RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 August 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MORALE IMPROVING _ .. _ . LONDON, August 14. Mr Wilton says there are more optimistic reports to the effect that the Russian armies' morale is improving and that there is a cessation of the wholesale retreat. He admits that the fighting efficiency of the armies is still an uncertain quantity, but optimism prevails and is spreading. ROUMA N I A. HUNS PREPARING AN OVERWHELMING BLOW LONDON, August 13. Marcel Hutin states that fourteen new Hungarian divisions and four Turko-Bulgarian divisions, have reinforced Mackensen, who intends an overwhelming battering blow. " _~ HOPEFUL NEWS ROUMANIANS SUCCESSFULLY FIGHTING

Wireless Russian official— We are supporting fee Roumanians. We have driven the enemy back in the OcnaGrozechetti region and captured a series of heights. We repulsed counter attacks in the Sloniku valley The Roumanians are obstinately attacking in the direction of Focsani. We held our positions to the westward of the Focsani Jud railway.