RUSSIA'S TASK.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TASK.

' ' - - lII' .... T'.l-;-" ■ LAKES DISTRICT CAMPAIGN. GERMANS CLAIM A WIN. ' Received March 20, 9.35 p.m. Amsterdam, March 19. A Herman communique says: Russian attacks at the Drvsvjaty Lake, and also on both sides of Marogz Lake, began with the greatest violence, but were everywhere repulsed with extraordinarily heavy losses. We counted 9270 dead at Narooß Lake. Our losses were small. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. PREPARATIONS ON THE DVINA. Times and Sydney Sun Services, Beec-ived March 2fl. Ii an t>.?h. London, March 19. The London Times' correspondent at Petrograd says that a special consultative body is now drafting instructions for the Russian representatives at the Paris economic conference. A farreaching programme includes the defence of the Allied market against an influx of enemy and neutv:;! commodities, co-ordinating principles on which is based the presentation of demands to tiie enemy for compensation of war Josses, and post-war emigration between t!'.e Allwd countries. The Russkcc Slovo reports that the Germans are making elaborate technical preparations on the Dvina, similar to the offensive at Verdun. tHE NEW LOAN. Petrograd, March 19. The Russian loan will be at 5} per cent, redeemable in ten years. Tlie 'jovernmcnt ha a taken over the Putilofl' wQiis for the duration of the