ate the village of Plakanen, on the north MUTINY AMONGST GERMAN SOLDIERS. r< i , Tr Petrograd, October 31. , . G f m ?" tro °PS at P>nevo, near Kutno, in Russian Poland, complained that their families were left destitute, and mutinied. When the officers forbade their corresponding with their relatives they shot the officers , Fivo hundred of the soldiers deserted at Skieruiewice, and took refuse in captured 6 1 gmg 6 villa S es - So far they have not been STREET BATTLE BETWEEN SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS TERRIBLE COMBATS AT VILNA. The Germans have commandeered all the metaf^t; o 'Vflnt ° C n^^f r + 30 " collected everything to the last nail; The population offered no'resistanceTll the Geinians began to strip the churches, then an enormous crowd fathered at night, armed with grenades and bombs-. When the soldiers began to strip the churches in the. early morning the crowd attacked. There wore terrible aid bloody combats m the streets for two days. Many soldiers and< civilians were