Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 8 October 1915, Page 5

Russia.

FAILURE OF GERMAN SCHEME.

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Petrograd, October 7

The feeling is much more optimistic in Staff quarters, 'and 'the belief is growing that the bottom has fallen out of General v’diV Hihdenhnrg’s third grandiose scheme to smash the Russian armies. . ' .

The natural obstacles to the German advance have enormously increased. Exceptionally heavy rains are flooding the rivers.

Only on the Dvinsk front are the Germans showing their old energy and tenacity. Here General von Beulow lias mounted eight-inch guns, but Dvinsk. ' though only protected with earthworks, is holding out. The Russians north and south • of Dvinsk continue to capture village after village, with serious German losses.

There was a typical fight at Danin.shevo. on the Vilia. where the Germans were driven out of the town, but repeatedly counter-attacked. Finally they brought np their reserves to within two hundred yards of the Russian centre. Two Russian companies caught them on the flanks, and the attackers were annihilated. The German troops are utterly exhausted by five months’ fighting, while the Russians are showing a recovery with the help of endless human and natural resources. The squares and open places in Petrograd are filled with new' soldiers.