THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12069, 26 July 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

ROUT OF THE ELEVENTH ARMY. PETROGRAD FURIOUS AT THE NEWS. | i STRONGEST MEASURES DEMANDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 26, noon.) LONDON, July 25. The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday as follows: The details of the disgraceful "*Mit of the Eleventh Army hns impressed Petrograd with unspeakable* humiliation and fury. The public only learned of the catastrophe in the afternoon papers, and the shock was terrible. r l he strongest means are demanded to remove the causes of the disaster. Ministers are now described as the Government for saving the revolution. They have unlimited powers, though the Socialist Ministers are bound to report to tho Executive of the Council at least twice weekly. The vacant seats on the Ministry have been filled by nonSocialists. The Government is now composed of live Socialists and five nonSocialists, including Messrs Nekrasoff, Tereschenko, Vladiniiroloff and Godnaff. The death penalty lias been re-estab-lished in the army. M. Kerensky is returning from the front. AN INQUIRY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 26, 1 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 25. The Government has appointed a representative commission to inquire into the recent disorders. TREATMENT OF TRAITORS. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT DEMANDED. AN APPEAL FROM THE TRENCHES. Australian and Cable Association an.l Reuter (Received July 26, 2 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 25'. A wireless message says that the commissaries attached to the Russian armies on the son'th-western front, sent a meSSage to the Prime Minister and the Minister of War pointing out that capital punishment of traitors and deserters ia necessary in order (to restore discipline in the armies. The Seventh Army initiated the example of flight, and the Eighth Army, which itook Halicz and Kalusz, was forced to retreat right on the flank and exposed beoa-nsa Ithe cowards and the faint-hearted had fled. MORE FAVOURABLE NEWS. . KORNILOFF WILL PUNISH TRAITORS. A.u*trali*n and N.Z. Cab la Association. (Received July 26, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. The "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent states that directly General Korniloff assumed the command on the south-western front he saw the condition of the Eleventh Army and urgently applied to the Provisional Government to sanction the punishment of soldiers for misconduct. General Korniloff .is now in a. position to turn machine-guns upon traitors. The drastic use of steel will cut out the cancer on the fighting front. The breach in the front is nothing like so formidable as the earlier German successes. Moreover, the southwestern front ia exceptionally well provided frith indispensable adjuncts to warfare and does not depend on Petrctgrad for material- j

THE GERMAN ATTACK. KAISER WATCHES BATTLE. CAPTURE OF STANISLAU. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Router. (Received July 26, 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. A wireless German official message Bays:— The Russia.ns have refrained from again nit-acting and our advance is not interrupted. The Kaiser watched the troops repulse a strong Russian attack between Tarnopol and Trembowba. We assaulted and captured heights on the east, bank and captured Tarnopol. We are nearing Buczaoz. We have also captured Stanislau and Nadworna. The Russians penetrated our line's in the Srusita Valley., but were immediately brought a standstill.