Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

TOWARDS PETROCRAD. / A STUBBORN CAMPAIGN. APPALLING SLAUGHTER OF HUNS. United Phebs Association. Petrograd, August 13. Official: We repulsed German attempts to overwhelm our outposts in the Riga region. Our troops are advancing successfully, and pressing the enemy in the direction of Jacobstadt and bvinsk. We occupied Kovarsk and Toviany, north of Vilkomir, after a fight. We continue to repulse assaults on the roads from Hotssa and Suiabova. We assumed a counter-of-fensive on both sides of the KieffMaikin railway, and we repulsed the enemy with heavy losses between the Wieprz and the Bug. Their losses were specially severe east of Ostroff, where the German dead lay in enormous heaps.

The desperation, impetuosity, and recklessness of the German smashing their regiments to pieces against the Kovno forts recalls the tactics in Belgium. An entire army corps is con’centrated opposite Kovno. with massBK,of, heavy artillery which were hastily bigught up. After a tornado of projectiles, the infantry were sent forward in successive waves, regardless of the fearful havoc made by the steady Russian machine-gun and rifle fire. .The only result was that the approached our outer works, .five, miles from the main girdjle. London, August 13.

A German wireless, referring to Russia’s 'suggestion to favor the Allies by special railway rates after the war. states it will mean a continuance of the war with Germany by other means, leading to serious difficulties. Germany must receive accession to Russian markets, .like all other nations. For sixty years the Britishers have been unable to beat the Germans, although enjoying the same treatment, and if England cannot use her present opportunities Russia’s markets are bound to again become a German domain.

The Dink*;, Mail’s correspondent at Petrograd says th'at to-day the first given of the of an Endeavour by the enemy to approach’ Pc,ti.Dgrad. The ,, de- ( cljjrlsjthat Germans fcr» develop operations'in the joining the roads Ijo the the object of lever of fresh pressure in the Balkans. An advance agamsjt {Unless the Germans the Baltic. The Russian fleet is regarded as a safeguard for the security of the capital. Copenhagen states that the German Baltic fleet is using Lilian as a base repairing harbor, and the enemy are [fortifying the town;. jmthM . r 4 ■! RUSSIAN NAT ONAL UNITY, i ; t:i rr.i.i —i—)Ml '/.’A'* (Received 9 a:m.) - fIV/;{MVT Petrograd, August 1-Lra** ill Tlie'i President of the Duma 'plaiWs - * Hd- 1 the Czaj'that the mil|||fej authorities at Kieff prohibited of members outlie Left. He considers the ol jjartie.'J a constant call %»r naiiiinal Xrtiityf * I : V\ , :

I/O KILLED AT WARSAW.

(Received 8.20 a.mV Amsterdam, August 13

Victor Von Bleichroder. son of the famous German banker, was killed in action at Warsaw. Bleichroder was once Secretary to the State of Saxe-Weimar and became engaged to a Princess of Saxe-Weimar, who committed suicide in 1913 owing to her ■father’s opposition to the marriage. GERMAN PROGRESS REPORT. i y o ' xy f ' * (Received 12.25 p.m.) Berlin, August 13. )! A communique states: General Von Hindenburg has made further progress fn’.Oattaok-ing Kovno. We progressed r between Mile' Narew and the Bug despite the enemy’s strong reinforcements on their front, where the resistance' had to lie broken .sector to sectoiV ;i General Von Scholtz took nine hundred prisoners and captured three guns on Thursday and General Ton Gallwitz took 0550 prisoners. Prince Leopold of Bavaria fought his way to the sector at Sokolow, captured Siedlce, and has reached the Liwiec sector. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. (Received 12.25 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 13. An exchange of Russo-German prisoners has commenced. One hundred out of live hundred had lost a leg.