Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 9 January 1915, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

ANOTHER ONSLAUGHT PREPARING. TRANSYLVANIA THE OBJECTIVE. CONSTERNATION IN BUDAPEST, London, January 7. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent reports that the Russians are preparing to burst into Transylvania. Budapest is in a state of consternation. Politicians are straining every nerve to prevent Hungary becoming" an independent State. COMPARATIVE QUIET ON THE VISTULA SOME TRENCHES RE-CAPTURED. Received 8, 10.35 p.m. Pctrograd, January 8. Official.—With the exception of an isolated action at Sukha, on the Bolimol front, there is complete calm on the left bank of the Vistula. The Germans, in order to approach our positions, tried siege methods, advancing in. certain places by mined saps, and using steel shields for cover. We regained trenches in the region of the village of Sukha raptured by the Germans. On the (ith, we captured five machine.guns and a number of prisoners. There is no change elsewhere.

BEFORE THE WAR. HOW THE ALLIES SOUGHT FOR PEACE. Petrograd, January B.' An Orange Book afforts the most striking testimony of the unprecedented lengths to which Russia, in conjunction with England and France, proceeded, hoping to avert the conflict, and shows that the Russian Ambassador was minutely informed of every German move at Constantinople. Reporting on September 10, he said that Enver Pasha had received a letter from Germany, intimating that the moment had arrived for Turkey to fulfil her obligations by the invasion of Egypt and landing at Odessa.