RUSSIA

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144778, 7 September 1915, Page 3

RUSSIA

GERMAN STRATEGY. NOT LIKELY TO SUCCEED. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN BEEVICES. I (Received Sept. 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. The Russian War Office is confident that tho wedges the Germans are trying to drive into their front will not succeed in separating the Russian armies; also that tho attempt to envelop a large oody of troops by a manoeuvre which has created a dangerous salient at Grodno will fail. A GERMAN SUCCESS. RUSSIANS EBCROSS THE DWINA. PETROGRAD, Sept. 6. A communique says: Tho enemy hydroplanes bombed our torpedoers at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. The enemy was reinforced at Friedrichstadt and his superiority forced our trpops who had crossed the river to Linden to rocross to the right bank. Our withdrawal near Friedrichstadt was due to the enemy’s artillery setting fire to the Dwina bridges. General Alexisevert now commands tho western front, and General Ivanoff commands in the south. A GERMAN REPORT. BERLIN, Sept. 5. A communique states that the Russians at Grodno retreated behind' the Kotra sector, south of Jeziory. Prisoners at Grodno have increased to 3600. Prince Leopold, of Bavaria, has forced an outlet from the swamps, and General von Maokensen forced the Russians to evacuate a bridgehead at Berezakartuaka. The enemy showed fresh resistance in the Drohiczyn district, and our attack is proceeding. General Botjhmerx stormed tho enemy’s advanced positions on the west hank of the Sereth. AN APPEAL FROM ITALY. ROME, Sept. 6. The Giornal d’ltalia publishes a Petrograd dispatch urging that early efforts by the Allies in Belgium and the Dardanelles are necessary. If final victory is to be expected it will bo necessary for the Allies to draw twenty divisions*of Austro-G ormans from tho east front. It adds that notwithstanding the winter the Germans will bo able to pursue the Russians, and this renders the situation more critical than ever. The fact that the dispatch passed the Russian censor is considered significant.