EASTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 8 May 1917, Page 5

EASTERN FRONT.

HEAVY FIGHTING RENEWED. THE RETIREMENT IN ARMENIA. LONDON, May 6. A Russian communique says: —On the Caucasus front, for strategical reason*, our troops in the Ognot and Mush regions, west of Lake Van, took up new positions. The Turks occupied Mush. Our heavy artillery bombarded the stations at Povewask, east of Kovel, causing great explosions. Our aeroplanes bombed stations at Vila. On the Roumanian front, the enemy took the offensive west of Monestirka Kachinul, but our heavy guns drove him back to his trenches. TO CAPTURE PETROGRAD. GERMAN LANDING FORCE. UNDER COVER OF FLEET. PETROGRAD, May 6. General Korniloff, in command of the troops in Petrograd, announced that he had received reports that the enemy was -■5 concentrating large forces on the Rus---siah northern front, and German mer- ■ chantmen in Libau would be ready as soon as the ice melted to embark troops, under cover of the German fleet,

carry out a landing, possibly close to -Petrograd. ■> ..... Accordingly he orders the organisation of the reserves in Petrograd in order to. defend the capital against the foreign enemy, and to consolidate the freedom won by Russia.

PETROGRAD NOT ENDANGERED. OWING TO WESTERN PRESSURE. PETROGRAD, May 6. General Alcxicff, who is visiting the capital, declared that Petrograd is not endangered, as the Germans are at present sending troops from the Russian front owing to the pressure on the West front, but he predicted early fighting on the Russian front. He spok« strongly against the propoganda of no. annexation and no indemnity. THE MENACE OF IMPERIALISM. Received 11.5. PETROGRAD, May 7. The Workmen’s Council urges that an Arbitration court should be established. The armies ’ diminished institutions should be set up to protect the nation against the menace of imperialism.

PEACE TALK.

AN EXPERT'S OPINION

GERMANS STILL BELIEVE' VIC-

TORY POSSIBLE.

KAISER’S SEAT QUITE SECURE,

Received 9.55. COPENHAGEN, May 7. A correspondent interviewed Mr. Egan, United States Minister, who unprecedentedly commended the German peace conditions, of which he has made a .special study. Mr. Egan learned the Americans are against German peace proposal, as it was an attempt of Germany to gain what they were unable to win on the battlefield. The relations of the American war efforts was merely to increase German contempt for the United States. While food conditions were undoubtedly bad in the interior df Germany, people were still sanguine of victory, believing the American "war plans so much bluff. Peace talk United States would merely war. There was no trace of suy desire in Germany to dethrone the Hohenzollerns. The populace firmly believe victory is a question of time. Constitu- ' tional reforms do not bear the slightest degree on the Kaiser’s fate or loosen his seat on the throne.