RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

BUKOWINA CAMPAIGN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Jan. 2S. The. Times' Petrograd. correspondent says that the fighting in Bukowlna is simmering .down, and a revival of large scale operations is not expected by experts. The enemy is industriously entrenching; and rail-making at Czeniowitz, and elaborately preparing the defensive, which, according to German practice, may at any moment become an offensive.

GIRL'S RESOURCEFULNESS. GERMANS DRUGGED. Petrograd. Jan. 28. A little girl o£ 17 was uwarded the St, George's Cross. Twenty Germans marched up to her father's farm in fourland, and the lieutenant threatened that she would be violated and the farm burnt unless she produced wine. The girl recalled tluit there were two barrels of old liqueur in the cellar. Before she brought it up she dropped in the liqueur a powder made from bluebells, which brings on drowsiness. The barrels were soon emptied and the Germans rolling on tile floor one after another. The girl tilled a bowl and gave it to the sentries, saying that it was the lieutenant's order. Then, returning, she disarmed the Germans, hiding their weapons in the cellar, while her father roped the limbs of' the insensible men. Finally the girl traversed the swamps and found a Siberian outpost. A few pails of ice-eold water woke up the Germans, who were horrified to find themselves prisoners.