RUSSIANS DRIVE THE GERMANS BACK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 5

RUSSIANS DRIVE THE GERMANS BACK

TWO DIVISIONS ANNIHILATED .. t ' . f FLEEING AUSTRIANS IN PERIL IN THE SOUTH (Rec. October 2, 0.10 a.m.) Petrograd, October 1. Two German divisions at the Battle of Druskemki were annihilated. The fighting on the frontier extended over a hundred-miles front. All the German attempts to force the passage of the' Niemen were repulsed. The Forest' of Augustovo, through which the Germans are now-retreating, is twenty-four miles from north to south and thirty-five miles from east to we6t. , It is'intercepted by a canal connecting the Niemen and the Vistula, and is shredded with lakes. Tho heavy rain latterly has reduced some parts of the district to a quagmire. The Russians axe operating in the forest, attacking the German flank, with a view to cutting the enemy's communications. German barbarities in Russian Poland have provoked reprisals, and three German officers and nineteen soldiers were hanged to trees in ono place to expiate 'the hanging of six .Russian peasants. . . KAISER IN COMMAND IN PRUSSIA. '' ' Petrograd, September 80. The Kaiser is in command of twelve army corps in Eastern Prussia. A fierce battle between General ltennenkampf's and General Hindenberg's forces has been raging since Sunday morning on a front extending from Grodno (at the south-east corner of the province of Suwalki) to Druskeniki (twentyeight miles north of Grodno). Four army coij|>s (120,000 men) are engaged on both sides. The Russians are being constantly reinforced from Vilna (the capital of the Vilna province, east of Suwalki). They have already repulsed the Germans at several points. _ ; _ . . The German object is to cut the railway from Warsaw to Vitaa^ ' RAPID RUSSIAN ADVANCE GA'LIOI Rome, September 30. - A telegram from Vienna says the Russians left Przemysl completely surrounded, and that two columns are advancing rapily along the railways in Galicia? The northern column assaulted Tarnow, and the southern occupied a section of the Austrians, which the Russians' northern army is driving southwards. There is every indication that the Aussians do not intend to capture Gracovir, but to invest it in a similar manner to Przemysl, and then advance on Breslau (the capital of Silesia), and junction with the Russian centre for the invasion of Germany. ( \ ' ' GERMANS JUNCTION WITH AUSTRIANS. Petrograd, September 80. New German army corps have juhctioned_ with the remnant of the Austrians in Galicia, and the combined is in contact with the Russians on the Carpathian-Tarnow-Cracow front. FLEEING AUSTRIANS SURROUNDED. (Rec. October 2, 0.20 a.m.) , Rome, September 30. The Russian Ambassador hero states that the fleeing Austrian army -was surrounded near the Dukla Pass, in the Carpathian's, South of Tarnow. The Russians captured five hundred automobiles, much ammunition, and food. The Russians defeated the Germans in the Suwalki district, in Northern Poland, and have occupied Augustow. ~ ' .