THE EASTERN STRUGGLE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 558, 23 November 1915, Page 7

THE EASTERN STRUGGLE.

BRILLIANT RUSSIAN MANOEUVRE.

GENERAL IVANOFF'S STRATEGY.

AMSTERDAM, November 21

A German official communique says: "The situation on the Eastern front is unchanged." PETROGRAD, November 22. General Ivanoff carried out a brilliant manoeuvre at Czartorisk. The Russians were in a hollow and exposed to the deadly fire of the Austro-Germah howitzers on a hill. General Ivanoff abandoned the idea of capturing the hill owing to the terrible cost involved. He retreated across the river, allowing the enemy to occupy, the low-lying ground. The Russian batteries on either side of the loop in the river were masked until the Austro-Germans reached the hollow, when the Russians opened fire with deadly effect. The enemy fled, and the Russians recrossed the river and captured the hill. SUPERIOR RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. GERMANY'S WINTER PREPARATIONS. ; PETROGRAD, November 22. The lull on the Russian front betokens important preparations on the part of the Russian General Staff. The Russian artillery is now proving its superiority along the whole front. x The Germans are adopting extraordinary methods to counteract the terrible cold, justifying the Kaiser's recent jest in an Army Order that he had "abolished the Russian win-

ter." These include light metal buildings provided with steam heaters, and the delivery of enormous quantities of spirit with which the soldiers are rubbed all over daily. Marshal von Hindenburg, in an Army Order, says that the commander who loses a single man from frost deserves to be shot. The Germans arc collecting vast quantities of calico, linen, and other white materials to cover their uniforms, trenches, and supply carts in the hope that they will be invisible against the snow. They are also using a tripod arrangement covered with white material under which a bivouac cannot be seen from aeroplanes. The Germans have organised special boring detachments to creep forward at night and make borings in the frozen ground, wliich are afterwards exploded, enabling the soldiers to form trenches.