RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ON THE OFFENSIVE. MARIIAU LAW AT MQBO6W. London, Oct. 18. A French wireless message • states that all the German attacks cm the Russian front have been repulsed and numerous Russian offensive actions have been successful. Mr. Stephen Graham attributes martial law at Moscow to a»ti-Gennan riot 3, in which £3,600,0001 worth of damage was done to the foreign elements in Moscow district. The riots were engineered by Germans. M.Khvosteff, the new Minister of the Interior, is trying to uproot subterranean German Tirflnenee. The strictest censorship of farternal news in Russia prevails. THE ATTACK ON DVINSK. A COSTLY EFFORT. KAISER AND GENERAL DISAGREE. Received Oct. 20, 810 pan. London, Oct. 19. The Paris Journal's Fetrograd correspondent says that the attacks at Dvinsk cost the Germans eight thousand casualties. Prisoners state that the defeats have provoked a serious misunderstanding between General Hindenburg and the Kaiser. TERRIFIC FIGHTING. EXASPERATED RUSSIANS. WIELD THE BAYONET WITH EFFECT. Received Oct. 20, 11.10 p.m. Petrograd, Oct. 20. A communique states: Terrific fighting in the Northern sector continues. We brilliantly followed up our success on the Middle Strv, capturing many prisoners and machine-guns, north of Rafalonka. We stormed Tchartorysk, and, turning the enemy's flanks, captured seven hundred of the First Kronanrinz Grenadiers and nine guns. Owing to the Germans' use of explosive bullets the Russians became exasperated, and bayoneted a large number of the same regiment. The pursuit continues. STORMING THE TRENCHES. VALOR OF THE RUSSIANS. Received Oct. 20, 11.10 p.m. Petrograd, Oct. 20. Experts claim that the Germans are utilising a railway in the fortified narrow passage between the Lakes, and every resource of military engineering has been resorted to. Hence every step must be won by-hard fighting. One typical example is this. The Germans were entrenched at Height 6G by means of trenches along a series of terraces up the slopes of the hill, all well furnished with machine-guns, lie Russians, however, rushed the Hill at the point of the bayonet, killing the majority of the defenders. MUNITIONS OUTPUT SUPPLY TREBLED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, Oct. lfl. The Daily Mail's Odessa correspondent says that new orders to the southern armies tell them not to spare ammunition as supplies are fully organised and the Russian output has more than tebled in four months*