RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6379, 26 July 1916, Page 4

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

I CAPTURE OF GERMAN TRENCHES. I PRISONERS AND GUNS TAKEN. London, July 22. A German communique admits tliar I lie Russians have crossed the 1)\ ina. Tliis is nut mentioned in the .Russian but it lias mm leaked out I hat i lie Russians began extensive operations mi the Riga i'luut. The lirst intimation of this uas a telegram in tin l Novoe Yreinya announcing the i-si|i-tlire nf thiff lines (if German trenches. Many prisoners ami guns are mm at liijta. The correspondent of the Bourse Ga/.iite describes the j>n|>ultHion as listening to a tremendous boinbardiiienl. which commenced on the Kith inst. PEACE WORTH HAVING. THROUGH WEST FRONT VICTORY. I'aris, July 22. I.e Matin publishes an interview with : Douglas llaig. in the course i' which the British t'oiniiiander-in-Chicl' says :—'' Til i supreme ilecision of the war is to lie gained on the west We must ir.ip • there'a peace north having, because we shall have paid for it.' BOMB OUTRAGES IN SAN FRANCISCO. WARNINGS DISREGARDED. SIX PERSONS KILLED. San Francisco, July 2:!. six persons were killed and 2!> injured by a bomb explosion. Spectators were in a stale of preparedness for a parade, when a concealed suit-case, which had been placed in front of a house, exploded. The house was demolished. Several persons luid reveived post-card warnings, which were disregarded. The Longueval Surprise GERMANY S SOMME SACRIFICES AUSTRALIANS IN TRENCH RAID. SOUTH OF ARMENTIERES. London, July 20. Sir Douglas llaig reports : We have regained a little ground at Delville Wood and Longueval, where the struggle continue* We also pushed forward our line north of Longueval and Ba/.entin and east of the ■eipsie redoubt. Our bombarding parties made a substantial advance last night east of the Leipsic redoubt. lOlscwhere the main battle is chiefly artillery lire, with no alteration of positions. The diary of a German commanding ollicer shows that up to July 1 the Sixth Bavarian Ucgiment, lighting at Montauban, lost liliotl men out of .'itillO; a battalion of the l!Hlth Regiment lost n.yi men out of 12D0 : two other battalions of the .180 th Hegiment lost over half their effective strength. ! We carried out yesterday evening, south of Anuentieres, some important raids along a front of twu miles, in which the Australians took pari. German Dejection NATION'S MENTALITY AFFECTED. MURDER AND SUICIDE EPIDEMIC. .New York, July 20. The I'nited I'ress Hague correspondent slates that a ghastly crime and suicide wave is sweeping over Germany. It due to mental depression, caused by lack of proper food and their losses in the war. A sensational suicide or mr - del has occurred in Berlin every other day for the past two weeks. Two girls killed another girl in a manjeure parlour. They beheaded her with a razor, and packed the body in a trunk and sent it to another city. Many similar gruesome crimes have been committed, put practically nothing is published in Germnny about the suicides, so as to avoid a depressing psychological effect.