IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1916, Page 5

IN THE EAST.

THE DUPED POLES.

REFUSE TO PEBFiETUATB TYRANNY.

Received Oct. 21, (1.30 pan.

Berne, Oct. 20. The creation of the German-Polish Logion resuited in a fiasco. There were enrolled 18,000 Poles. 'Eight Russian brigades out of a total of twelve mutinied at the Iraginning of October and were imprisoned at Brest Litovs'k, 6000 others being sent into the interior of Austria, as unreliables. The Legion enlisted in the belief that it was going to fght for an independent Poland, but the Poles have now discovered that they were fighting to perpetuate German tyranny. A STUBBORN BATTLE. London, October 20. r A Russian communique says:—A stubborn battle is proceeding north of Kiselin. The enemy is violently attacking north of Kuropatnika and south of Svistelniki. The enemy offensive south of Dorna Watra was repelled. The enemy sustained heavy losses in the Dodbrudja. A submarine sank two Turkish steamers in the Bosphorus region. BOTH SIDES COXCENTRATrXG.

iPetrograd, October 20. There is a bitter struggle along the Volhynia line, east cf Vladimir-Volinsky and Sokal, where the Germans have concentrated artillery. 'Both sides are concentrating to the utmost on the Roumanian front. Before winter the Germans desire to knock out Roumania, and the Russians are making an effort to obliterate the possibility of German danger, hence the extreme violence of the struggle on General Brusiloffs front and at Dorna Watra, where the Russian? anA Roumanians join up.