MOBS RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 135, 10 February 1915, Page 5

MOBS RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

CAPTURE OF MEN AND GUNS. (United Press Assn. —Copyright.) PETROGRAD, Peb 9. Official: Fighting is more desperate at Serpiec. An attempt to break our front at Bc-rjiincff was checked. W;e captured; pvroug- n't Kamiori, 23 miles south-east of Plock, making prisoners of five officers and 3GO men. We captured 60 officers, 3,500 men and eleven mitrailleuses at Mezoloborez.

GERMANS ATTACK REPULSED. PARTS, Feb. 9. (Official.) —The enemy exploded mines outside our positions at La Boisselle and sent two and a half companies fto the assault. They were repulsed, leaving 200 dead. GERMAN ATROCITIES. FURTHER REPORT BY BELGIAN COMMISSION. LONDON, Feb, 9. The Belgian Coin mission's furt her report is packed with instances of the barbarous German device of compelling women to shield so;oxers; of the imprisonment of hostages; of the wholesale murder of civilians; and of the sacking and burning of houses, — Times and Sydney Sun Services.

SCANDINAVIA’S SYMPATHY IS WITH ALLIES. GERMANS OVERDO PRESS CAMPAIGN. PEACE MOVEMENT AFOOT. LONDON, Fob. 9. A correspondent travelling Norway and Sweden describes a change in public opinion. Formerly pro-German, it is now strongly in sympathy with the Allies. The costly German press campaign was so. overdone that the people becanve disgusted, realising that Germany must have an uneasy conscience or site would not spend milliens of marks in this senseless manner. A great peace movement is afoot in Scandinavia. In a single week 200 meetings were held in Sweden alone. GERMAN FOOD SUPPLY. EVIDENCES OF SEVERE STRAIN. (Reed 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Feb 9.

The German. Federal Council has adopted regulation for manoeuvring in municipalities to compel persons to divulge all flour in their possession under ICO kilogrammes, and for expropriation of any quantity exceeding

Cards are distributed to householders in Greater Berlin entitling them to purchase bread proportionate to their families.