THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1915, Page 5

THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN.

A LULL IN OPERATIONS. GERMANS IN AN UNENVIABLE PLIGHT. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'eloc PETROGILVD. Nov. 2nd. There is an ominous bill "on the 'Russian fronx. Tho desorcite .battles on the Dvinn wer*, succeeded by artillery duels only on the .Sltyr, north and south of tilhs Kovelsa.rh.y railway. " Tho Gulf of ißiiga i* entirely cbsed to to.n« ships. Riii'a noy represent a rest, house for tii ( , win bar, and tho schemes of conquest have been reduced to jopes'of roof covw for tho exhausted troops during the winter. ■Most- of tho (Germans are in summer clothing. Many are engaged iin pillaging and marauding. The officers arc obliged to wink at the»3 ott'enoes, . to oovur npjolto sowing deficiencies m the Gorman supplies. The men are terror-? trickon, believing that tho early appearand of snow indicates a frost : .u which the birds drop deal like stones upon tho frozen earth. 1 ... Tho Germans ar 0 short of men and munitions. • TVjvrain allso favours a Russian gueriJlia war. Ai'ter tho disastrous fighting at Uaranowiehs, Aro whole companies ,o ; f /Germans surrendered, Prince Leapold doraftfiided jiemfloroements. saying /that a sixth of his men wvro «ick and a 'good third engaged m defending bridsres and stores. , .„ , Peti r correspondents add that the ißussian .gueniiUa forces are acting pibkod captains, stiffened by (trained soldiers.

cefkaks suffer a severe reverse

(Received This Morning, 12.25 o'clock.) PETIIOGRAD, November 2. Later reports show that the Germans suffered a severe reverse at Misso, near Riga. The Russian poured a deadly llro into their entrenchments. and the enemy was unable to effectively reply.

, A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

({Received Last Night, 8.5 o'clock.) , AMSTERDAM, November 2. A German communique saya: Several air encounters in the Belfoci l ' egl Geneml d the railway from Tukum to lS Stroiig Itesfaif 1 attacks were repulsed west and south-west of Dtuuburg.

GERMAN CAPTURES FOR OCTOBER

/Received Lust Night, 8.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November 2. A Berlin official message states that the German captures for the month of October were as follows :-Genera Hmdenburg s armies, 14,580 men and 40 machine guns; Prince Leopold,, 4166 men and two machine guns; General Linsingen, 8027 men and 21 machine guns; General Bothniers, 1525 men and one machine gtm; General Mackensen. 11,<>92 men and 23 machine guns.

THE ATTEMPTED LANDING NEAR RIGA

STREAM CLOGGED WITH GERMAN BODIES. "Times & Sydney Sun Services." Received November -»< l, S a.ni.) LONtDON. November Ist. '•Jiye-WilHC*.*. ' describing the fighting at Balen/■ Island, near Riga (when "the C-ea-nuois vsmWowed to; kind troops from tho sea), says the ftussijms lured {die enemy fco the island, and met them with fire from two sidis. J Thcjro itcrrible lasses. Thu .puttie assembled on, tho bridge at Riga mid .watched thousands of .<j}wniiati float down the sfetvaro" which was with dead badie,>.