Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 53, 1 November 1915, Page 5

Russia.

THE NORTHERN FRONT. GERMANS PROPOUNDING NEW PLANS. WITHDRAWAL FROM RICA. ENORMOUS LOSSES AND EXHAUSTION OF TROOPS? ■ i i ~i' ] ( '• United Asbooiaticjn, I [(Received 8.-JO a.m.) London,] October. -31. Renter states that there is comparative calm on the northern front, the German command working out a newplan, (nit they clearly realise that Riga is i unobtainable for winter quarters, which was promised the troops. The' five months' campaign in the Baltic Provinces has only resulted in enormous losses and tbe exhaustion of the

troops. A German communique admits their withdrawal from the Misse river, eight miles, from Riga. GERMAN REPORT] FROM THE SOUTH. (Received, 8.40 a,.m.) q London. October 31. A German communique states that it'is reported that the enemy isjeracu-4 ating Ktwel,whcrfe jfe.'had accumulated 1 vast quantities of ammunition and supplies. (Kovol is a town of about '20.000 population in tbe Volhynia government on tbe banks of tbe Turiya river). THE RUSSIAN WAR LOAN. (Received 11. a.m.) Petrograd, October 31. The banks at Petrograd and Moscow are taking up sixty million sterling of the forthcoming war loan. WHERE THE FLEET COMES IN. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Petrograd, October 31. The German slackening on the Riga front is Relieved to be due to submarines in the . Baltic preventing tbe transport of shells.