RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIV, Issue 15904, 7 March 1916, Page 8

RUSSIA.

CLASH EXPECTED OX THE DWIXA. G ERMAXS' rXKXYIA BLE POSITION'. LONDON. Alai'ch 5. I ho "Observer's"' Petrograd eorres-' pondent states that a. etirioiis tremor is noticeable on the north .Russian front-, as )b the forces are anticipating u cominu struggle. German aircraft aro : incessantly reconnoitring and there j p.re movements of troops behind the enemy s lines. There are bifi hospital ' and ambulance pi >-pti vat ions. Out-I'-.irsls in artillery lire are constant, a'oiifj; 'he Dnina and show Ihe general wa u-h i'i:!ne.w. J 1-e s:t nation ui' ihe Germans on the Du'iim is unenviable. An early thmv

submerged whole companies and engineers were brought from (ii rmany to drain the swamps and rescue- isolated units. Flotillas of boats were utilised to stive the artillery. victory at biti.is. SUBSTANTIAL BOOTY. ]'ET.K()(iI!AI), March r,. Official. —Details of the. rapture of .Bitlis show that our troops attacked the enemy entrenchments in snowstorm. The final charge was made at 3 o'clock in the morning, the Turks being driven out with tho bayonet after a desperate resist tnnrc. Our troops did not lire a shot. They next attacked the artillery and raptured the position after stubborn hand to hand fighting, All tho tipfenders wore killed. Pursuit of tho enemy followed immediately. \Ye have now taken twenty lvrupp guns of the latest type and captured a large .munitions depot at Bitlis.