Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

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J J y f \ r ; THE CROSSING OF THE DANUBE. I ■’ ■_ iiuii.n

y United Press (Association. )Ci ‘ (Received .80* ta,»n.l) t u< '!; i■' London, August 15,

The newspapers interprete ,the attempt to .cross the Danube battz (ohj the Servian {‘holder) as* V demonstration to intimidate lionmania, Or as a begiuniugtin, carrying out the Orsova plan. •

RUSSIAN ORGANISATION METHODS.

[Uniter Press Association.] (Received 9.20 a.m.)

Petrograd, August 15. The Duma approved of a Bill for organising consultative mixed commissions of experts, to he attached to the ministries of war, Commerce, Communications,, Agriculture, to improve the supply of the,Army, output of munitions, provisioning of the people, and tluv ofttrfVWrs port-H .« ' ' m .i& HIM' 5 f i ' POSITION IN .LI I THqA^IA I * i. t \ ■ ; ■ t—H—O , I »:i-. * , . (-Received 9.15 a t ni.) . ■o il's"'* Petrograd, August 15. The Letts, who. Germans ire organising national regi- * meats to defend the country. Prince Joachim is riding abort!t Lithuania making himself and promising the peasants the establishment of a Kingdom. : jin , •■q.v. ■■ "i m BRISK SKIRMISH IN CAUCASUS: [j jff]J j * * ' I' PetrogPaUy*AUgnsT 14 ;’ * 1 , i Official : In the KoVnh district 1 tlih enemy has temporarily iilJanilonec! thhiih attaclcs. In the ' H'istiiia region, in conformity with*'' fille’ / Exigencies' cf the tUfii’«%i(m,‘'we enunciated 1 Sokohoff, Siedlcel aifd-'Liikotf.' " r ' lM ’ ! In the! €®uclififi.s the Turk's ■ twice assumed ithe offensive along the whole front. , In Passin ”-¥l« I Hey k -We 'MilloiMAl trhani to, approach to two hundred yards, and then |wice rppnlsed' them with enormous losses, capturing six officers rind 130 men. Our cavalry had several successes, and one Cossack captured a patrol of seven men. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. ; ~;l j , - Amsterdam, August 14. A Berlin official message says: A new battle is developing, where General Hindenburg's armies are engaged in the north Niemen district. • W> took the fortified fofest of Domikanka,' 1 prisoneVing 350 between ihe 1 Niirew and the Bug. We have ' leached Slina. where the enemy are resisting. We stormed a strong adva\i|ed i posi-1 tion north of Novo Georgievsk*, capturing 1800 men and- four machineguns. ‘ . . «

It is reported that the Ormans liberated all political prisoners ' saw, at the request of a ■’colhfhfltt&o'* of citizens.