Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 59, 12 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

"ON THE ROAD TO BERLIN!"

RUSSIANS BIDING THEIR TIME. Times and Sydney Sun Service. Received 8.0 a.m.) London, March 11. A correspondent at Petrograd says: "General von Hindenbnrg's boast is not meant, and will deceive few. It confirms the impression that the, longheaded Germans, despairing of success on the western front staked everything on the chance of victory over the Russians, if not by an invasion of the Empire, at least by barring our ad. vanee to Berlin. Repulsed and disappointed hosts are wending their way homewards through the difficult lake and forest regions under the most terrible weather conditions. We are still on the road to Berlin, and shall pursue them when the proper time comes. hi East Prussia, the enemy has obviously exhausted his offensive. In the Carpathians he still advances with spasmodic vigor, hut the attacks arc invariably crushed."

REPORTED AUSTRIAN SUCCESSES

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Receved 8.0 a.m.) London, March 11. Vienna reports numerous successes over the Russians in Poland, Galicia, and the Carpathians, and that, besides inflicting great casualties, many hundreds were taken prisoners.

RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT.

United Press Association. Petrograd, March 11

Official: The enemy on Monday and Tuesday bombarded Osowiecz with 12inch shells.

Serious artillery engagements are proceeding along the entire front at Khorjile, towards Prasnysz. Our advance at Pilica is maintained. We took several hundred prisoners. The Austrians were driven back with heavy losses along the whole front from Grorlifcz to the Uszok Pass.

THE CZAR'S VISIT TO FINLAND. GREAT RECEPTION BY HIS PEOPLE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Helsingfors, March 11. The Tzar had a great popular reception, visiting the warships and also the Protestant Cathedral. Helsingfors is the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland—an extensive country to the east of Sweden. It is 750 miles long, with a breadth averaging 185 miles, the surface in general is flat, and the interior may be described as a table land 400 ft to 600 ft above sea level. The south part of the country is nothing more than a compound of marshes and lakes. The population is chiefly Finns and Laps. Up to the 12th century the Finns were Pagans, living under their own kings. About the middle of that period they were conquered by the Swedes, under whose dominion they mostly lived until 1809, when by the treaty of Frederikshamn, the country was ceded to Russia.