BATTLES IN NORTHERN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 5

BATTLES IN NORTHERN POLAND

RUSSIANS'ROOT GERMANS

ENEMY CLAIM A VICTORY AT SDWALKI

(Reo. October 5, 10 p.m!) Petrograd, October 4. Details of the'fighting at Ossowiets, in the north of Poland,;show <hat the Germans were unable to use their heavy .guns in the marshy ground. The infantry, with machiue-guhs, advanced within four miles of the fortress. The Russians sortied at night and enveloped both wings. ' The. fortress guns mowed down the Germans in masses in the. centre. Simultaneously the Russian infantry attacked the wings. l , 'After 36 hours' fighting the Germ ans were routed, and all their heavy, guns were captured. (Rec. October 6, 0.50 a.m. : * Petrograd, October 5. 'After their defeat at Ossowiets the Germans were hurled back on Gralwo, near the frontier, the road to which was .strewn with corpses. Ossowiets is on the railway running from Bialystok, in Poland, to Lyck, in Prussia. This line is about 40 miles to the west of, and parallel with, thai from Grodno through Suwalki to the Goiman frontier. Ossowiets lies sixteen miles distant from the German frontier.

GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY AT SUWALKI.

(Rec. October 5, 9.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, October 5. ■' A German official statement claims the complete defeat of the Russians at the Battle,of Suwalki, and that three thousand prisoners, eighteen guns, many machine-guns, and much transport material were captured.

ATTEMPTS TO CROSS NIEMEN FAILS.

■' ~ , (Reo. October 5, 8.20 p.m.) Petrograd, October I Details of the Germans' repeated attempts to cross the River Niemen, northwards of Grodno, show that the Russian rearguard were transferred on September-23 to the right bank , of the river. The Germans, not noticing signs of opposition, constructed pontoons and poured troops across. Tie cleverly-screened Russian guns opened' a concentrated fire, sweeping the Germans by hundreds into the river. A prolonged artillery duel followed, and the Germane again attempted to cross, but none reached the opposite bank.

(Rec. October 5, 11.50 p.m.)

, ■' - Petrograd, October 5. After their second attempt to cross the Niemen,. the Germans made a last desperate effort hi the evening. Columns in close formation proceeded to the crossing, and again every man was mowed down-by machine-guns, and finally the German'batteries were ' silenced. ■■ Tho enemy retreated eight miles, and the Cossacks, crossing by the enemy's pontoons, pursued and harassed them. ' ■ " • -. •.'.',.

One account says that 20,000 German corpsos floated down tho Nienlen,

; .-. EIGHT MILLION RUSSIANS MOBILISED. (Rea October 5, 11.50 p.m.) '' ■ Potrograd, October 5. Before he departed for the front, the Tsar called out the reserves, and over eight million Russians nave now been mobilised. ' ■

CHOLERA IN EAST PRUSSIA. (Itec. October 6, 8.30 p.m.) .. ' ' , Berlin, October 4. Cholera has appeared in Eastern Prussia.