GERMANS SLOWING DOWN.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1917, Page 5

GERMANS SLOWING DOWN.

RUSSIANS FALLING BACK. Petrograd, Sept. 10. The German advance is slowing down. The Russians have occupied new positions in the Weden-Wolmar hill country. The advancing Germans are exposed to a flank attack from the Russians near l'riedrichstadt if the Russians are disciplined enough to use their strength. The Puissian right flank on the coast is retiring to avoid encirclement, but is not hard pressed. The centre is falling back under stress of constant German attacks. A DIVIDED CABINET. GUREHO EXPELLED. Reuter Service. Petrograd, Sept. 10. The Bourse Gazette announces a fresh split in the Cabinet between the Constitutional Democrats and the Socialists. General Gurkho was expelled from Russia to-day. TREACHERY AT RIGA. REINFORCEMENTS NOT SENT. GERMANS KNEW WEAKEST SPOT. » United Service. ; :' v , , Received Sept. 11, 11.30 p.m. London, Sept. 11. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent says that a member of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Committee belonging to the Twelfth Army, which defended Riga, reveals the apparent treachery as to the fall of the town. General Brusiloff promised reinforcements, which he did not send. The Germans, who outnumbered the Russians, were evidently informed of the weakest spot, breaking through the point held by tlio untrained territorials. They also located the Russian batteries exactly, and put them out of action. PLOTTERS GO TO. FINLAND. Stockholm, Sept. 10. M. Bradmajoff, the ex-Czar's secretary, General Ourko, Mademoiselle Vorobova, cx-lady-in-waiting, and several others implicated in the plot in favor of the Czar, and are now in Finland on their way to Sweden.