GERMAN ADVANCE LOSING DASH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 12 October 1915, Page 3

GERMAN ADVANCE LOSING DASH.

/ENEMY "DIGGING ip." RECENT FGHTING IN RUSSIANS'

FAjVpURj !

ALLIES LOOK CHEERFULLY TO FUTURE.

LONDON, October 9

The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent states that the main evidence that the German advance has lost its impetus is the map. There is plenty of proof that the Germans are digging tihemselves |in round Dvinsk, where for weeks an incessant battle has raged among the lakes and swamps The enemy is no nearer its objective —which Riga in the rear. The balance of the recent fighting on the quadrilateral Dvinsk-Polotzy - Villiki - Vilna is emphatically on the side of Russia. A neutral critic gives the German strength against Dvnsk as 700,000,but a military writer In the Russian official organ says the number (reaches 350,000.

The correspondent continues: On the Sereth a large concentration of German troops is said to be awaiting developments in other regions. Prisoners taken on the German front admit that the German troop's are worn out and assert that nocturnal countor-at-tacks are carried out under the influence of intoxicants, barrels of which are brought to the trenches after nightfall. Many Germans were captured in a drunken sleep. The uniforms and boots are generally dilapidated. Sldiers who fall «re immediately stripped of boots, and even the wounded were found bootless.

A German, • wireless states that m Turco-German association for the tmcouragemnt of mutual relations lia» Enver Pasha as president. Mr. Asquith, in a message to five Liberals, says the spirit of fixed determination, no matter what the sacrifice, to carry the war to a vctorioua conclusion, has never wavered from the first moment we took up arms. No momentary difficulties can for an instant weaken it.

The London Times' correspondent at Petrograd says that welcome evidence is accumulating of a gradual change onour front owing to the steady technical improvement of Russian armies. "Thanks to their artillery the AustroGerraans have hitherto easily advanced,, but now our artillery is meeting on equal terms. Prisoners state that the: Germans in the Vilna region suffered colossal losses. The scarcity of clothing and footgear is so great that the dead are invariably stripped. The cavalry is in a pitiable conditon. The martial spirit of the men has appreciably declined, and confidence in victory has disappeared."