Eastern News
RUSSIAN SUCCESS ON THE VISTULA United Pupss Association. Petrograd, February 9. Official; Fighting is more desperate at Serpiec. An attempt to break our front at Borjimoff was checked. We captured a strong position at Karnion, twenty-five miles south-east of Plock, taking five officers and 3GO men prison, ers. AVe also captured sixty officers, 3500 men, and eleven mitrailleuses at Mezolahorez. GERMAN CORPSES IN FROZEN MASSES. Petrograd, February 9. A Bavarian soldier states that during the charge at Rawka he saiv the parapets in front of the Russian tren. dies. A nearer view disclosed on the parapets bodies of German frozen. The trenches were only a hundred paces apart, so that it was impossible to remove the dead, and they lay there for weeks in frozen masses.
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY.
REPLACING VODKA REVENUE.
(Received 8.45 a.m.) Petrograd, February 9
In the Duma the Committee of Ways and Means recommended that the Government declare a monopoly of tea, tobacco, oil, matches and insurances of all kinds, such commodities to form tho basis or revenue previously derived from the State monopoly of vodka. The passage of the necessary legislation is virtually assured. ,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 5
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191Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 5
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