Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 29 January 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

RUSSIA ASSUMES THE AGGRESSIVE. IN NORTH-EAST PRUSSIA. GERMANS RETREAT WESTWARD. Received 28, 11.20 p.m. Petrograd, January 28. The Russians on the north-east of Gnmbinnen have resumed tho aggressive, and advanced from Pilkalle n towards Tilsit, driving the Germans towards Lasdenen at the point of the bayonet. NO PREMATURE PEACE POSSIBLE. RUSSIAN APPRECIATION OF BRITAIN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 28, 5 p.m. London, January 28. M. Sazanoff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Committee of the Duma, said Britain was accepting all the responsibilities in the war that could be expected of her, and much more. There was no danger of a premature peace. MUTINOUS GERMAN SOLDIERS. DISSATISFIED WITH SACRIFICIAL TACTICS j London January 27. The Times' correspondent at Warsaw 5 describing the fighting at Sochaczew, says that prisoners related that the Germans strongly objected to assault practically impregnable positions. An officer, scenting trouble, ordered an immediate attack. The situation indicates that German soldierß feel a growing disposition to waste themselves without hope of success in response to the desperation of their commanders.