Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 274, 17 November 1914, Page 5

Russia

FAVORABLE RUSSIAN REPORT.

United Press Association. Petrograd, November 16. ; \ Official: Along the Alloud-Stallu-pouen-Angerherg front, also at Johanisburg, the Russians' are successfully fighting the German advance. The Russians are advancing in the SoldauMeidenhurg district;, -notwithstanding the stubborn resistance. Fighting is developing p,luck on the War La. front. The enemy is retreating in the Kalisz-Wielun district, i They were unsuccessful in attempting the offensive southward of Czestochawa. The Russian advance to Cracow continues. Lp 11 f ■ ■- > A report from, Finland states that the Russians have withdrawn all thentroops from east and west Finland to join the main army. This is accepted as an indication that all fear of a possible Swedish invasion lias vanished, and has created a great impression. A Swedish officer, who has returned, from East Prussia states that the Germans arc sending whole companies of infantry, composed exclusively of youths, pone of whom are more than fifteen or sixteen, into the.first battle line. It is sad to see them move forward shoulder to shoulder like automatons, only to he cut down like grain by the Russian machine guns. GERMAN OUTRAGES IN POLAND. Petrograd, November 16. It is stated that the Germans retreating in Poland propped the bodies of prominent citizens at”the corners of the streets as a warning to those remaining against betrayal. They also cut the pictures of the Virgin from the 'lkon frames, substituting photographs of the Kaiser.

' GERMAN PROCLAMATION URGES GUERILLA WARFARE. (Received 8.15 a.m.V Amsterdam, November 16. A proclamation issued in East Prussia urges the whole population to y take up arms and maintain guerilla warfare against the Russians. NO PEACE PROPOSALS. PRUSSIAN MILITARISM MUST FIRST BE CRUSHED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.rn.) London, November 16. Count de Witte denies the Petrograd rumors that he is endeavoring to promote mediation. The Petrograd correspondent says that Russian public opinion in regard to any peace proposals is that they show sacrilegious disrespect to the men who had died for their country. The Prussian militarist must first be crushed. Count Sergius de Witte, who was born in 1849, began life in a humble position in the Russian railway service, but showed such striking capacity for organisation that he rose high and was made Finance Minister of the Empire in 1892. Under his direction the Siberian failway was constructed. He is a man of liberal tendencies and is claimed to he the maker of industrial Russia. Ho is descended from a family of Hutch emigrants to Russia. He negotiated the nonce with Janan after the failure of the o,ar’s operations in Manchuria, and was created a Count and called to the Premiership, hut resigned in ICOG.

RESIDENTS IN FULL FLIGHT IN EAST PRUSSIA. United Press Association. (Received 8.15 a.m.) Copenhagen, November 16. Berlin reports state that the flight from Cracow is becoming general, and that the German colony has fled to Berlin. In Breslau it is rumoured that the, Austrians will not defend' the city desiring that it should not be bombarded. * . “ TAKE UP ARMS!” ALL METHODS OF DEFENCE PERMISSIBLE. in-’ii •«! ‘(Received 8.45 a.m.) Loudon, November 16. Despite the severity of German punishment on armed civilians in Belgium, a German proclamation to the inhabitants of East Prussia declares that all ipethods of defence are permissible when the enemy crosses the frontier, and summons all to take up arms, preferably wearing civilian dress, in order to surprise the enemy better. * i,