RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15502, 12 November 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA.

GERMAN DIFFICULTIES. IN EAST PRUSSIA. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servtoas. PreM Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 10. A German non-commissioned officer, captured in East Prussia, relates that he lay in tho trenches for six days, living solely oh coffee, because tho camp kitchens had been destroyed, and transport? was .wholly impossible owing to Russian heavy artillery incessantly shelling tho roads. They were unable even to transport ammunition. An order from the Kaiser enjoined them to attack as often as possible, and not permit the Russians to advance. ACTIVITY IN ARMENIA. The Press, reviewing tho .anti-Turk-ish operations, dwells on a wonderful forced march, averaging sixty-four versts (about 42} miles) daily, over enow-covered roads. Tho town of Van is besieged by an Armenian band. Another has penetrated to tho rear of the Turkish army. WE SHOULD HAVE HEARD DIRECT. Constantinople assorts that tho Turk 3 crossed the Egyptian frontier on Sunday. AN ENTHUSIASTIC BOTANIST. Among the prisoners at Warsaw '"s an elderly Prussian. Blinking under a huge Cossack busby, he explained that he was a Professor of Botany in Berlin. While marching ho saw a rare plant in the marshes, and felt that he must have a specimen. He left the ranks and secured tho plant, and while struggling in the marsh lost his eyeglasses and stumbled along into the Cossacks' arms. RUSSIAN TROOPS' ENTHUSIASM. Russian troops are filled with delirious enthusiasm and attribute to superhuman powers their advance into Germany, and believe that they are irresistible.