Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 65, 12 November 1914, Page 5

Russia

, - •* ■ RUSSIAN ENTHUSIASM.

Times and Sydney Sun Service*. Lohdon, November 10.

The Russian troops are filled with ■delirious enthusiasm. They attribute to superhuman powers their advance into Germany, and consider themselves irresistible.

LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.

Time* and Sydney Sun Service*. London,’ November 10.

A German non-com. captured in East Prussia relates: “We lay in the trendies for six days; living solely on coffee;* because the camp kitchens had been destroyed, and transport was wholly impossible owing to the Russian heavy artillery incessantly shelling the roads. We were unable even to transport ammunition. We had an order from the Kaiser who enjoined us to attack as aften a's possible, and not to permit the Russians to advance.”

A GERMAN OFFER OF PEACE REJECTED.

United Press 'Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, November 11. The Morning Post’s Rome correspon. dent states that Germany is alarmed at the Russian successes, and has made preliminary offers of peace to the Russian Government, which, however, wore rejected. IMMENSE RUSSIAN CAPTURES IN EAST PRUSSIA. (Received 11.50 a .m.) Petrograd, November 11. The Germans in the recent fighting in East Prussia lost seventy per cent, of their officers. The Russians captured four howitzers, (sixty-two guns, sixty machine guns, and immense quantities of ammunition as well as 323 officers.

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