GERMANS RUSHING EAST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 113, 15 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANS RUSHING EAST.

RAILWAYS RESERVED FOR TRANSPORT OF TROOPS. Press Association —Copyright. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13. | The German railways have been practically reserved until the 18th for' the transport of troops. Foreign military attaches with the Germans on the western front have gone to the eastern. ■ •. I PETiROGRAD’S REPORT, RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING. • PETROGRAD, Jan. 13. | (Official).—There has been artillery , fir* and skirmishing along the whole frcnt .We,have made progress in East Prussia and south-east of Mlawa. In the' southern area the Germans made an intermittent but unsuccessful offensive. j ‘ I LATEST OFFICIAL BULLETIN FROM PARIS. ALLIES MAKE FURTHER j PROGRESS. | PARIS, Jan. 13. > (Official), Our counter-attacks slightly progressed between Cuffus an«J Croy, but. bein<r unable to debouch ' j on Croy, our troops fell back slightly near the village of Moneel, WAR BY POSTER. GERMANS’ ORIGINAL METHODS, LONDON, Jan. 14. A Petrograd message says a feature of the Polish situation is the increasing practice of . the Germans to wage war by proclamation. - Russians recently on occupying positions found posters on wire entanglements asking them to become friends as the Ger-, mans were treating the Russians kindly by supplying work, thus en-j abling them to earn money; also offer-; lug seven roubles for every rifle de- j livered to the Germans. A number of Germans came to the Russian trenches with boxes of “smokes” and printed effusions declaring that the war was due to a terrible misunderstanding. Captured German officers were found in possession of proclamations asking the Russians to end the war. NOTHING TO DEVASTATE. t LONDON, Jam 14. Amsterdam newspapers report that | a German officer has said that if the , . i German troops had to retire from the j present position Belgium would b e devastated because the men had got beyond control. • SYRIA'S FUTURE. ROME, 1 Jan. 14. I T!i Giornale dTtalia says that Britain is planning to transform Syria into an independent kingdom with Prince Mahomet Daudas as sovereign Under British protection. This would . bring the realisation of Britain’s hope for a railway from the Syrian coast to Calcutta. AUSTRO-GERMAN ATTACK ON SERVIA. POME. Jan. 13, Th* tunwapaper Romano declares the pending Austro-German attack on Servla is not a puni-ive expedition, but aims at joining hands with Turkey across Servla and Bulgaria.