Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 268, 22 April 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

ALTERING THE MAP. ' .HEAVY FIGHTING Iff GALICIA. Rome, April 20. The Messagero has published an interview with Professor Milukoff, leader of the Constitutional Democrats* in the Russian Duma. ' The professor said that Russia was ready to fight for a year, and delays of .two. months would not disturb her pati.ence. Russia's programme provided for liberty in the Black Sea and fie possession of the straits leading to it, implying that Russia proposed to occupy Constantinople. A written agreement to that effect had already been concluded between the Allies. An international commission would solve the question of the Ottoman public debt. Six vilavjets in Armenia would become autonomous ,under the suzerainty of Russia. Another t great Islamic empire was probable under British rule from Egypt to India. The latter country would be the seat of the Caliphate. Servia would get Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dalmatian coast. The old Roumanian territory would be added to Roumania, and Gahcia would be part of Poland, which would be autonomous.

The Duma would quickly consider the questions of religious liberty, free speech t and self-government in Poland. Russia would grant equal rights to the Jews. . Bulgaria had been offered part of Macedonia, but the Bulgarians had asked -for other districts.

If Italy joined the Allies she would hare Trente. Trieste, and Pola, and a share of Asia Minor.

London, April 20. j It is reported from Bucharest that heavy fighting has begun near the frontiers of Bukovina and Bessarabia. A correspondent at Bucharest states that a reliable authority who has arrived from Austria states that Vienna and Budapest are strongly fortified. On the left bank of the Danube Vienna is * protected by log Ines of trenches, barricades and barbed wire. The sum of [£2,800,000 has been spent upon fortifications. The price of food is rising enormously. Large numbers of troops are being sent to the Carpathians.

GERMAN SAVAGERY VERIFIED. ; A RUSSIAN INSTANCE. Received April 21. 0.15 p.m. London, April 21. The Evening News correspondent personally interviewed Panasuk at Petrograd, who was tortured by the Germans, a nurse exposing a mutilated ear to show the extent of savagery. His nose was also twisted by a blow from an officer's fist. AUSTRIANS' TEMPORARY ADVANTAGE. RUSSIANS RETAKE THE GROUND. Received April 21, 0.35 .m. Petrograd, April 21. Official: The enemy m the direction of Stryj gained a footing on the heights >\t Arnwzik, but wo counter-attacked and recaptured the position, taking a number of prisoners. We mined Gorman trenches in Eastern Rozankaranz. and took the position at the point of the bayonet, capturing prisoners and guns.