GERMANS THREE HUNDRED MILES FROM PETROGRAD.
POSSIBLE ATTEMPT TO SIEZE THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL.
CO-OPERATION OF FLEET ALONG THE COAST. H 'Received August 15, 5.30 p.m.! - Loxdox% August 14. " 91 The Spectator says the German left flank is only 300 miles from Petrograd. It now appears possible that the operations in the north "l do not form part of a vast enveloping movement, but are the beginning '. of an attempt to seize Petrogsad by a sudden dash along the coast road, to which the German Fleet would contribute by its local command Jl of the sea. The plan, says the Spectator, is formidable enough, but the Ger- ~% mans are mistaken if they suppose that the seizure of Petrograd 'will " paralyse Russia, Moreover, the Germans are already two months late, and Riga and Kovno are not captured. -"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15997, 16 August 1915, Page 7
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