Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 5

Russia

“STRATEGY OF DESPAIR!” WITHOUT PARALLEL IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE. Times and Sydney Sun Sbbvicm. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Retrograde October 13. A correspondent describes the present German operations- as the strategy of despair, which are without a parallel in the history of warfare. ' -I RUSSIA’S BOUNDLESS FOOD RESOURCES. Times and Sydney Sun Services, , (Receiver] B.U a.m.) Petrograd, October 13. i Ah indicating the boundless food resources of Russia, the peasants pi Samara are delivering daily 250 C tons of wheat. Owing to an abundant harvest, wheat is cheaper than rye. (Samara is a fertile agricultural province in S.E. Russia, lying along the left bank of the Lower Volga. The total area is 58,320 square miles with an estimated population of 1,000,000. The capital bears the mine name and is on the Volga, and is at the head of the Central, Asian and Siberian Railways. It is a. thriving commercial centre, with grain trade and milling industry. Population 100, .850.) , . . v -V ■ RUSSIAN CAVALRY CROSS THE CARPATHIANS. (Received 10.2-5 a.m.) Petrograd, October 13. Official.—Russian cavalry crossed several passes in the Carpathians and descended on to a great plain in Hungary.