EASTERN BATTLEFIELD

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 2 October 1915, Page 5

EASTERN BATTLEFIELD

RUSSIANS IN GOOD POSITIONS. GERMANS' HURRIED RETREAT. 0 (Rec. 12.40 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Oct. 1. Generally, as the resul't of a serif of successful engagements the positloi of the armies along our front are fa l ourable. Our defensive was particularly sm cessful eastwards of the Svientsian; Ochraiana line. German depression was noticeable 1 the abandonment of slightly woundet also waggons, arms, and projectiles o the line of retreat.

GERMANS IN TROUBLE.

CAUGHT IN POLISH MIRE. LONDON, Sept. 1, The Times’ Petrograd correspondcn says Polish refugees state that the en emy’s horses, guns, and transports ar sinking in the treacherous mire of tin Pinsk marshes. Guerilla peasant bands, perfectly ac quainted with the labyrinthian tracks are effecting sudden raids, which til Germans are powerless to cope with The peasants are firing cottages am abandoning their villages in the pat’ of the German advance.

STUBBORN FIGHTING.

PETROGEAD, Oct. 1. A communique states:— Cavalry stopped a German offensive southward of Lake Drisviaty. We dislodged the enemy at Ivule Ko vitcry, on the Styrj, and re-took No chiehthe, eastward of Kolki. There is stubborn fighting in .-tin vicinity of Silno, eastward of Lutsk which we abandoned two days ago. V.'< were obliged to retire in some sector.but repeated counter-attacks to tin muth of Silno dislodged the eneim Prom their trenches.

A RUSSIAN HEROINE.

HEADS A CHARGE. CAPTURES AN ENEMY TRENCH. (Reed 10.30 a.m. PETROGRAD, Oct. 1. Unheeding appeals of officers to tak( shelter from the hail (of bullets Min; Ivanova, a nurse, tended wounded ir the thick of the battle on the 21s1 September, until all the officers, in eluding her brother, had fallen, and the men were wavering. Mira realised the moment was critical, and she rallied the remnants and chalrge-d at their head and captured the enemy trench. Sh e was then struck in the head by a bullet, and soon died.

AUSTRIAN * RESERVES.

LONDON, Sept. 30. A teiegiram from Vienna announces the enrolment in October of Austrians aged 18 and, in November, of men aged 43 to 50. —Times and Sydney Sun Cables.

GERMAN WOUNDED.

(Rec. 1.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct. T ' A great number were wounded at Ostend and Blankenbergh, and have been conveyed to Germany.

GERMAN INTRIGUE IN U.S.A.

HOW A STRIKE WAS AVERTED. LONDON. Oct. 1. The Freeman’s Journal gives details of German plans for promoting strikes in America. Matthew Cummings, a Bostonian, approached Mr. William Dempsey, secretary of the Atlantic Longshoremen, regarding a striked. Strikers would be paid ten dollars per week. He considered a six weeks’ strike would bo sufficient. As a bait to the leaders he that they give the workmen five doluKars, the leaders to pocket the balnace. Cummins communicated with L O’Connor, the Longshoremen’s present* an Irish Labour leader. Oumnings refused to state who was the principal, but said that he could raise 1327,000. O’Connor had no doubt the inncipal was Dernberg. Cummings said the scheme would tie up the shipling on the Atlantic coast, cripple the Allies, and assure German success. O’Connor told the whole story to tlm Lnitod States officials, and the conspiracy was defeated. Cummings was previously connected ivitli political intrigue in Ireland. j

recall demanded.

VON PAPEN MUST GO. (Reo. 9.40 a.m.t WASHINGTON, Oct. I. Unless Germany recalls Von Papon, niltary attache, who has given great )Hence by describing Americans diotic Yankees, the United States will ■equt?st his recall.