RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMANS BEATEN BACK. WITH HEAVY LOSSES, Admiralty per Wireless Press. I#ndon, January 27. A Russian official report states: After a h(wvy bombardment the Germans were beaten back to the eastward ofJialnoen, with heavy losses We liberated gas at Mitau, causing a great German panic. RUSSIA AND BRITAIN. 1 GROWING FRIENDSHIP. P«trograd, Jan. 28. M. ,Sn»onoff, the new Russian Ambassador to London, is quoted as saving' 'The alliance concluded with Britain against the common-enemy is now on a permanent basis of community of 'interests. I see in the growing • friendsnip of the twj nations a realisation of the most sacred dream of my life, tho safeguarding our children and grandclifldren of the benefits of a secure pe-ice of the whole world. It must be ncknow-h-djed that with such resources as ours the war will be actually won." SCARCITY OF FOOD. SUFFERINGS OF POORER CLASSES. four Meatless days, the" Government blamed. Times Service. Received Jan. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, January 28. The Times' Pctrograd correspondent,in the course of a special article dealing with tho scarcity/of food, after narrating the sufferings! of the poorer people who are compelled to wait in queues for hours in intense cold, says that necessities, with the exception of tea, have risen from two to ten times on peace prices. .There are now four meatless clays each week. Tho regulations of several departments overlap nnd the elaborate procedure necessary results in endless quarrelling and delay befor« supplies are obtainable. Admitting the inadequacy of the railways to cope with the military food transport, it is no wonder that people are.most angry at the Government's inefficiency. GERMAN ATROCITIES ON PRISONERS. Petrograd, Jan. 2S. The committee of inquiry into Gorman atrocities to prisoners publishes a statement of what a private in the Dublin Fusiliers saw at Mannheim. A group of Russian prisoners was surrounded by .in escort in marching order, and the captain proposed that the prisoners, work on the French front. Thsy ('eclined, whereupon the escort beat them with ride butts and stabbed them with bayonets. The officer beat thorn over the head with the flat of his sword and then used the point and wounded prisoners with a thrust. A train removed the Briiish prisoners, who protested loudly, and they were locked in larracks. ' •