RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS.

Evening Star, Issue 16198, 21 August 1916, Page 6

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS.

FIGHTING TOWARDS KOVEL. SUCCESS NEAR THE CAR. PATHIANS. DIFFICULTIES IN KURDISTAN LONDON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 11.10 a.m.) A Russian communique states : We captured Chervische Farm ami several heights along the Stokhod. There is. stubborn lighting for Toboly, which changed hands. several times, but now remains in our possession. In the Carpathian foothills we captured the heights westward of Jablonitza and Voronka. and repulsed attack's agaiiust our heights north of Kirlibaba (an tho Bukovrina frontier). In 'lVrkoy in Asia fightuig continues in the ■direction of Diarbekir. Wo are overcoming th© difficulties of the almost inaccessible ridgo westward of the Bingkdan Mountains. Fighting continues south-west or Lake Urumia.

TURKS OPPRESS GREEKS

OX BLACK SEA FRONT.

ATHENS, August 20. (Received August. 21, at 11.10 a.m.)

The condition of the Greeks on the. Black Sea coast of Asia Minor is deplorable. The Turks, owing to the Russian advance, aro clearing out the inhabitants of the villages, and are sending them on foot into the interior to concentiation camps. They are almost focdless. Tho 'furies en route rob these pitiful caravans of every possession. The children are taken_ to the villages to be converted to Isla-mism, and the soldiers are committing brutalities on the women and girls. GERMAN SOCIALISTS CIRCULATE HOME TRUTHS. WASHINGTON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 9.35 a.m.) The Social Democrats in Germany have, secretly circulated thousands of copies of an anti-submarine, anti-Government circular, wherein they den-ounce the U boat war as international murder. The circular says: " The crazy German Imperialistic agitators stupidly * provoked a world-war, and then added futile submarining, in the spiing of 1915 our braggarts were cracking jokeo, and threatening to starve England by our submarines" This was utter foolishness. Such a blockade would require a hundred submarines for every dozen, the Germans arc able to build, and even then its success would bo doubtful. This campaign culminated in sending hundreds of women and children to a grisly death in the Lusitania, causing a world-wide cry of horror. Our Govern" ment promised the Germans victory, but it is more likely that we shall repeat our experience at Yerdun, where more than a hundred thousand Germans were driven to death in order to take a couple of unimportant positions.

SSNKBNG AT SSGHT. AMERICAN WHITEWASH. WASHINGTON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 9.5" a.m.) Secretary Lansing announces that official inquiries contradicted the European reports that Germany is violating her pledges regarding submarine attacks'"\vithout warning. MORE GERMAN PLOTS. DISCOVERY IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, August 20. (Received August 21, at 9.20 a.m.) The ' New York Times ' has published the text of four jumbled letters written by a prominent German agent and sent from Berlin. When these letters v.-cre pieced together thev showed a request for.a fund of from IOO.QOOdoI to SOO.OOOdoI for the purpose of financing new plots here. The letters comprise a new code, the first words of each of the four letters forming complete sense, then the second words, and so on. ■ The writer said that other plots had been badly bungled, and ho calls Count Von Bernstorff a pliant diplomat who is or no value whatever. ARMENIAN ATROCITIES, LONDON, August 20. ' (Received August 21, at 12.30 p.m.) Kev. ilr Buxton, secretary of the Armenian fund, has arrived from the- devastated regions. He states that originally there were 2,0C0,0C0 Turkish Armenians, of whom halt a, million have toeen massacred, a million have been deported, and 200.C00 escaped to tains and into Russian soil. Hundreds of •thousands were interned in M.wupocaiuia and were inaccessible to British rcik'l They were suffering untold miseries, privations, outrage, and murder. Numbers of them had been forced to labor on tli-a Bagdad railway. AVIATION FATALITIES. Near Loekken, on the west coast of Jutland, the body of a German aviator named Zugmann was washed ashore. The head and hands were missing. The aviator belonged to the Zeppelin Ll9 crew, which wa shot down at the time it was violating Holland's neutrality. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned at the! inquest held on Julv 23 at Marylebono on Second-lieutenant George Vernon Aimer, aged 29, of the Royal Flvmg Corps, who died in hospital last Tuesday from injuries received in an aeroplane accident. The evidence, showed that the deceased, who came from New Zealand, and was a most competent aviator, was flying at a height of between 3,000 ft and 4,000 ft, when his machine swerved, wobbled, and then crashed to the ground', descending almost vertically. AIR COMBAT. A Raissian officer, who arrived recently at Retrograd, gives details of a thrilling air fight that took place near Baranovitcin on May 3D between a Russian aeroplane and a Gorman albatross. The combat occurred in the middle of the day, under a cloudless sky, and every detail of it was plainly seen from the Russian positions. As soon as the albatross appeared above the horizon, obviously bent upon an examination of the enemy positions, a Russian aviator, accompanied by an observer, ascended for the purpose of chasing and attacking the German n achine. When the pilot of the albatross observed this he began to ascend very rapidly, and attempted to fly away to the westward. The Russian pilot, however, caught up with and gradually ascended towards the enemy aeroplano over the German lines. Shrapnel began to burst all round the Russian aviators, but thev persisted in the attack, and the two ma"chines engaged in a desperate battle. The Russian opened a machine-gun fire. and the German observer replied with revolver fire. Then a startling sight was seen. The Russian pilot looped the loop several times over his astonished enemy, and thus gained the position ho desired in the rear of the German machine. The Russian observer then reopened a hot ma-chine-gun fire, and soon afterwards the albatross burst into flames and f ell to earth amid a cloud of smoke. The Russian aviators returned in safetv. j

