RUSSIA'S TASK.
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. RELIGIOUS BARRIERS BREAK DOWN. A PATHETIC STORY. Berne, Nov. 17. A Galician correspondent of a Geneva journal says that religious barriers grow less in the horrors of the battlefield. Catholic priests are succouring Jews, while Mussulmans expire in the arms of Protestant pastors. A Catholic priest narrates: "A soldier, mortally wounded, crawled to me and I knelt beside him. He was a Jew. He was frightfully mutilated, but held himself close against me with wild energy, (begging me to pray for him. I gave him from the bottom of my heart the last consolations. He handed me his papers, money and watch • to send ,to his wife, and 1 mad? his will. After half an hour's agony he died, uncomplainingly, in my arms, murmuring his mother's name. \l closed his eyes and turned to where other voices were call-
IN THE STYR VALLEY. THE ENEMY'S STRENGTH. Petrograd. Nov. 1/. Tii<! strength ■>! the enemy forces which made the thrust in the middle of the Styr valley was one and a half army corps. The front runs astride the Kovel-Sarny railway, along which the enemy's' guns have been brought, as ,snmo of the local roads are impassable for artillery.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1915, Page 5
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