AT THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11455, 21 December 1915, Page 5

AT THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

AN ARTILLERY DISPERSAL. GERMAN COLUMN DECIMATED. Petrograd, Dec. 20. A communique says:—Our artillery dispersed an enemy column with great loss north of Lake Miadzial. THE BREMEN’S EXPERIENCE. RETURNING PROM INSPECTION.

MEETS BRITISH SUBMARINES. Copenhagen, Dec. 20. Two British submarines torpedoed the German cruiser Bremen, which was returning from an inspection of the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. AN AUSTRO-GERMAN ALARM. POSSIBLE BEER FAMINE. SYNTHETIC FOODS UNIVERSAL Berne, Dec. 19. The Austro-Germans ace alarmed by a possible beer 'famine. Prices are rising. Experiments are being made in the production of beer from maize. German markets are flooded with synthetic foods, honey powders, tea and cocoa tabelts, and grog tabloids. The substitutes are mostly worthless. Professor Kruse advises a diet of bread, potatoes an syrup.

AFtER THE WAR. A LABOURITE’S FEARS. OLD STRUGGLES TO BE RENEWED. London, Dec. 30. Mr Henderson, M.P., has contributed in the ‘‘Labour Year Book” a forecast of what Labour will be* confronted with after the war. He says the first year’s peace will be a time of grave depression affecting no single trade but the whole of the industrial system. The utmost enconomy during the war may alleviate but cannot wholly avert the distress that is bound to follow the return of peace. It will mean the renewal of many of the old struggles.

SITUATION IN PERSIA

GERMANS TRIUMPHANT. \

BRITISH AND RUSSIANS

REFUGING

Germans and their Persian followers at Kum are flooding the capital with messages threatening the capital with invasion if the Shah refused to side with the TurcoGermans. They intercepted all communications to the south of Persia. The Russian and British Consuls have left Kurman for Bandar Abbas. The British colony at Shiraz is still in captivity in the mountains. There is no news of the British colony at Yegd. After long, captivity the British colony at Sultanabad has just arrived, its deliverance confusing the enemy in the districts bordering those where the Russians are operating. The enemy took possesson of the cash and securities in the English banks at Ispahan, Shiraz and Yezd.