Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 85, 10 August 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

GERMAN BRUTALITY.

PRISONER QUOTES INSTANCES.

United Pbess Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.') . Petrograd, August 9.

An Austrian prisoner describes the terrible German brutality upon prisoners at Jaroslav. He said I saw a German ignite a barn in which were nine.. Russians, and when they attempted to escape, they were beaten back with clubs to the accompaniment of German laughter. While crossing the San the troops were blocked on the small pontoon bridges, when a large party of Russian prisoners arrived, and the German commander said: "Throw the Russian devils into the river!" The order- Was carried out. many hundreds being bayoneted before my eyes., )|4lM{ti) i'" I Saw a company of ; Austrian Uhlans under a German officer practicing sword work on dead and wounded Russians who-were stuck in a swamp.

AN EYE-WITNESS'S EVIDENCE.

(Recelvied 10.25 a.m.) : *'.'o nPHrcigrad, August 9, An Eye-witness have given sworn evidence of Prince Joachim's presence

at tlie Backing of a big estate at Suwalki, when his share of the loot included a troika team. Witness's i'athwr wa« killed at Kalisch, and his sister, tortured and succumbed, whili* another was abdireUd.

GERMAN PROPOSALS.

RE-UNION OF LITHUANIA AS

INDEPENDENT KINGDOM.

(Received 10.25 a.m.) Unixeu Prbss Association

Rome, August 9

Refugees from Lithuania state that the Germans are distributing \ pamphlets, at Kovuo announcing the reunion or the Russian and Prussian Lithuania as an independent Kingdom under tk« Kaiser's son, Joachim, whose portrait 'adorns the pamphlet.

Lithuania is the old name an exteiwvi, tract of country lying between Poland and Prussia and now partly comprised in the Russian governments of Wilna,' Grodno and Minsk. Another portion is included in. East Prussia. It is very flat, generally sandy, and intersected by vast marshes and bogs.

CHANCE IN OPERATIONS.

GERMANS CHECKED BY R US-

81ANS.

(Received 10.35 a.m.) , Petrograd, August 9. The newspapers assume that the Germans are altering their plans on the Eastern front, and are now aiming at Ossowicez. They declare that the enemy's operations to Riga entirely failed.

The Xoroe Vremya .says the Germans were thrown back; at Mitau, which explains the sudden attack on Kbvhb'. " 1 ' :

The Baltic papers imply that Mftail is now again' in the possession o'r thV Russians. ■• - - •■-.■---•«■ -• ■ .'"■'' .T'.IJBCfJJ r DISAfPPiiN f T|VIENT ( FOLLOWS.; FLAC-WAVINC.

WHAT WARSAW ME A NS. ? j vm.it "/. ; -'1 ; ■■ u«iusi»'«q i bnn --n ,-n'.:,-/ ! ;< S: ! : '-;'J' 'hh b .'.'- (fo'eke'iyed 1 '^.:' J, ' - , > .l 1 ., ■ '''' t [ ;; ''".^'• i '- ■ "Rottei-damrAugust '9., ,/! Keerf dTsUplioijitmeni' followed jß«r- ; llh's ; owing A ia ' the ! 'ah.- J sence of the announcement of large capture's of I menj !^|^He HC, niiJ^p%pers : ' sudclenly changed, pointing out that is not % cisive' milital'y H % 1f.3 ?! V ' The Voswiscliej Zeitung says : ' 'The capitulation'of Warsaw ; is a groat stride nearer peace, whicii, however, is still far distant. No fortress, even Paris, can be regarded as the final object of military operations. Peace will only follow the ruin of our enemies' armies. The conquered Vistula line will become a springboard for the attainment of this object. Like Liege and Antwerp on the West front, the capture of Warsaw and Ivangorod only clears away the first difficulties."

THE RUSSIAN RESISTANCE GERMANS MEET SEVERE FIGHTING. (Received J. 10 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 9. A German communique says: The Germans approached Kovno Fortress, capturing 430 Russians. We progressed towards the north-western front at Lomza after severe fighting, in which we captured fourteen hundred, also an armoured motor car. We crossed the Ostrow-Wyszkow road. The enemy who were at some points stubbornly resisting, were repulsed.