THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 432, 11 August 1915, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN FRONT

GERMANS PUSHING EASTWARD. i-RAGA I’ALLS INTO THEIR HANDS. (Received 10, 2.30 p.m.) Amsterdam,, Aug. 9. An official Berlin communique states that Novo Georgicvick is now cut off eastwards of the town. W<- captured several thousand Russians at- Warsaw. We have occupied Praga and ar ’ icivam ing further eastward. General Wayrsch has crossed the Garwolen-Ryki road north east ward of Ivangorod. General Mackenziscn’s left wing has pushed the Russians back across the Wiet-pz. Our centre and'our right wing arc approaching the Ostrow. Gattsk, Urrusk line.

THE HYPOCRITE’S LAMP

FOR THE TOMB OF CIIUSADEE’S FOE.

(Received 10, 2.30 p.m.) Paris. Aug. t.». Advices from Damascus state that the Kaiser's Arabian lamp, of his own design for Saladins tomb, was presented with full ceremony.

FIGHTING AT SEDD EL BAHR

TURKS CLAIM TO CAPTURE BRITISHERS.

(Received 10. 2.30 p.m.) Constantinople, Aug. 9. A communique states that during the fighting at Sedd el Bahr we captured 60 Englishmen, including a major and two lieutenants.

SERVICEABLE STEEL HELMETS USED BY FRENCH TROOPS. (Received 10, 3.0 p.m.) Paris, Aug. 9. The troops are already furnished with 300.000 steel helmets painted grey. They are hardly visible at a distance. Already specimen of the casques have been received from the front, after undergoing enemy s fusilade bear marks of bullets which would have killed men wearing ordinary kepis.

REPRISALS DISCONTINUED.

Paris, Aug. 9.

The "Petit Journal” states that Germany has discontinued reprisals on 5000 Frenchmen.

DISCOUNT RATES STEADIED.

RATE FOR TREASURY BILLS

ADVANCED

(Received 10, 2.45 p.m.) London, Aug. 9.

The Bank of England has advanced the rate for Treasury Btl s, of all dates, to 4.1 per cent. This is producing a steadying effect on discount rales.

SIR R. BORDEN AT BRISTOL.

TIME TO GIVE THE KNOCKOUT BLOW.

(Received 10, 2.45 p.m.) London, Aug. 9. Sir R. Borden, Premier of Canada when receiving the Freedom of Bristol, said that the comradeship of the men from the widely separated Dominions at the Dardanelles and in France would ensure the more splendid unity of the. Empire. When we have fully rolled up our sleeves we might look for the knock-out blow, inasmuch as Britain would then be fighting Germany on equal terms as regards munitions.

ROLL OF HONOUR.

THE DARDANELLES

LATEST LIST.

LOCATION OF AVOUNDED. Wellington, Aug. 9, 1.15 p.m. Disembarked at Malta from Hospital ships between 14th and 20t-h Julv. OTAGO BATTALION.

Slightly Sick. —Privates. G. AV. Pearce, R. Maguire, C. C. Movvbery, J. J. Hickey, and D. McLeod; Sergt-Major H. Nicholsen and Pvt. A. H. Fitzgerald, A. C. Mills, W. B. Hutchison, H. T. Folley, J. W.- Tobin, W. Pudnev, T. J. Healey, AV. Busch). J. A. Saipe. D. W. McDougall, A. J. Cross, AV. McPhersoh, J. M. Gillies, R. G. Lcedon. A. J. Clarke, W. Little, Corp!. G. F. Webster, Bugler S. Jackson. Wellington Battalion. —Sergts. A. Middleton, M. AV. Poulson, A. AVheeler, A. G. Jennings, Q.M.Sergt. A. R. Mclsaac, Corpls. E. H. Atkey, M. T. Archibald, Pvts. E. P. Zander. AV. Hayward, A. G. Harris. E. C. Knyvett, J. V. Mahoney, A. Kitto. H. Old, AV. J. Edwards, R. D. Collins. AV. Dunn, AV. T. Bartlett. D. G. Johnston, T. C. Gattrel, D. R. .McKay, J. 11. O’Sullivan, R. Glendining, AV. I). J. Evans, H. G. Fenn. C. V. McHardie, AV. F. Liddicoat, A. A. Charleston. P. A. Banks, G. S. Ward, I. H. Milburn, R. Dunbar, and AV. Rawlings. Otago Mounted. —Tprs. E. L. Davidson, C. Samon, AV. Maloney. A. H. Leckie. AV. J. Dillon, C. P. Harrex. J. R. Matheson, H. H. Congreve, G. S. R. Steele, and A. Gregory. N.Z. Field Artillery.—Gunners G. A r . AV. Fa’der. E. F. Newman, L. Dunn, ('. D. Boulton, S. 11. AA’ilson. Corpl. A. J. Coutts, Bch’, R. AVait, Gunner H. A. Downes.

LIFE IN THE TRENCHES. J.ETTER FROM GENERAL GODLEY. MEN AVANT TcFfIGHT IN THE OPEN. AA'ellington, Aug. 10. In a letter to Colonel Campbell, coast defence commander, General Godley speaks in t'he highest terms of the officers and men undet; him, and especially of artillery, which he savs “has (lone extraordinarilv well.”

Referring to the spirit of the men and life in the t renches, he says:— “Going round the trenches, notwithstanding the heavy casualties and daily toll that shells and snipers take of them, the one cry from all the men is to know when they are going to advance, and their one wish is to get out and fight the Turk in the open. Mining and countermining, bombs, periscopes, periscope rifles, sand bags, and barbed wire and corrugated iron, are our weapons of warfare and vve spend most of our time grovelling in saps or mines or crawling and crouching in trenches trying to avoid snipers.