BIG RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN CAUCASUS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10164, 1 September 1915, Page 5

BIG RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN CAUCASUS.

CAPTURES OF~MANY MEN AND MUCH MATERIAL. Received September 1. 8.20 a.m. PETROGRAD, Aug. 31. Official: In the Caucasus, in recent engagements to the 22nd, we captured 84 officers and 5129 men. Our cavalry killed over 2000 Turks. We took twelve guns and a quantity of arms and ammunition, two convoys of supplies, two camps with the headquarters' tents, and a large number of cattle. HUGE GERMAN LOSSES.

GERMAN SETBACK IN GALICIA. GENEVA, Aug. 31. The Russians between Rrestlitovsk and Bielsk are inflicting 15,000 losses on the Germans daily, and those between Bioisk and Grodno 20,000 daily. The capture of the town of Narcw cost the Germane 30.000. PETROGRAD, Aug 31. A portion of General Maekcnscn's army with the Austrians endeavoured to expel the Russians from their last hold in Galicia. Mackonscn. while developing an offensive on tlie Zlotahpa started a turning movement at Lutzk, southward of Vladimir, Volynski, but the only result was that the Russian rearguard engaged in a stubborn fight at Lutsk, covering the retreat of the main forces 1o the Polish region, which is unfavourable for a rapid German advance. It contains thick forests covering an area of 550 miles, with swamps and numerous streamlets preventing the enemy moving compactly on a wido front. Captured German cavalry scouts brought to Vilna. report that, the troops arc expecting new clothes before the winter campaign, for which Germany is actively preparing.

OFFICIAL REPORTS. GERMAN'S ADMIT SETBACK. PETROGRAD, Aug'. 31. A communique snys: The Germans are attacking the Eckauneunut railway and Boiershalen. There is no important "change, on-the Dvinsk front. At some points" wo assumed the offensiyo. r J'lu« enemy passed to the right of theNiemcn in the region of Olita. Our armies continue, to retreat. r,n the rest of the front, along tlie niiddlo Niemen, and towards the south as far as iho river Pripet, covered by rearguards, which on \]\c 28tji repulsed an attack in the region of Lipsk, inflicting heavy josses, also a stubborn offensive by large enemy forces from the west on ihe front Proniamv-Gcrm-dets AMSTERDAM. Aug. 31. A Berlin communique states: Ilindcnberg's armies arc lighting for the bridgehead, south of Frudriehstadt. Tlie Germans ad\uncing towards the Grodno-Vilna railway captured 2000 prisoners. The enemy near Uorodok evacuated positions on tlie. eastern border of the forest of Bialystok. Prince Leopold's army forced the crossing of the Upper Narcw at several places, and the right wing is advancing on Pruzoua. General Mackcnscn in pursuing the enemy reached the Muckawice region, capturing 3000 rearguards. The advance of the German and Austto-Hungarian troops, who broke through north of Rrozezany, has been stopped at some points on the Strypa. owing to strong Russian counter-attacks." GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE WON CAMPAIGN. Received September 1. 9.0 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 31. The Frankfurter Zeitung, writing on the fall of Brrstlitovsk, declares that, the campaign in Russia is definitely won. Russia's plan of withdrawing her armies to avoid annihilation, has been unsuccessful because the losses of prisoners and guns lias been equivalent to a crushing defeat AMSTERDAM, Aug. 31. The Governor of Warsaw has issued a decree to manufacturers, bankers. and tradesmen threatening to close the businesses and punish with (ire year*' imprisonment any who refuse to trade with German subjects. AN INCIDENT IN THE GREAT RETREAT. Received Ausrust 1, 1125 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 31. The YossiH'he Zeitung's correspondent who visited Brestitovsk stutes that tlio Russians lired the whole town and the greater part was burnt down. The ruins are still smouldering. The inner forts and stations were wholly destroyed. Only the church of tlie blue domes and golden crosses was undamaged. i GERMANY LOSES RUSSIA'S TRADE. PETROGRAD. Aug. 31. Prince Sliahorski. Minister of Commerce, in an interview, said the war had dealt German trade with Russia a crushing blow. If public- opinion has its way Germany will never l>c allowed to recover her former position. We should particularly welcome the co-operation of Englishmen in the industrial sphere. All mills and factories at Warsaw that were directly useful to the State had been transferred into the interior. Many of these were Russian, but their propinquity to the frontier made them susceptible to Germar influence. The opening of the J)au«tmelift> will mean the steady gravitation of Russian industry to the Black Sea basin. ' I