RUSSIA'S BLOWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA'S BLOWS

ENEMY OFFENSIVE REPULSED

CARPATHIAN HEIGHTS CAPTURED

Australian and X Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 23. A Russian communique states : We io plied to a gas attack fouthwaid of Krcvo, inflicting heavy losses. The enemy southuaid of TSrodv (northeast Galicia) lesumed the offensive, but wo lepellod them everywhere. We captured two Carpathian heights near tho source of tho l'riitli, cn tho Ilunganaii fiontier.

FUTURE OF POLAND

AUSTRIA RENOUNCES HER CLAIMS.®

P.ERNE, August 23. Tho Journal, of Geneva, affirms that, owing to her disastious defeats, Austria lias renounced all protentu ns to Russian Poland, which falls to Germany. Tho latter annexes tho province of RuwaJki, and the remainder will be incorporated in a new Polish kingdom, of which probably King Leopold of Bavaria will be king. Tiie Military Convention gives Germany absolute power over the Government of Poland, while a commercial treaty subordinates Polish interests to those of Germany.

NEW GERMAN BOMBS.

A LATERAL EXPLOSION.

, BERNE, August 23. The newest enemy device is bombs which explode laterally, causing mutilation or death within an area of 30 yards. A flotilla of German aeroplanes has been dropping tlieso bombs on tho Russians in the Pinsk marshes, where dugouts are impossible.

ATTACK ON BRITAIN

A POLITICIAN'S LAPSE.

lIIS PROSECUTION URGED

Router's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, August 23. The Russian government, is being urged to prosecute the Extreme Right leader, M. Bulatzel, who, regarding Mr Asquith's declaration as to tfu punishment of those iesponsiblc for international crimes as being directed against the Kaiser, wrote an article consisting of a scurrilous diatribe against Britain, -\>ho, he said, "is planning a tribunal such as passed the death sentence on Mary Queen of Scots and Joan of Arc. " The British Army." the article continued, " has advanced a few hundred yards in two years, and the task of taking the Kaiser prisoner is presumably imposed on Russia. The war will not end when Russia is able- to conclude an honourable peace, but when Russia has laid low the Hohenzollern dynasty." Bulatzel practically advocated a separate Russo-German peace.

POSITION STILL UNCHANGED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PETROGRAD, August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 7.10 p.m.) A communique states that the position is still unchanged.