EASTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 6 July 1917, Page 5

EASTERN FRONT.

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

OVER 18,000 PRISONERS.

25 GUNS AIs T D 33 MACHINE-UNS.

RUSSIANS’ HAUL IN TWO DAYS

LONDON, July 5,

Wireless Russian Official: During the fighting on Sunday and Monday, we captured 3000 officers and 18,000 men; 25 guns and 33 machine-guns.

Received 5.45 a.m

LONDON, July 5

Russian official: Artillerying 1 of varying intensity is taking place eastward and southeastward of Brzezany, where our attack did not materialise, but we repulsed the enemy counterattacks at Milozyszcov. We captured Pendjvin in the Caucasus. | A torpedoer of the old type has been mined in the Black Sea.

WHY BRUSILOFF BECAME A REVOLUTIONARY.

LONDON, July 4,

General Brusiloff, in an interview, said his offensive last year might have ended the war if the high command had co-operated, which it did not. It was the retreat of 1916 that made him a revolutionary.

AUSTRIANS ADMIT BROKEN LINE ROME, July 4. Austrians papers for the first time admit that their front near Zbqrov has been broken and that reserves are being brought from every quarter. Their losses have been colossal. The breach has been provisionally closed by the Turks. ENTHUSIASM AT RUSSIA’S VICTORIES, STREETS THRONGED WITH CHEERING CROWDS. BRITISH LEGATION CHEERED. Received 11.45. LONDON, July 5. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says the armies in Galicia continue to advance. A thrill of hope and energy is passing through the whole front:' The armies’ motion from Brzezany to Halicz, which was the initial success, is being steadily followed up by cheering crowds, the throng at Nevsky swelling in numbers and enthusiasm as fresh reports of victory come to hand.

There was a great meeting before fhe Kazan Cathedral, where M. Plekhanoff, Social Democratic leader, was speaking. The Cathedral doors opened and the clergy came out to bless the people. The crowds were singing revolutionary songs, when they stopped, fell on their knees, and chanted the “Hymn Eternal,” in memory of the first soldiers to die for the Republic. Processions visited and cheered the British Legation. Sir R. Buchanan and Mr. A. Henderson addressed the crowds. ‘

At a meeting of the Congress of Workmen and Soldiers the delegates approved the advance; there were seventy-four dissentients.

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. AUSTRIA’S NEED FOR PEACE. Received 11.45. LONDON, July 5. The Daily Telegraph’s Milan correspondent says that Hindenburg’s visit to Vienna was chiefly concerned with the peace question, because General Brusiloff’s offensive had created a panic in Austro-Hungarian circles. The Emperor Carl recently, at Munich, emphasised Austria’s need of peace. The Kaiser and Kaiserin are expected at Vienna at the week-end. IN GERMANY. FURTHER FOOD RIOTS. AMSTERDAM, July 4. There has been further food rioting. Women stormed a frozen meat storehouse and took and distributed four pigs. They plundered a butchers shop. Troops charged and cleared the streets. GERMAN WOMEN SOCIALISTS. COPENHAGEN, July 4. A Berlin telegram says the first conference of German women Socialists will meet during the week-end to demand political and economic equality. IRON CROSS DEPOT. AMSTERDAM, July 4. The Kaiser has decided that all German soldiers who are prisoners shall receive the Iron Cross on returning home after the war if they prove that they did not surrender voluntarily.