RUSSIANS DEVASTATE COUNTRY BEHIND THEM.
POPULATION FLEES EAST IN WHOLE PARISHES.
GERMANS FIND NO FOOD IN POLAND
London. September 12. The correspondent of the Observer at Petrograd says that the Germans are advancing over country burnt and devastated by the retreating Russian army, and divested of its population. The refugees move eastward in whole parishes, headed by the priests. Sometimes enemy patrols overtake the refugees, capture the priests, beat the men, and carry off the young women. The Germans, instead of finding food in the conquered territory are obliged to draw nearly the whole of their supplies from Germany, and the only aid rendered by the Russians is to steadily reduce the number of Germans, who must be fed, clothed and transported. The principal result of the invasion has been to stimulate Russian organisation of her power to an unprecedented degree. The organisation is no longer left to the Government; every man and woman is thinking about organisation, especially of munitions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16022, 14 September 1915, Page 7
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