RUSSIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 86, 7 September 1914, Page 8

RUSSIA

TRANSFER OF GERMAN TROOPS.

REINFORCEMENTS FOB PRUSSIA.

Received fl, 5.5 p.m. Paris, September 5.

The Rome correspondent of the jouinal Lo Matin says that five German army corps withdrawn from Belgium and North France have arrived in West Prussia.

BRAVERY OF JEWS.

Times and Sjdnsy Sun Services. Received 5, 5.15 p.m. London, September 5. The bravery of Jews in the Russiai army is revolutionising opinion there A Jewish medical student saved tin colors of his regiment as a last cxtrem ity during the terrible fighting in Easl Prussia,

TURKEY'S PREPARATIONS.

AN AMERICAN IMPRESSION

Times and Sydnsy Sun Services. Received 5, 5.15 p.m. London, September 5. The American impression of Turkey's preparations is reflected in a New York World cartoon showing the Sultan grinding his scimitar, and saying: "T, too, must do something for culture."

RUSSIA SQUARES AN ACCOUNT,

GERMANY WILL PAY DEARLY.

Antwerp, September 4,

. The newspaper Metropole states that Russia lias notified Germany of her miration to levy upon every German town oecupiod a contribution double that which Germany has exacted from Belgian towns.

RUSSIAN GENERAL'S DEATH.

STUCK TO HIS POST.

Received (1, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, September 5.

General Samsonofi would not heed warnings of danger, declaring: "My place is with my men." Presently a shell killed General Samsonoff and most of liia staff.