6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 14

In the Russian theatre of war the news is distinctly

good A Petrograd communigith published on Thursday states that in the region of Dvinsk the Russians carried two heights which had been strongly organized by the Germans, made numerous prisoners, and took some machine guns. Further Petrograd reports in Thursday evening's papers record a con- siderable success in Galicia. In an action on the Strypa, which began on November 1st but is still raging, the Russians captured some five thousand officers and men, partly German and partly Austrian. So much for the news from Russia. A German "wireless" published on Thursday contains the curious admission that Marshal von Hindenburg had to withdraw a, part of his line near the 'leen Lakes, about twelve miles south- west of Dvinsk.