...■; "I SHALL DIE AT SEA." •'. /The Toulon jonrnal 'Je Dis Tout' for June 19 narrates the following anecdote concerning Lord Kitchener: When tho War Minister came some three months ago to the British front he met at Dunkirk Commandant De Balancourt, to whom he mentioned that a "Jack Johnson" had dropped, not far from him. "That'did not alarm me," said Lord Kitchener, "because I know that I shall die at soa." BERLIN'S LATEST SCHOOL SONG. The ' Vorwarts' censures severely the latest song which Berlin school children are obliged to sing. It quotes from tho ' Turmer,' a journal connected with educational interests, that the School Council of Berlin have authorised a two-voice song doaling with the children's food, and of which the opening lines are: "Mamma, mamma, we do not want fat; do not worry about it." The 'Turmer' objects to the use of the word "mamma" as of foreign origin, and would like to see" the word "mother" 'used instead;, but, as ' Vorwarts ' points out. it does not object to these buttorless bairns being taught tins silly and lying ditty. The children Jo want butter, and the' teachers know they want butter, and so do the School Council, but they are- stuffing these unfo--tunato children with false and mawkish sentiment which lias no justification. Better were the children taught to sing • •'Mamma, we do want fat, bub in Hie interests of the Fatherland wo are determined not to worry about it." PENALTY OF PATRIOTISM. (3eneral Von Bissing's policy of is in "full blast A. recent court martial at Namur sentenced tho Belgian Public Prosecutor (M, Albert Capello Henry) to a tine of o.OC-0 marks (about £250). with tho alternative of 200 days - imprisonment, for keeping a Herman subject in prison, contrary to (he orders recently issued by tho Governor-General (Von Hissing). The same tribunal sentenced Miss Netty Gadnel, of Liege, to a, term of penal servitude for aiding young Belgians to join the tselgiau army. OFF TO THE FRONT. On Friday night, at the joinery factory oi Messrs Hogg and Co.. Mr Albert -M'JJouald wns the recipient of a wrist watch, pocket book, ;nid knife, on tho occasion of his leaving with the 20th Kemiorcomcnts. Mr Benton (manager) made tho presentation, and in a neat speech wished him God speed and a safe return, to which Mr M'Donakl suitably replied. Thirty members of the staff have now gone on active service. PRIVATE SKINNER.

Private Skinner, who was killed in France last month while serving with the Australian infantry, was 2'J years of age and the eldest son of Mr James Skinner! a wed-known resident, of this City. Deceased was a native of Diinedin,\iiid was educate,-! at the Christian Brothers' School lor a tune ho was laboratory assistant to the late Professor Black, lie then, went to sea, travelling pretty well all over th* work!. Tie v; a , j„ the Marshall Islands when war broke out. Ho at once left for Synney. where he enli.Ud and left for T y ! , . t "..- IJ v was :vfc the 01 ''Siiiiil landinfr at l.allijioli, and served throiudi campaign. He has another brother in 1-ranee. Sor,-eant Skinner, who lei'i with the Mam Xew Zealaml Bo<ly. Another l-nuher is Sergeant Skinner, of'the Central hattery. Ocean Bear!,. ;ln d the well-known Olago lootoallei-. Do:cased was a nephew "' -' 1 ;- li 'i' ■'•l;mner, who is leaving as chaplain with the nest New Zealand Reinforcements. A cable has been received from Serjeant Vv. Gallon, of the 121 hj stating that he is well, and is leaving Sling Camp. Kngiaud, immediately for the front. * l 7nl C C "-- h wn ' s in thii; issue accredited to liciimps' has appeared in that iournal, but only where expressly stated is such news tho editorial opinion of 'The times. ]