BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1916, Page 7

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

GRAVE FOR THE GERMANS^

HINDENBURG'S COSTLY EXPERI-

MENT.

NO MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN AUS-

TRIAN TACTICS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,

(Received Oct. 26, 11.25 a.m.) ;. LONDON, Oct. 25. ***** The Daily Graphic's Petrograd correspondent, in a summary of the situation on 's front, describes it as grave for the German army. Brusilbff has accounted for 100 3 000 Germans in iiiree w^eks, and Hindenburg's experiv%aent of standing firm and -trying to hit back has proved nearly as costly and quite as unsuccessful as the earlier Austrian tactics. The Kovel front is now a second Verdun," and the Somme Has become a running sore in Germany's side since her castrophic defeats in June. Germany is sending from the north and! interior division after division, and is hurling third-rate troops against shrapnel, rifles, Bombs and Russian field-fortifications. The principal lighting has been at Vladimir Volynski, where the Germans are vainly attempting to drive General Kal.ed.in back to .' -Luck..."..- -':■ ■'■ ''"■':■'"'; ': . .<;''-''.' ■■■ .-. ; ..-