ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16019, 10 September 1915, Page 7

ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES.

MUNITIONS CRISIS OVER. FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SUPPLIES AIRCRAFT NEAR LONDON. REPRISALS BY ALLIED AIRMEN. The Russians have won an important victory at Tarnapol, Is Galicia. The Germans sustained enormous losses. The monitions crisis is stated to be over in both Russia and France. The wharves at Vladivostok are loaded with war materials from Japan, Europe, and America, and the Siberian railway is almost wholly given over to their transportThe Tsar has taken chief command of the Russian forces on sea and land. M, Cruppi, ex-Foreign Minister of France, says that millions of fresh troops are being organised in Russia. The President of the Duma declares that Russia will fight for five, or even ten, years to achieve her objectives, one of which is Constantinople. The Germans are building narrow railways through the Polish marshes. They are guided by men who show an intimate knowledge of the localities. An instance is given of the Germans destroying the features of such guides with acid to prevent them being recognised by the RussiansWhen the Germans approached Brest Litovsk they found it a sea of fire. Only one family remained in the town. German aircraft dropped incendiary and explosive bombs in the London district on Wednesday night. A few casualties occurred. Some fires broke out, but were suppressed. The same night Zeppelins raided the eastern counties, three Zeppelins taking part. Ten civilians were killed, 42 injured, and three are missing. One soldier was seriously injured. Three Zeppelins which hovered over Amsterdam were fired gS on by the Dutch sentries. Holland is perturbed at the violation of her neutrality. f By way of reprisals for the dropping of bombs on Nancy, French airmen visited various military points, including Metz : ° > station, and Ostend. The recent raid on Saarbrucken, a coal* mining town in the extreme south of the Rhine province, ■was very successful, a military railway being blown up. A German attempt to break the French front in the Western .•»; Argonne failed, despite the use of asphyxiating shells by the K* enemy. Athens reports speak of further progress near Suvla Bay. hy- The army and navy co-operated in heavy fighting at Gallipoli. K- The Italians have assumed the offensive in the Cadoria region of the Tyrol, and won several entrenched positions. Dynamite cartridges from Prussia have been discovered in a German business house in Bucharest. It is said they were intended for a series of attempts on the lives of Roumanian statesmen favourable to the allies, and for the destruction of military works in the event of a Roumanian mobilisation.