THE BRESLAU IN ACTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 134, 9 February 1915, Page 5

THE BRESLAU IN ACTION.

PETROGRAD, Feb. S. The cruiser Breslau, after exchange lug shots with the fortress at Bntoimi, retired. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT, FIERCE AND FANG FINERY FIGHTING. WELLINGTON, Fob. S. The Prime Zvlinister has received the following report from the Hgh Commissioner, dated London, February -S; Petrograd reports that the fighting in the luster nad Sdezuppe valleys was very fierce and sanguinary. On he left bank of the Vistula there wore violent artillery duels.

In tlio Carpathians the Russian progress continues. T\vo thousanfl prisoners were taken. On the left of the Bzura, near the month, the Russians captured a "Very important strategical positon. A: TITANIC STRUGGLE. • SOLDIERS FALL IN THOUSANDS. BODIES’PILED THREE FEET HIGH. ROME, Fob. 8. The Message™’s Potrograd correspondent reports that the conflict on the Vistula and Rawka was titanic. Soldiers fell in thousands, and their bodies were piled three feet high. The rescue of the wounded was difficult, and many were buried with their comrades •* corpses. GERMANY’S BLOCKADE. AN IDLE THREAT. KAISER AND HIS MEN MAKE GREAT MISTAKE. LONDON, Feb. 8. The chairman of an important shipping company declares that the. German threat to blockade the coast is idle. It can never be carried out, and none knows it better than the Germans, who have been fruitlessly trying to establish it for the past five months. Mr. Gibson Bowles, ex-M.P., says the Kaiser has made an extremely weak and foolish plagiarism of Napoleon’s Berlin and Milan decrees of a hundred years ago. The New York papers describe the threatened blockade as ‘ 1 a warning of crime on the high seas,” and as new evidence of desperation, and playing with fire.

The Times' Washington corrospondout says there is not the slightest sign that German bluff will succeed.

Philadelphia. Now York and Boston announce that no sailings have been cancelled. Everywhere confidence is expressed in the British fleet. It is Hi that Germany has blundered, and, by r. few strokes of the pen, obliterated the impresson which propagandists had been diligently raising. Germany has created an unexpected favourable atmosphere for the settlement of AngloAmerican trade difficulties. AMERICA’S DUTY. NEW YORK, Feb. S. The Sun says that while it is of the greatest importance to America to hold aloof from the war, it will be her duty to notify Germany that any attempt to interfere with American commerce in any zone will be resented wth all her resources. NEUTRALS’ PROTEST ASTOUNDS GERMANY. COPENHAGEN, Feb. s. German newspapers are astounded at neutrals condemning the threatened blockade. A. telegram from Berlin states that the Government will disregard friendly or non-friendly protests, adding that the treatment of neutrals' vessels will in future depend upon the attitude of (Tie respective Governments. GRAIN AND FLOUR. COMMANDEERED IN GERMANY. (Reed. 8.50 a.in.) AMSTERDAM, Feb. 8. German municipalities are empowered to commandeer all private grain and flour exceeding twenty-five kilogrammes.