RUSSIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA

RUSSIA* REVERSES. reported by the cekmax > legation. * ' GERMANS SIEZE POLAND, SERIES OF GKP.MAN SUCCESSES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 12, 5.15 p.m. mi ~ T)le Hague, August 11. Ine German Legation stated that German forces drove hack the Russian I [ 1°™ S > (lestl 'Wcd a cavalry brigade at Soldau, and scattered a division near Insterburg. East Prussia is now slight enemy - Go ™an losses were Tclnmstociliow, Katisli, Willuii. Julbarty ami other Russian frontier places ttaviMiecn occupied bv the Germans whom the Poles cheered. ' PoTarid EUSS ' anS haVe f VM ' d Kl,s . sian CZAR' 3 HANDS CLEAN. USED UTMOST ENDEAVORS FOR PEACE. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DISPATCHES. .St. Petersburg. August 11. ine ofncial dispatches previous to the war disclose provocative aggression by Austria and Germany and fix the responsibility of the war. They prove, that the Czar did his uttermost to avert war.

ALLEGED GERMAN OUTRAGES. MAYOR NEARLY BEATEN TO ■DEATH. CIVILIANS SHOT, St, Petersburg, August 11. An eye-witness states that on the German commander's order the Mavor ot Kalis;/, Poland, was nearly boat on to death, and the town council's messenger shot for fetching the Mayor, amattress and pillow. The manager of the local treasury was also shot, The Germans made hostages of the principal inhabitants, and fii*ed o.n civilians, of whom many were 'Killed.