Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

AUSTRO-CERMAN LOSSES. I j AUGUST TOTAL, 110,000. j Unitkd Press Association I ( Received !).•}•*) a.m.) '■ London, September <>. 1 A message from Amsterdam states that information from a German source shows the Austro-German losses on the Russian front in August totalled 110,000. \ MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Rome. September 6. 1 'Hie Giornal d'ltalia publishes a Petrograd despatch urging that early efforts by the Allies in Belgium and. the Dardanelles are necessary. II final victory is to be expected it will he necessary for the Allies to draw twenty divisions of Anstro-Germans from the east ifront. It adds, that notwithstanding the winter the Germans will he able to pursue the Russians, and this renders tin?, situation more critical than ever.

The fact that the despatch passed the Russian censor is considered significant. Petrograd. September 6. A communique says: The enemy hydroplanes bombed our torpedoer,s at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. The enemy was reinforced at Friedrichstadt. and his superiority forced our troops, who had crossed the river to Linden, to recross to the right bank. Our withdrawal near Friedriehstadt was due to the enemy's artillery firing the Dwina bridges. General Alexisevert now commands the western front, "and General Ivahoff commands the .south. Berlin, September ,5. A communique states that the Russians at Grodno retreated behind the Kotra sector .south of Jeziorv, Prisoners at Grodno have increased to 3600. Prince Leopold, in Lav-aria. lias forced an outlet from the swamps, and General Maekensen forced tins Russians to evacuate a hridgehead at Berezakartuaka. The * enemy showed fresh resistance in tfie Drohiczyn district,! m'rid our proceeding. General .BothmeTxlystormed: the enemy's advanced ppsitions on the west bank of the Sere|h.

Paris, September 3-.' 1. Copenhagen alleged that thie'j Aus-ti-ians are contemphvtjiiig'i'a'n'! invasion rifj, - sqijthqrvi' . 1 Russia , !from eastern Gallicia, t]ie [object being the reaching of Odessa and Sehastopol. London, September 5. German correspondents who visited Bi el stock state that in the valley the glare of the flames stretches for miles. spreading huge black clouds of smoke over the town, which is' not damaged as elsewhere. The Russians 6 Look. .tJiftjbells and carillons the; enurcli towers. Wooden .scaffolds w«l'« seen bv which the bells wv.p tied. i 'ei: 4 ?-: ■ ...... ;:.^::.j