TUESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 5 August 1915, Page 3

TUESDAY

Russians Retiring—An Enthusiastic Duma — Autonomy for Poland— Precautious in Holland — Greatly Increasing Army

Messages from Petrograd state that Warsaw has not yet been evacuated, that the Russian forces are retiring deliberately eastward, and that the fact that the withdrawal is not being, obstructed is taken as evidence that the German offensive is being reduced through exhaustion to impotence.

The Tsar has made a promise that Poland will be granted autonomy, . Russian suzerainty, at the conclusion of the war.

portion of the trenches lost by the British near Hooge, in /landers, has been recovered The Germans captured the trenches by attacking cover of a new device, oiticially called a ' flame-projector.

The Italians have captured a line of strong Austrian trenches along the Isonzo front.

It is reported that the Austrians have already begun the evacuation of Trieste.