RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

THE NORTHERN FRONTGERMAN TBOOPS COT UP. Petrograd, Mp<& 9- "•' A communique Rays r Our artillery $i Lake Vcnton annihilated enemy detaei* monts, which were obliged to aba»d«i the trenches. We are still pursuing the enemy Qf the K,eraa»sliau region of Peril*. " •-, y GREAT CONCENTRATION. .-'. OF GERMAN AIRCRAIV, Time* and Sydney Sun SerVfeefc . : London, March 2, Petrograd reports a great concentrM ti«n of German aireraft «n the Rustian frent. Large quantities of bofcbs and projectiles are being stored ind new hospitals established, and there is e»er» indication of as intended offensive. Omcers have told the soldiers that .the flte* «f aircraft intends to make a gr«*» efi'crt during the next few motthl, iai the amy aust do the same. PORTUGAL, PORTUGAL'S ENTRY MORE TROUBLE PdR THE HUN. Times and Sydney Sun Service!, Received March 3, 0 p.m. London, March £. The German press i 3 furiou* at P«rt«gals seizure of ships. Theßerllatt Tageblatt estimates that of *',-total #f 1,900,000 total German tonnage.in neutral ports, 270,000 are in P«rta|*it 600,000 1n .North America, and ««,000 fr South America. MESOPOTAMIA AT TREBIZOND TURK CIVILIANS LEAVE Petrograd, March 9'The civil Turkish population is evaefc« •ting Trebizond.