Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 55, 10 February 1916, Page 5

Russia

I BLACK SEA BOMBARDMENT. TURKISH POSITIONS ATTACKED. I RUSSIAN SEAPLANES ON THE ANATOLIAN COAST. | i I fUNiT*" Par« A»«orrATiON.l London,February 9 (5.35 a.m.) Petrograd reports that ships in the Black Sea bombarded the Turkisn positions. On the Anatolian coast a squadron of Russian seaplanes bombed a steamer anchored at Hung lid ik. REMARKABLE RECOVERY. STRONG POSITION IN MEN AND CUNS. MUNITIONS CRISIS OVER. INCREASING ALLIED RESOURCES Unit«d Press Association. London, February 8. A remarkable story of how Russia recovered from the munitions crisis of 1915 is related by General Polivanoff, the War Minister. He said: "The situation in December of 1914 was exitremely harassing. In June, 1915, the crisis was tragic and the Russian army was forced to retreat owing solely to the lack of shells. This position was, the more regrettable because everything favored Russia winning; but .the lack of munitions paralysed us and we were forced to retreat in order to gain time to prepare. "To-day the munitions crisis no longer exists. It is only a sinister memory. The first results of our labors were evident in September, 1915 when our batteries could make themselves felt. Since then there has been an absolute transformation of our industrial activity. With our national production and the fact that enormous markets abroad have been dispensed with, we can look to the future with confidence. All the grave gaps are now filled, and the morale of our troops is excellent. "Thanks to the recent mobilisation we have a great mass of men, and we are doubling our permanent depots, so that we have a permanent reserve of va mililon and a half young recruits. We are thus able to feed the various units without sending to the front insufficiently trained men. It is a matter of capital importance to maintain our units complete, and this is now assured. In a word, as the war is prolonged so the Allied forces increase and those of our enemies decrease. The German smay invent new apparatus for their war machine, but such expedients cannot modify their inevitable fate. "Behind the four Allies are the natural resources of the whole universe, while behind the army of the Central Rowers there is nothing but exhaustion and slfakiness. Regardless of the cost and sacrifices we will continue the war to the end ? and thus ensure a final, lasting and, glorious success."