IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

RUSSIANS HALF CIRCLE HALICZ. THE CARPATHIAN'S ADVANCE. AUSTRIANS MAY BE SURROUNDED. BUDA'PRST FILLED WITH REFUGEES Received Sept. Jl, 5.50 p.m Borne, Sept. II). Tbe Russians now half circle llalicz, which they continue to bombard. The capture of Haliez would menace the Hank of the Guila Lipa line, also the second lust line of the Lemberg defences. The Russians continue their Carpathian advance methodically. The junction of the two armies will accomplish the surrounding of the Austrian*. The inhabitants of fourteen counties in Hungary have fled to Budapest, where the situation is serious, as there is a shortage of supplies. BULGARIANS EVACUATE VARSJA. Received Sept. 11, 5.50 p.m. Petrograd, Sept. 10. The Bulgarians are evacuating Varna. A ROYAL AMAZON

PRINCESS PERSISTS IN SOLDIERING Received Sept. 11, 5.50 p.tr Petrograd, Sept. 10. A romantic discovery was made .when a wounded soldier at the Kharkoff hospital was recognised as the Princess Volonsky, wlio is 22 years of age.. Her husband, father and -brother were killed early in the war. The princes* cut her •tresses and enlisted and fought for mouths on the south-west iront. Being discovered she was sent to Kie-fi', but eluded the guards and returned to the fighting line, where she was wounded. BRUSSILOFF INTERVIEWED. WAR ALREADY WONLondon, Sept. hfl. A Daily Chronicle correspondent liad an interview with General BriiswilolV, nlho said: "Ronmania's intervention secures my left flank. Aus'tro-Hungary cannot much longer withstand the honks of enemies. The army which was opposite me in June and July Ims been almost entirely exterminated, and a. conglomerate army of Austrians and Turks is resisting desperately in strong mountain positions." General Brussiloff was fully convinced that the Anglo-French- offensive will rupture the German front, and that it was an absolute certainty that the war was already won. He believed peace would come in August, 1917.

GENERAL ALEXIEFF'S ! CONFIDENCE. AUSTRIANS BADLY DEMORALISED. New York, Seipt. 10. General Alexieff, interviewed in Petrograil, said that if the Central Powers start a great eastern offensive Germany must provide the driving power, as the Turks can only send <IO,OOO men. Ho would hesitate to say that sunk an offensive was impossible, but was confident the Russians could beat it. lie would not say that the Austrian armies •wore crushed 1 , but they were badly de.moralised. Tlio Germans had filled gaps with twenty divisions, thus stiffening the Austrian,who were still badly disorganised. Russia's early defeat were due solely to lack of ammunition. Russia had munitions now. The Austrians were so shattered by the drive, which still continued, that tliey would require 400,000 Germans to cement them together. Asked ibout peace, lie said it was probably some distance off. Neither side had attained its object. There could be no thought of peace now; the war must follow its inevitable historic course. OFFICIAL REPORTS Pefcrograd, Sept. 10. A 'Russian eonimuni<(iie say*: In battles in the wooded Carpathians between August 31 and September (i the Russians took prisoner 1000 Germans. Seaplanes made two unsuccessful raids on Riiino Island in the Gulf of Riga and lrben Straits. London, Sept. 10. A German coinmunii)iie says: Apart | from repeated fruitless Russian attacks against the Stokliod the eastern situation is unchanged. The enemy continues gaining ground westward of Sohepots, but otherwise has been everywhere repulsed. DEFENCE OF LEJIBERd* Heme, Sept. 10. Austrian newspapers state that the last civilians have left Lemberg, and that a huge force of Germans:, Austrian's and Turks is concentrated ready to defend the city to the last man.