IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 25 July 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

i OUTFLANKING HINDENBUKG, 1 SAKHA ROFF’S BRILLIANT MOVE- , MENTS. i HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND i PRISONERS. j PETROGRAD, July 24. I Details of the great battle on the Lower Dvina, which has been proceeding for a week continue meagre. It is reported that the Russians in one place advanced five miles, captained Kemmern, twenty miles west of Riga. They have also driven the Germans across the Nusse, from the Kokkau River, which flows into the Dvina thirteen miles south of Riga. The Grand Duke’s summer campaign in the Caucasus is extremely promising. The weather is good. The Russians have captured Adasa, whereby they have secured all but the last .‘lO miles of the great military road running from Trebizond to Erzeroum to Erzina.i. The Russians still have a range seven thousand feet high to cross before they reach Erzinjan from Keli kiehiffeik. | Sakharoff’s victories cn the Lipa j River bring the total of Bnusiloff’s prisoners since June Sth to 300,000. Sakharoff’s successes during the week alone cost the Austro-Gennans 50.000 casualties, being one third the total German forces in the Lipa sector. Twenty-seven thousand Austro-Ger-,mans were captured on the Lipa.

RAIDING HUNGARY

RUSSIAN DETACHMENTS

VIENNA, July 23

The Vienna “Diezeit” states that numerous detachments of Russian cavalry are raiding Hungary north and south of Borsa, forty miles south-east of Marmorossziget.

There is no Russian confirmation of the news, which may be intended to break the bad news to the hitherto deluded Austrian public.

HELL LET LOOSE

women; fight for food in : BERLIN.

A first hand account of. some of the recent happenings in Berlin is' available through the medium of a copy of the Socialist Journal Vorwaerts, which escaped confiscation in transit through the mail on May 9th It shows that the Kaiser’s capital is in a state' of desperation bordering on actual revolution (says the Daily Express) y-fhat. the rapacity of tradesmen is goading the population into acts of lawlessness .apd violence only, compar- ; able with a condition of civil mutiny, land! that constitued authority is ,set at ; absolute defiance by a people on the j verge of starvation. j The Vorwaerts may well . describe the scene as “a sample of hell let loose ’ i "Last night hundreds of women had .been waiting for hours in front of the • Biesold stores to purchase meat. The shop remained closed and eventually a placard made its appearance in the window bearing the inscription ‘Meat sold out.” A great murmuring arose, j among the crowd which threatened to develop into something mire active than mere grumbles when it occurred to two of the women to proceed to the police [station and induce the police to make !an inspection of the store. ‘‘Before long two officials arrived on the scene; they ordered Frau Rosa Biesold, the proprietress, to open the door of her shop. The police entered and descended into the vast refrigerating chambers, where they discovered thousands of pounds of bacon, hams, sausages, fresh beef and pork, salt beef, great casks filled with dripping and tallow, and many other wares; while in Frau Biesold’s villa were found huge stores of poultry, cheese, eggs, etc.

In the midst of the turmoil there came a great shout: 'Down with the shameless ones’ and in an instant the cry was taken up by thousands.

j “Wave upon wave of agitated, mostly feminine, and all struggling humanity flung itself against the front of the Biesold establishment

I “Th e police were knocked down and the entrance hall became gorged with the wriggling, shouting, panting human torrent. The storm raged throughout every part of the building. From the vaults below, great joints of beef and veal, carcases of pigs, etc. were dragged up the narrow stairs by the puffing women with a masterful agility, while from the upper windows strings of sausages were flung into the streets ou the heads of the agitated throngs.

j When the premises hud been empfied ’and several of the attacking party lay lin a dead swoon in the street and when five of them had received serious injuries in the fearful crush in the hallway'and passages, a force of mounted gendarmes arrived on the merit and sausage strewn battlefield, and the mob j was forcibly dispersed, many bearing the spoils of battle in triumph to their j homes j Thus at length did Berliners effee-. tually take into their own ...hands the punishment which the established authorities should long ago have meted out to all those who perpetuate usury with the people's food.

j PETROL RESTRICTIONS. OPERATE ON AUGUST 1. LONDON, July 23. The Government restrictions on petrol operate on August Ist. Taxicab owners and drivers protested, insisting that the minimum should be three gallons daily. ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN TO GREECE. ATHENS, July 23. It is reported that Great Britain and Prance have advanced Greece twenty millien francs. THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. A SCANDALOUS AFFAIR. LONDON, July 23. Lovat Fraser, in the “Daily Mail,” says:—All the trouble in Mesopotamia arose through the order to advance on Bagdad. The responsibility for the order is one of the greatest mysteries of modern times. The campaign is the worst instance of military maladministration for a century. lie confines responsibility to General Nixon, Lord - Hardinge, and General Duff, and the Cabinet.