Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 2 September 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

one' million prisoners. '-i ' ' ''i , i i *»«.k i i' > "ESUf-T MONTHS , ■i* i) •i-•• •> ! !■•-* * 1 ■ 1 '• *-• : >. -I »>. >k • o’' ij l I •' ;ji (1 1 iV m> I-' ■ 1 i•» • ■ it. i • • tr’Wirtii Pbeb« , Atao'dwTios. * 1 J '* ‘ (Received a.in.) : Berlin, /September' I.' A' communique'State's: General \ on Hindenhurg’s troops are before the outer line of forts at Grodno. Prince Leopold crossed the Lpper Narew, and forced the enemy across the Marsh north of Grozana.

General You Mackensen continues t6 hVflgtfeat 'W ,: 'Jfussiafis' they make a General face of stubborn resistance, stormed the heights on sf-We M Strypa, overcoming the .enemy’s temporary delay. During August we took nrisoimrs oil the J ‘Efiftebi' fl'orttf'hlnhlilrmg 2000 officers, 269,839 men, 2300 cannon. 56» machine gnus, including 20,000 prisoners and 82 1 cannons at Kovuo, tiffeeil geiieials, 90,000 raeii, 1200 cannon at Novo Georgievsk.

Since May 2 the Germans and Austrians took prisoners to, the number of over a million.

ENEMY SUBJECTS UNDER SEVERfe PENALTIES.

(Received 10.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, September 1. The Austro-Hungarian Government announces that all subjects who are working in neutral countries, particu-

larly America, employed in factories producing war material for the Allies, j are liable to ten years’ penal servitude or to capital punishment.

THE GALICIAN CAMPAIGN.

SUCCESS OF THE RUSSIANS. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Peuograd, September 1. Military critics attacli importance to Russia’s successes in Eastern Gali-

The German attack on the Tipper Bug and S try pa is aimed at pushing the Russians from the Roumanian frontiers five Austro-German army corps under General von Pflanzer suffered defeat. GeneralShumsky calculates that one million of the enemy are operating in the Brest Lituvsk, Minsk, and Bielostok region, three hundred thousand at Riga, and six hundred thousand in Galicia.

RUSSIA’S FINANCES.

WORLD’S GREATEST COLD

RESERVE.

(Received 10.50 a.m.) Petrograd, September 1

The Financial Statement in lh Duma states that the'Government ha already borrowed six hundred mil lions, and probably will raise an im portant loan in the foreign markets shortly. Russia has the greatest re servo of gold in the world.

PERSECUTION AT WARSAW.

bankers .in, concentration

CAMPS.

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: - J United Press issboiAXioN. 1 ' ‘'Received 8.50 a.nv.) Amsterdam, September 1.

, f Ph;A'.9Vcri)(?r of sept thirty iharikqrs to (the .qonyentrfitian camps ;,fyii refusing,. fo, .ippepf, proipis-. saify npfces..: ■ ,r .i , -.<i i i > ( /111 ' I V;' JAPAN AND RUSSIA. • I /V.. >MI ■u.'iv f WH AT : tH E LITTL E B R O WN MAN :! 10 IS DOING. h <»-!uvs-vi< i ,'j(i T. ! m.« ; 'I i .>•>' .<>(■, ii . t'l/lc I i!-<; . i;i t -Iji.<i i.ov :l'.! ! . (Received,lQ.^P. <,* i:. ri : 1 PhriS; i,September 1.

Baroli Hayashi, Japanese' Ambassador to Romo,estates that the public are not aware of the extent to i which Japan is cooperating with the Allies. When it is possible to tellj the world will he astonished at what Japan had done, is doing, and will do. The Russians are the nearest neighbours and therefore Japan is most useful to them.

RIGID HUNGARIAN REGIME.

(Receievd 8.15 a.m.)

Budapest, September 1

Yahchevecki, a correspondent of the N'ovoe Vreinva, was courtmartialled arid sentenced to death for communicating military information to the .icwsnaper two davs after the cleV 1 1- V ••hiration ot war.