RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED. FORTIFIED HEIGHT CAPTURED. London, Feb. 18. A wireless Russian official message states that Germans, clad in white overalls, took the offensive south-west of Dvinsk and penetrated our front line, We immediately threw them out. We surprised and captured a fortified height south-westward of Okna. SHOCKING GERMAN ATROCITIES.

MORE DISCLOSURES. Petrograd, Feb. 17. A Russion commission of inquiry into German atrocities reports shocking atrocities. Unarmed wounded men were murdered in cold Wood, i\var prisoners burned alive, and Sisters of Mercy violated. Explosive bullets were used on an enormous scale; quantities have been discovered. The sufferings of the wounded were horrible, the enemy pouring corrosive, fluids over them. The report mentions that a German .Red Cross man twice shot wounded men with a revolver when they asked for bandages/ With a view of extracting information a Cossack had an electric needle connected to his wounded leg for half an hour, but heroically persisted in silence. This torture was repeated on the two following days and then red-hot irons were applied to his feet. The Cossack eventually escaped. REMOVING JEWISH RESTRICTIONS. Received Fob. 10, 8.30 p.m. Loudon; Feb. 18. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent states that 11 Protopopox's legit, lation will removs restrictions upon Jews entering commerce, and contract-in" for railways and forming limited companies. He has instructed the Governor of the'Nprovinccs to cease disturbing the Jews.

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