Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 66, 17 July 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

THE THRUST AT WARSAW.

KAISER WILL BE THERE.

United Press Association. (Received 12 p.m.) Amsterdam, July 16. The Kaiser is going to Poland for the approaching thrust at Warsaw.

NOVO GEORGIEVSK.

THE GERMANS’ OBJECTIVE. POSITIONS OF THE TWO ARMIES. (Received noon.) Petrograd, July 16. The German advance on Prasnysz is organically connected with the southern operations. General Hindenburg is now rushing columns along the northern tributaries of Xarew, where it is estimated five German Army Corps .are attacking with two and a-half corps of cavalry, based at Olava. The objective is Novo Georgievsk (an industrial town,near the Dneiper, in the Kherson Government of Russia), while General Mackensen is aiming at Brest and Litovsk. The Russians now on the inner lines have the advantage in railways, and can throw troops from one part of the front to another. General Hindenburg has a splendid railway, which might give success in the first stage, but General Mackensen is hampered by badly-roaded country. Russian officers state that the, German soldiery are a rag-tag and bobtail lot compared to the sturdy fighters who were sacrificed in the first six months, and that their ages vary from' sixteen to over fifty. An officer writes that two Russian regiments in the recent retreat fell upon a body of Germans with their bayonets and simply hacked them to pieces.

A BERLIN COMMUNIQUE.

(Received 12.15 p.m.) Paris, July 16

To-day’s Berlin communique states: Our troops crossed the Windawa north of Polcwajany, going in an easterly direction. Wo made further progress after victorious fighting south-west of Kolno, south of Prasnysz.

ASIATIC CHOLERA,

AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES ALARMED.

United Press Association Vienna, July 16

Official.— Eight 'hundred and nine cases of Asiatic cholera were notified on July 12. There is an alarming spread of disease, chiefly in Galicia, where there are many cases among the prisoners of war, though the great majority are among the civil population. The authorities fear the spread into the interior of Austria, where many sporadic eases have occurred.

FALL OF PRASNYSZ. Berlin, July 15. A communique states that battles in tiio neighbourhood of Prasnys/, continue. We captured Prasuysz. which the Russians had strongly fortified.

i ! FOODSTUFFS FROM RUSSIA

Petrograd, July IG. The -Minister of Agriculture announces that there is a magnificent harvest, with reserves of foodstuffs. Russia is ready to continue the struggle for years, mid will be able also to provide tlu> necessary reserves for the armies of all the Allies,