FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 3

FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED OX ENEMY AND RUSSIAN ARMIES' POSITION MADB SAFER. HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE ARGONNES. BLAZING LIQUIDS AND ASPHYXIATING SHELLS. ALLIES MENACE TURKISH LINES AT BULAIR. AMERICA DEMANDS AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR'S RECALL. RETURNING ZEPPELIN COMES TO GRIEF. -Pr»m asso.— By Telegraph— Copyrlgbt.)

LONDON, Sept. 10.

The War Office has accepted m principle the offer of the Volunteer Training Corps to raise battalions for special service m France. The 'terms and the I work to be undertaken have not yet I been settled. A thousand corps are j available, representing about aSO.OOO i mon. ■■

Unwin has beeii promoted to a captaincy: [At Gaba lepe Edward Unwin, comamnder of the River Clyde, under a murderous fire, endeavored to get the landing lighters m position, till Ihe cold immersion obliged him to re- : turn to the ship. Wrapped m blankets he somewhat recovered, and against the doctor's orders returned to complete the work later. Though he received three abrasions for bullets he continu6d to rescue the wounded lying m shallow water, till physical exhaustion foroed ■ him to stop.]