RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT. V 'EfiSED BACK Q\ SERETL. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. Received Jan. 21, ''.s p.m. London, Jan 20. A Russian official report states: Considerable oncmy forces, attacking on the Mancschi front, in tbe vicinity of tue river Rnn.nek. pressed our letachmonts back towards the Sereth. The enemy exclusively used explosive bullet 3 zcitlrer.st of Rakotiaeh, also in the Caucasus. BUREAUCRACY HELD RESPONSIBLE London, Jan. 10. The Manchester Guardian says that the Duma and people hold the governing bureaucracy responsible for the economic disorganisation. The present troubles arose from the Duma's endeavors to secure the confidence of the Government and the people, but the reactionary Pvotopopoff remains Minister of the Interior. M. Schnvaief's retirement is a groat How in the Duma, because ho, with the Mini-tor of Marine, when M. Stunner was dismissed for intriguing for a secret peace, assured the Duma that the campaign would be strenuously prosecuted. M. Sehuvaiefs retirement perpetuates the internal troubles. ROUMANIAN- SITUATION IMPROVING. Potrograd, Jan. 10. Telegrams from Roumania indicate that the situation is steadily improving. The Austrc-German offensive has been arrested and the Rtisso-Roumanians 'ire developing a vigorous cou'ntdr-attack, dr'ving tbe enemy bacK several kilolitres on almost the whole ;Vont and removing the menace to Galatz. IJeavy rains and floods are Tendering trench fighting an iinpossibSli'./, and transforming the operations into a ivar, of manoeuvre. The numerical proportion of forces has changed in favor of I,'ne Rrssian? and Roumanians. LAST YEAR'S CAPTURES. Petrograd, Jan. in The Russians in 1010 captured 5770 officers. 420,000 men, 527 guns, 1 fill I Maxims and 411 trench mortars, of which General BrussilofFs three months' operations on a 300-mile front yielded 80 per cent. ENEMY ATTACKS DEFEATED. London, Jan. 19. A Russian official message states that the enemy took up the offensive in the rcion of Zborov and part of a detachment entered cur trenches, but was promptly driven out. The enemy bombarded the Okna and Dordancshti, and the valleys of the Trotus and Oituz.