Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 76, 6 March 1916, Page 5

Russia

ACTIVITY NEAR RICA. |lJN«i*;i- Pheho Association 1 Petrograd, March 3. A communique states that the enemy are aerially active in the Eiga and Dvina sectors. NORTH OF CHARTORYSK. Petrograd, March 1. A communique states: Our artillery dispersed the offensive north of Chartorysk. THE COMING STRUGGLE. CURIOUS TREMOR IN THE NORTH. GERMAN PREPARATIONS. (Received 9-5 a.m.) London, March o. The correspondent of the Observer (Petrograd) writes: There is a curious tremor on the North Russian front, as it anticipating the coming struggle. German aircraft are incessantly reconnoitring, and there are llianv movements of the troops behind the enemy's lines, with big hospital aud am | jU lance preparations. lhe constant outbursts of artillery hre along the Dvina show the general watchfulness. The situation of the Germans on the Dvina is an unenviable one, as an early thaw submerged whole companies- of engineers who had been brought from Germany to drain the swamps. To rescue the isolated n „itß, flotillas of boats were utilised lo save 'the artillery-