Eastern News
DISEASE AT EZEROUM. i j Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 28. There ure thousands el deaths daily at Erzeronm from typhus and smalli pox. The mortality is heaw among idoctors. The stocks of medicine and ! disinfectants are exhausted, and uni buried corpses are causing disease. The Russians are reluctant to advance on Erzeronm, fearing contagion. FIGHTING IN THE CARPATHIANS Petrograd, April 2eß. The Germans have half a million men in the Carpathians, whereof half are striving to force a passage against the eastern Russian wing in the direction of Stryj. The remainder are distributed amongst the Austrians in order to infuse energy into the fighting. Only the Hungarians are putting heart into the work, realising they are fighting for their hearths and homes. | The Russians have now collected in jPrzemysl a thousand guns in perfect order and much ammunition, also reifills enough to equip two army corps jWibh ammunition for two mouths. RUSSIA’S FUTURE. London, April 28. At the Slavonic dinner at Petrograd the eminent historian M. Platoriaf dwelt on the importance of Constantinople for Russia, and declared' ithat it was no longer possible for the .Russians to live without the. Black Sea Straits. Re insisted that Russia cannot restrict herself to the Bosphor-
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1915, Page 5
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211Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1915, Page 5
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