Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

[N THE CAUCASUS,

LARGE RUSSIAN CAPTURE. United Press Association. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Pefcrograd, August 31. Official.—During the recent engagements in the Caucasus up to August 22 we captured 84 officers and 5129 men, while our cavalry killed over 2000 Turks. We took 12 guns and a quantity of arms and ammunition, two convoys of .supplies and two camps with the headquarters' tents, and a ;large number of cattle.

GERMAN PROCRESS REPORT.

HARASSING THE RUSSIAN REAR-

GUARD.

(Received 10.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 81

A Berlin communique states: On-, oral • Hindenburg's armies, are fighting for a bridgehead south of Friedliehstadt, and are proceeding. The Germans advancing towards the GrodnoVilna railway' captured two thousand prisoners. The enemy near Gorodok evacuated their position on the eastern horder of the forest of Bialystok. Prince Loepold's armies forced a crossing of the Tipper Narew in several places, the right wing advancing to Pruzana. General von Mackensen, pursuing the enemy, reached the Muekawice region, capturing three thousand of the rearguard. The advance of the German and Austro-Hun-garian troops who broke through north of Brozezany has been stopped at spme points on the Strypa owing to strong Russian counter-attacks;

STERN MEASURES AT WARSAW. REFUSAL TO TRADE WITH CERMANS. /(H'ee'eWd 11.25 a.m.) iJj'i ■ ' 'Amsterdam, August 31; '• ' The Go'vei nor of Warsaw has issued a decree to manufacturers, hankers, a'ntl 'tradesmen tßreh%«liinf«; ! fto close five years' aiiy who j refuse tpt trade with (>!ftKinan subjects.-' I | t 1812 RE-CALLEO; BREST, LITOVSK BURNEQ. ■, , : i:'..i'. 11-~—'»-. r<j; • j i./.Received. ;112.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 31.

The Yossiche Zeitung's correspondent, who visited Brest Litovsk, states that the Russians fired the whole which the greater part ■burnt \lmviv. , The , ; aim* UtiU station were wholly destroyed, [only *K*' Church ' of the Blue Domes ; and Gpjcleo. Crosses .wis left undamaged. T I 1 a -*. 't '. >■> '■■'■ '< > ■ '- ■ '.

-ENEMY-PAY DEARLY*

W K ' m feeiWaV,'August''3o

The Russians between Brest Litpvsk and Bielsk are inflicting fifteen thousand ,losse ( s on t tlje Germans daily,'and those between Bielsk and Grodno twenty thousand daily. The capture of the town of Xnrew cost the Germans thirty thousand men.

ANOTHER GERMAN CLAIM. London, August 31. The Frankfurter Zeitung writing on the fall of Brest Litovsk, declares that the campaign against Russia is defiliiitely won. Russia's plan of withdrawing her armies to avoid annihilation has been unsuccessful, because her losses in prisoners and guns are equivalent to a crushing defeat. BLOW TO GERMAN TRADE. ENGLISH CO-OPERATION WELCOME.

London, August; 31

The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent reports that Prince Shahovski, Minister of Commerce, in an interview, stated that the war had dealt German trade with Russia a crushing blow. If public opinion had its way Germany would never he allowed to recover her former position and we should particularly welcome the co-operation of Englishmen in the industrial sphere. All mills and factories at Warsaw that are directly useful to the State have been transferred to the interior. Many of these were Russian, but their propinquity to the frontier made them susceptible to German influence. The opening of thp Dardanelles would mean a steady gravitation of Russian industry to the Black Sea basin.