THE EASTERN FRONT.

West Coast Times, 24 November 1915, Page 3

THE EASTERN FRONT.

THE LULL ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT BKTOKKNS IMPORTANT PREPARATIONS. SrPKRIOIRTY OK HESSIAN ARTILLERY. THE. KAISER ABOLISHES THE RES SIAN WINTER. Pre Press Association. —Copy me by. PETROGRAD, Xnv. 22. TW lull on the Russian front Wtokens important preparations on the part of the Russian General Staff. The Russian artillery is now proving its stipt'riority on the nholo front.

The Germans are adopting extraordinary methods to eountertaet the terrible mid. Justifying the Kaiser s r’r>-nt js -1 in an Army Order that he had abolish.*! the Hns-ian winter. It includes light metal Inilldlnjprovided with -team In-aters. and the chdivery of enomions quantities n! spirit wherewith the soldiers are ruh-U-.1 all over daily. General von Hindenhnrg. ; n mi Army Order states that the eommau hj r who loses 3 single man from frost d. serves to lu* shot. The Germans are collect ing va.t quantities of calico, linen and ivb le materials to cover their unif e i is, trenches and supply carts in l< e hope that they will lie invishil- in silnn. They are also using tripod s.viiigc loents. eovereil with white, 1111 ler which limy bivouac unseen hy ai ro planes. The Germans have organised sr.-v;.;i lioring detachments who creep lorwanl at night, and makes borings in the frozen ground which are afterwards exploded enabling the yu!.:,eds to form trenches. General Ivsnnff performed brilliant n.anocnvres at Chartorsk. The Russians, in a hollow, sere ex posed to a deadly tire from AnstroGermaii howitzers on a hill. Genertil Ivanoff abandoned the ii.'.a 1.1 capturing the hill, owing to the terrible cost, retreating across lii-> river and allowing the enemy to ccc-npy the low-lying ground. Russian batteries on either side of a loop in the river were masked- until the Austro-Gennans reaeheu the hollow when ihi- Russians tired with deadly effect. The enemy fled and the Russians re crossed and captured the hill. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. AMSTERDAM. Nov. 22. A German communique says we repnl sed -a weak Russian attack on the cemetery at Illukst.