Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 95, 23 August 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

LET US SING I

“NOW THANK WE ALL OUR •fi; cod.” ’• 1 i *. l • nm:

tjNITRD PkKM ASSOCIATION. ‘ j i;Beeeivpd S.dd a.tU.) , {, | Amsterdam, August 22. . Thp North German Gazette, states that th,e Raisin'. telegraphed-TJer, vnn .Be,thma‘nn-Hollweg|:|', i “Th(i)lks- to (jpd’ ( s, assistando, mul.to > then-tried leadership , pfj •General .vitni Deshplter and his heroic troops, >aJso, to the ex‘celient lAustro-German siege artillery, the strongest and most modern Russian fortress, Novo Georgievsk, is in our handft/ dt is one of the finest feats of arms.”

Hollweg' replied: “We are full of gratitude to God, The entire people rejoice Wt the Arrhy’s deeds:” * M

-Thousaiuk .sung Ai.iuwpj)uj. J sftJ!gs,,.3J!>d ‘‘Now ihank we all our God” before Palace. i: f

C E RIVIA N’SN£ AR B R E^t-LITOVSK iifi IS i, , _ r*. . , (Received 8.45 a.m. , , Amsterdam, August 22. The, Tageblatt correspondent says that Austro-Germaus are within ten kilometres of the outer forty of BrestLitovsk. The are experiencing difficulties in retreating across the Bug, especially ns they are thrown, hack to immense swamps near Rokitho. GERMAN PRESS JUBILATION. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 22. The Lokal Anzieger praises the defenders of Novo Georgievsk, and adds: “The Russian Sun is setting and soon there will be a holiday in East Germany.”

RUSSIANS HOLD MITAU.

THE RAILWAY SAFE.

(Received 9.50 a.m.) Petrograd, August 23

Bomb-dropping aeroplanes frequently fly over Hrest-Litovsk. The whole of the Grodno-Bielostock-Brest-Lilo-vsk railway is still in Russian possession. Immense stores, provisions and precious monuments, such as AmnkoIsky’s statue of Catherine the Second have been conveyed to the interior. Hundreds of trucks were required to transport municipal property. All copper articles were secured. Endless processions of refugees from the Kovno district are streaming along the Yilkomir road. The Bourse Gazette states that German advance detachments appeared towards Suientziaiiy on the VilnaPetrograd railway. The Russians vig- 1 orously drove them hack and also were successful in an important engagement near .Milan. BRIGAND ATTACK ON GENDARMES. (Received 9.55 a.m.) 1 , Petrograd, August 22. Persian brigands attacked our Gendarmes at Kaovan, 13 being killed and 22 wounded. RUSSIA’S RESERVES. I EIGHT MILLION TO BE CALLED. j (Received 9.20 a.m.) Paris, August 22. . ( Russia lias announced an early ■ summoning of a reserve of eight million men under thirty-live.