Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 89, 21 March 1916, Page 5

Russia

GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS. United Pem» Associat.o!*. Amsterdam , March 19. A German communique says; Russian attacks at the Drysvjaty Lake, and also on both sides of Marogz Lake, began with the greatest violence, but were everywhere repulsed with extraordinarily heavy losses. We counted 9270 dead at Naroos Lake. Our losses were small. > • MWPJ.LANEOUS. ,London, March 19. The London Times’ correspondent at Petrograd says that a special consultative body is:' now drafting instructions for the Russian representatives at the Paris economic conference. A far-reaching programme in-* eludes the defence of the Allied market against an influx of enemy and neutral commodities, co-ordinating principles on which is based the presentation of demands to the. enemj for compensation of war losses, and post-war emigration between the Allied, countries. The Ruskoe Slovo reports that the Germans are making elaborate technical preparations on Dvina, similar to the offensive at Verdun.