RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ON THE EASTERN FRONT. GERMANS LOSE THEIR NERVE, SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES. TACTICS OF DESPERATION London, Oct. 25. The Daily Graphic states that the Germans are being cut to pieces in most sectors wlieie the Russians are in su- ■ perior numbers. Their losses 'ire par- ! ticularly heavy on the Zlota Lipa, where ; the Austrians and Germans are intermixed. They always fight badly together. The Russians in a single day stormed six positions and took 5000 prisoners. There were terrible casualties when the Germans were .defeated in a great attack on the heights on the right bank of the river. One column in close marching order attempted to take advantage of inequalities in the terrain in order to get close to the Russian t trenches. Air scouts observed the ■ column, and it was caught in a pitiless ■ hail of shrapnel. The column and forces are believed to have lost 17,000 in a few hours. The enemy's murderous losses are due to the tactics- of desperation, Hindenburg is trying to copy Brusiloffs massed infantry attacks, but the battered Germans have lost the necessary nerve. The summary from the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Graphic of the situation on ueneral Brusiloil's front describes it as the grave of the German army. General Brusiloff has accounted i tor 100,000 Germans in three weeks. i'lelcl-Marslial Hindeivburg's cxperii ment of standing firm and trying to - hit 'back is nearly as costly and quite 1 as unsuccessful afc the earlier Austrian 3 tactics. The Kovel front is now a sec- - ond Verdun, and the Somme a running sore in Germany's side. Since the catasa trophic defeats in June, Germany has - been sending from the north and the 1 interior division after division, and s Hurling third-rate troops against e shrapnel, rifles and the bombs from the 1 Russian field fortifications. The princi- '- pal fighting is at Vladimir-Volynsk, where the Germans are vainly attemptd ing to dri<- General Kaledin back to LutsJt