THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 112, 14 January 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

ICEBREAKER AT WORK. Press Association —Copyright. PETROGRAD, Jan. 13. The Germans are using ice-breakers on the Mazurian lakes to enable gunboats to operate, also to prevent the Russians from crossing the ice. GERMANS' INEFFCTIVE OFFEN- | SIVE. PETROGRAD, Jan. 13. (Official).—The Germans continue ineffectively a stubborn offensive in the Sukha-Mageley district. Six attacks were repulsed. Scouts in some parts of the front threw grenades into the Gorman trenchs, causing heavy losses. The Germans left. 500 dead at Samice en the 9th and 10th. THE SARY KAMISH DEBACLE SULTAN ENDS AN INVESTIGATOR. i COSSACKS CAPTURE HIM. PETROGRAD, aJn. 13. The Sultan sent Noury Bey, chief of the General Staff of the Third Ottoman Army, to investigate the causes '•f the defeat at Sary Kamish. Cossacks captured Noury at Karaurgan. TURKS DENY DEFEAT. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13. The Turkish headquarters deny the defeat at Sary Kamish. They allege ■hat the operations are delayed by mow and that the Russians merely attacked and captured a transport of Turkish wounded. PUSHED BACK GRADUALLY. PETROGRAD, Jan. 13. Private advices regarding the fighting eastward of Cracow show that h e Austro-Germans are being pushed back towards Czenstohowa. BRITISH DOCTORS ILL-TREATED. LONDON, Jan. 13. Five British army doctors have been reeased after five mouths' captivity in Mageburg. They inrluded Dr. Austin and Dr. Elliott. The Red Crooss men were arrested in Belgium, where they intended to establish a hospital, rourt-martialled for espionage and sent to Cologne, where, after a fortnight's solitary confinement they were re-tried several times and sent to Tc-rgsx, where thy were subjected to insolent treatment and poorly fed. POLAND'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT. THOUSANDS POVERTY-STRICKEN. * LONDON, Jan. 13. The Times corespondent at Warsaw says the devastation of Poland has resulted in deplorable conditions. Thousands are poverty-stricken and have lest everything. Leading Poles are constantly inquiring why, when kindness is lavished on Belgium, relatively small interest is taken in the pathetic and increasingly pathetic condition of Polish peasants. —(Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables). A CHEERING REPORT. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Local Government Board states that the fears of a widespread dislocation of trade consequent on the war have not been realised.. Except in a few industries unemployment is much less serious than had been anticipated. It was unnecessary to make heavy demands on the relief fund. THE AMERICAN NOTE. SIR EDWARD GREY'S SIGNIFICANT FACTS. LONDON, Jan. 13. Sir E. Grey's reply to the American Note printed out that since the war 773 Amei'can steamers had left, destin ed for Holland, Scandinavia and Italy, and 45 consignments or cargoes had been placed in the Prize Court. THE WILES OF THE SERPENT. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Times' Washington correspondent says that German propagandists are showing groat activity over Sir E. Grey's reply. They are flooding the newspapers with arguments shewing that Britain's sea domination is worse for America than German militarism. ENGLAND'S REMARKABLE EFFORT. A FRENCH TRIBUTE. PARIS, Jan. 11. The Temps' London correspondent considers that England's remarkable effort In improvising any army of half a million, also supplying the needs of an army in Egypt and Mesopotamia, furnishing the Allies with everything i which their industries, crippled by mohilipation or invasion, were unable to supply, is a veritable tour de fource which no other country could have achieved.