EASTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 July 1917, Page 5

EASTERN FRONT.

RUSSIANS YIELDING TO < PRESSURE. ENEMY MAKES VALUABLE CAP-' TuliES. LONDON, July 22. Wireless German official —We pressed on and reached the Brzezany-Tarno-pol railway at several points, everywhere defeating newly arrived Russians. We had desperate enqounters with t-he seventh Russian army, near Brzezany, they also yielding to the increasing pressure on their flanks. Prisoners and booty were large. We captured rich war stores at Jezierna. The Russians strongly attacked between Krevo and Smorgon, but broke down heavily. Fresh fighting is proceeding. TROOPS DISREGARD ORDERS. LONDON, July 23. Wireless Russian official.—There is intense artillery fir e southwards of Dvinsk. The enemy continues to attack west ward of Tarnopol. Our troops continue to retreat beyond the Sereth.

The enemy occupied Zagorbelia, which is a suburb of Tarnopol. Despite our superiority in numbers, our retreat is almost uninterrupted, owing to trie instability of the troops and the disregard of orders, and the propaganda of Maximalists. The enemy compelled us to evacuate Balino and to retire to the right bank of the Lomnica.

] RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN THE NORTH. LONDON, July 22. ! Wireless German official. —Fighting .• is proceeding at a few places where the Russians penetrated our positionssouthward of Smorgon. RUSSIAN FRONT YIELDING. LONDON, July 22. German communique.—The whole front from the Zlota Lipa to the Dneister is yielding under the pros sure of our attack on the Sereth. TARNOPOL IN FLAMES. LONDON, July 22.

Wireless Austrian official. —Movements towards Kazava have begun. Tarnopol and numerous villages eastward of the Sereth are aflame. KERENSKY GOES TO THE FRONT WITH TRAITOROUS REGIMENTS. PETROGRAD, July 22. Kerensky went to the front to prevent a repetition of last week's disaster. The Executive are disarming and disbanding all regiments which refused to fight. The general situation is quiet, but in several districts the rebels fired on the executive army, killing several Cossacks. MANIFESTO TO THE ARMY. LONDON, July 22. Wireless Russian message.—The Provisional Government issued a manifesto to the army, saying: Three weeks ago, in accordance with the War Minister's order, the armies on the south-western front made an offensive with a mighty revolutionary impulse, prisonering 36,000. These heroic fighters, although threatened on the front by German bayonets, and nearby with treacherous mutiny, held their honour, the Fatherland's existence and the succes of the revolution more precious than their lives. The , nation's forces suppressed the mutiny in the interior, but the revolution is still a great dangass, the external army having gathered strength, assumed the offensive, cunningly coupled with a traitorous blow. Dear soldiers, go forward heedless of the cowards and save the freedom of the Fatherland.

STRINGENT MEASURES WANTED. PETROGRAD, July 22. The general staff on the Roumanian front telegraphed demanding most stringent measures, including armed force against the rebels. ANOTHER ODTBREAK. PETROGRAD, July 23. Serious disorders have broken out at Nishninovgorod. A band of soldiers has taken command of The town. The local Council delegates have fled. The rebels have pillaged the city. Troops have left Moscow to quell the rising. (Nijno-Novgorod is a great commercial city of Russia, at the confluence of the Ika with the Volga, 274 miles east of Moscow.) TARNOPOL REPORTED CAPTURED. Received 10.25. LONDON, July 23. It is reported that Tarnopol has been captured by the Germans. RUSSIA DOWN AND OUT. FIGHTING SPIRIT UTTERLY DISAPPEARED.

Received 10.25

PETROGRAD, July 23

The Workmen and SoldTers' Conj gress passed resolutions granting- the Provisional Government unlimited power to re-establish discipline in the army. A correspondent states the Government and Executive Committee in the south and west reports that most units of the Russian army are completely disorganised. Mutinous soldiers threaten to shoot those opposthem, and there are long lines of del serters. A* fatal crisis has occurred in the morale of tlie troops, and the of- ! fensive spirit has utterly disappeared. I THE RUSSIAN SET-BACK. f PETROGRAD, July 22. Despatches from Galicia state that : the breach made by the enemy in the j Russian front is twelve versts broad |by ten versts deep. It is impossible to forecast what will happen at the front. The fact is that von HindenI burg, after a prolonged policy of in^c tivity, has launched an offensive, the effect of which on the Russian mor?-» jin incalculable.