Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 5

Russia

RUSSIAN SUCCESS ACKNOWLEDGED. London, August 22. A Gorman communique states:, Our cavalry repufsed the enemy on th ■ Stokhod, but the Russians penetrated our trendies at Fienaki and Zwydyn. All Serbian positions at Malka and Nidzeplanina were taken. We drove the French across the Struma between Bu'tkova and Tahinos and captured the Sinlinica and Englanina ridges. THE CZAR'S CLEMENCY. London, August 22. KhvostofT, the now Russian Min ister for the Interior, has released 12 exiles in Siberia and elsewhere. It is believed the Czar will shortly issue an extensive amnesty decree. . * CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS. Petrograd, August. 23. A communique states: The situation is unchanged. An Austrian communique states: We fought successful engagement:" south of Zielona and renewed attacks in the Pieniski sector. .We captured some advanced trenches on the SarnyKovel railway and Smolary. NEWEST ENEMY BOMB. IN USE ON THE PINSK MARSHES Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.55 a.m.) Berne, August 23, The newest enemy device is a bomb which explodes laterally, causing mutilation and death over an area of thirty yards. A flotilla of i aeroplanes is dropping those bombs on the Russians in the Pinsk Marshes, where dug-outs are impossible of construction. CAS ATTACK REPELLED. ENEMY OFFENSIVE HELD UP EVERYWHERE. RUSSIANS CAPTURE HEIGHTS. Press Association—-Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, August 23. A Russian communique states: We replied to a gas'attack southward of Krevo with heavy losses. The enemy southward of Brody resigned the offensive, which was repelled everywhere. We captured two heights near tha source of the Pruth at the Hungarian frontier.

RUSSIAN POLITICIAN'S EX-. , TREME VIEWS. PROSECUTION URCED. Press Association -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.25 p.m.) Petrograd, August 23. The Government is being urged to prosecute the leader of the .Extreme Right Party named Bulatzel, who, regarding Asquith's declaration of the punishment of those responsible for international crimes as directed against the Kaiser, wrote an article seurriloiisly diatribing | Britain, who, he said, was planning a tribunal such as- the death sentences on Mary Queen of Scots and Joan d'Arc. The British Army had advanced a few hundred yards in two years. The task of taking the Kaiser prisoner was presumably imposed on Russia. The war would not be at an end when Russia was' able to conclude an honourable peace, but when Russia was laid low by the Hohenzollern dynasty. . Bulatzel practically advocated a separate Russo-German peace. ,