RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 August 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE OUTLOOK IMPROVING.

LONDON, July 30

Mr. Wilton, the war correspondent at Russian headquarters, says the staff are more hopeful of the panic being suppressed ruthlessly. Three divisions of cavalry have taken positions along the front of the retreat. An attempt to spread the panic resulted in prompt executions. Plundering is being similarly punished. Deserters and spies, who enjoyed immunity under the committee lie dead, on the highways, a paper being pinned to each corpse notifying “Here lies a traitor.”

GERMANS ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY

LONDON, July 30

Wireless Russian official. —Southwards of Husiatin we repulsed an attempt to cross the Bmcz river.

We repulsed the enemy after a stubborn battle near Zareszck.

The enemy, persistently attacking, slightly pressed us back in the regions of Zbimiacz Kiselit and Stecova.

The enemy compelled us to retire from the Carpathians to the region of Kameral, in Moldavia.

The enemy pressed us back after allday fighting towards Myiotyza on the Roumanian front.

A Zeppelin dropped bombs without success on the islands of Tserel and Arensburg in the Gulf of Riga.

Wireless German official. —A considerable portion of our troops are now in Russian territory, after the battle eastward of Lbrucz.

Will Thorne, in a speech at Sheffield, referring to his visit to Russia, said the revolution was a soldiers ’ revolution. The mission learned that separate peace was drawn up on / March 14th, but the revolution thwarted the scheme. Munitions were deliberately held up at the instigation of the Romanoffs and Rasputins. He gave an instance where 22,000 munition wmrkcrs at one factory were sent home for three weeks at a stretch.

HEROES AND COWARDS.

LONDON, July 30.

A correspondent in the Berliner Tageblatt supplements Mr. Wilton’s story, revealing how a number of subordinate officers of several Moscow regiments and the Fifth Siberian army corps sacrificed themselves in battered trenches vainly endeavouring to stay the retreat of the Eleventh Army Corps. They steadfastly held the east bank of the Sereth while the British guns stationed on low hillocks near Tarnopol swept the lines of advance with splendid accuracy. The advance of the tViemy field guns ultimately outnumbered and silenced the British batteries. When the Russians fired Tarnopol before retreating, Belgian tanks fought gamely in the streets, endeavouring to cover the evacuation of wounded and stores during the last terrible scene. Then German guns and aeroplanes rained a shower of shells on the panic-stricken fleeing mob of mutineers and civilians, destroying them wholesale. Despite opportunities to enable the Russians to rally and drive out the Germans, at four o’clock in the morning of the 24th, a corps commander informed Commander Locker Lampson that two divisions had bolted, leaving a fifteen miles gap. He ordered the Britsh cars to protect this huge space. Working along, the cars caused great execution among the enemy. They encountered large forces at fifty yards range and mowed them down. Several cars were destroyed by ' direct hits by shells. The drivers were heroic. Though wounded, they continued to drive, some being twenty hours in their seats. The enemy’s cavalry repeatedly showed willingness to advance against the cars without support of heavy guns, which were slow in coming.

RUSSIA WILL FIGHT AGAIN VICTORIOUSLY. LONDON, July 30 The “Morning Post’s” Petrograd correspondent states that Russia will fight again victoriously, but only under proper rulers. She is now straigthening the sinuosities on the front, implying the relinquishment of additional territory, but also helping the Allies by drawing an increasing number of Gormans deeper into Russia. Fresh Russian troops will be substituted for the disbanded corps. There will be no more of the grand strategic scheme, but much that is infinitely more useful, the tactical work which General Alexieff during several months of the retreat kept the armies unbroken and inflicted ‘die maximum of injury on the Gerr°ns by short blows, frequently repeated, along the whole front. The enemy’s resources are already strained to the utmost to hold the territory occupied.

Four of the most revolutionary members of the Russian Workers and Soldiers’ Council have left London for Paris.

BRITISH ARMOURED CARS. LONDON ,July 30. Dealing with the experiences of the British cars, Mr Wilton, the war correspondent, .supplies interesting peeps of the retreat. The advancing Germans shouted M Hurrah, good Russians-” The latter latter flung their rifles away and ran for their lives. At another place, everybody was panic-stricken and ran away before the Germans were near. The enemy at Kozowa suddenly appeared. British machine-guns killed a hundred. Each car fired 3000 rounds. The Austrian advance was often incredibly slow. The Russian lines were unoccupied for two days after evacuation.

The hottest fighting occurred at Baraim, where the British ambushed the enemy in houses and courtyards. THE LABOURITES IN CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 31. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says the Russian delegates were cordially welcomed by many Parliamentarians, who were glad of the opportunity of learning the views of Russian Labourites. Newspapers are very sympathetic. The general impression is that the differences dividing the Russians, and French are less than was expected. The delegates insist that they will never assent to a separate peace. The betrayal of the Alliance would mean death to the Russian democracy’s aspirations. They realise that ten French departments are still invaded, and that Serbia, Belgium, Roumania, and Poland are groaning under the enemy’s heel. They say the people of France exaggerate the Maximalists’ influence. The retreat does not mean defeat, but was due to the fluctuations of -war,. {The J’epubjlic cannot be a reality unless a German victory is made impossible. The Russian (Socialists are united against any attempt at any untried (Socialistic experiments. LOYAL ROUMANIA. LONDON, July 30. Reuter’s Agency learns authoritatively that Germany made a big effort to secure a revolution in Roumania on similar lines to Russia, including immense propaganda among the army. All attempts were unavailing. Last week fifty Germans in Russian uniforms were tried and shot of the Roumanian authorities.