TURKISH RETREAT FROM EGYPT

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11174, 13 February 1915, Page 5

TURKISH RETREAT FROM EGYPT

Can any one, who reads this, picture upon the little tablet of his pagination a field of 45,000 dead ? If he can he possesses a wonderlily spacious background to his brain. It can only be thought of as a L a nd this vast number of Germans are said to have littered the Lund in front of the Russian trenches after ten attacks. There is Hdently another tremendous conflict imminent in East Prussia, where L Germans are said to he concentrating a vast force to drive back the Lders. That this is to be no child’s play is evidenced by the fact that L Russians are falling back upon the Masurian Lakes, with a view to feing up a strong position. There is nothing further about the reported beat of the Russians in Bukovina, where they were said to be bard Lsed by the Austrians, and the probabilities are that there is no truth fthe report- The Archbishop of Cologne is persuaded that the Germans I j- 00 sweetly and joyously religious to be beaten by Free Mason France Id violently orthodox Russia. God will not allow it. We shall see. A |rt time ago people were’being shot in Germany for talking peace. L. it is extremely significant that not only are the newspapers allowed ■discuss the question, but Baron Hirsch has been suffered to hope for In that Hell-centre, the Prussian Diet. The Germans appear to be leady dropping their hot talk ‘'about sinking . neutral ships and now Imise not to touch them. The American Note has, no doubt, shown |m the error of their ways. The Times reminds us ’ that both in the L and in the West the Germrn offensive has broken down,. but that i must beware of spring operations on their part. A late Russian icial despatch would seem to intimate that the whole Russian force in fet Prussia is retreating to the shelter of their own fortresses before Itly superior forces and that they are on the eve of'a; great, long and iisive battle. The Turks are,'it seems, actually on the retreat from BP*-