RUSSIA REDIVIVUS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA REDIVIVUS.

OI'TLVriS'HC FEELIXCS. FAILUHE OF GERMAX SCHEME. Received Oct. 7, 8.30 p.m. Potrograd, Oct. 7. The feeling- is much more optimistic in Stall' quarters, and the belief is growing that the bottom has fallen out of Geneia! von Hindenburg's third grandiose scheme to smash the Russian armies. The natural obstacles to the German advance have enormously increased. Exceptionally heavy rains are flooding the rivers. OX THE DVINSK FRO N'T. Only nil the Dvinsk front are the Germans showing their old energy and tenacity. Here" General von Beulow lias mounted eight-inch guns, but Dvinsk, though only protected with earthworks, is holding out. The Russians north and south of Dvinsk continue to capture village after village, with serious German losses. There was a typical light at Daninshevo, on the Vilia, where the Germans were driven out of the town, but repeatedly counter-attacked. Finally they brought up their reserves to within two hundred yards of the Russian centre. Two Russian companies caught them on the flanks, and the attackers were annihilated. The German troops are utterly exhausted by five months' lighting, while the Russians are showing a recovery with the help of endless human and natural resources. The squares and open places in Petroeiad are filled with new ioidiers.