NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 7

NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

XARGE CAPTURES OF PRISONERS

-ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN NORTH

ERN SECTORS

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULTIES.

UNITED STATES GIVING GREAT ASSISTANCE.

iBY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATIOH-^OPYEIGHT.

(Received July 12, 11.55 a.m.)

PETROGRAD, July 11. Twenty-six thousand Austrians and Germans have been made prisoners since July 1. Between the 19th and 25th June General KornilofE also put out of action over 80,000 Austrians and Germans.

A heavy bombardment is proceeding .before Brzezeny, and also on the whole .line in the Dvinsk-Riga sector, thus preventing the Germans from transfer--ring reinforcements to Galicia, whither the enemy is hurrying up Bulgarians. Eighty thousand Transylvanian Rumanes, formerly in the Austro-Hun-.garian army, and now Russian prisoners of wai'j have expressed a, desire to join, the Roumanian army, and a very fine battalion of Rumanes has reached Jassy.

The "Death's Head" battalion of women has left Petrograd for the front, under Madame Bolchkarera, Admiral Skrydlofl's daughter, who fought beside her husband until he was killed, while General Brusiloff was scoring his brilliant success on the front.

United States aid is greatly assisting the/Provisional Government. America is lending Russia money at 3^ per cent, for building a second line of Serbian railway, and is giving ten thousand waggons to assist the defective Russian transport.

The Provisional Government is also facing a task of overwhelming magnitude in organising sixty millions of Voters, half of whom are illiterate, for the' election of a constituent assembly.