IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

FUTURE OF POLAND. . AUSTRIA RENOUNCES HER . "CLAIMS." Received August 24, 5.5 p.m. Berne, August 23. The Journal Geneve affirms that owing to disastrous defeats Austria lias reaounced all pretensions to Poland, which falls to Germany. The latter" annexes the province of Suwalki, and the remainder will be incorporated in the new 'Polish kingdom, probably with '.Prince Leopold of Bavaria as King. A military convention gives Germany absolute power over the Government of Poland, while a commercial • treaty subordinates Polish interests to Germany. The Allegmeine Zeitung denies that General Mackensen is on the West front, | and states that he is commanding against Salonika.

AUSTRIA'S VANISHED ARMIES. TOTTERERS AND TODDLERS REQUIRED. Received August 24, 0.-jO p.m. Berne. August 24. The Austrian General Staff recommends thi raising of the military age to 00 years and lowering to 16, in view ot the enormous losses. A RENEGADE RUSSIAN. OPENLY HOSTILE TO BRITAIN. Petrograd, August 23. The Government is being urged to prose-cute the leader of the Extreme Right, M. Bulatzel, who, regarding Mr. Asquith's .declaration as to the punishment of those responsible for international crimes as directed at the Kaiser, wrote, an article containing a scurrilous diatribe against Britain, who is planning a tribunal sucli as passed sentences on Mary Queen of Scots and Joan of Arc. The British army, he says, has advanced a few hundred yards in two years, so the task of taking the Kaiser prisoner is presumably imposed on Russia. The war thus will not end when Russia is able to conclude an honorable peace, but when Russia ha? laid low the Hohenzollcrn dynasty. M. Bulatzel practically advocated a separate Russo-German peace.

GOOD RESULTS NEAR | BRODY. i ENEMY SUSTAIN HEAVY LOSSES. London, August 23. A Ru-.-ian communique says: We replied to gas attacks southward of Krevo, causing heavy losses to the enemy. Southward of Brody we resumed the offensive, and repelled the enemy everywhere. We captured two heights near the source of the Pruth, on the Hungarian frontier. We drove back the Turkish offensive with the eo-operation of the fleet. Our offensive is developing westward of Lake Van. A German communique says: We stormed new positions at Stara and Wipszyna. and made good progress in clearing the highlands west of Ostrovo. We repulsed Serbian attacks at Moglena» MATTERS QUIET. Received August 24, 6.40 p.m. Petrograd, August 23 A communique reports that the position is unchanged. ■DEVICES OF THE DAMNED. Paris, August 23. The newest enemy device is a bomb which explodes laterally, causing mutilation and death over an area of thirty yards. A flotilla of aeroplanes is dropping these bombs on the Russians in the Pinsk marshes where dug-outs are impossible.