GERMAN RETREAT FROM WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7

GERMAN RETREAT FROM WARSAW

STEADILY DRIVEN BACK RUSSIAN CAVALRY OCCUPY RADOM i i (Reo. October 81, 0.50 a.m.) Petrograd, October SO. _ Official.—We have broken the resistance of the last units of the enemy which were attempting to maintain themselves north of the River Pilica. All the Austro-German corps beyond the Vistula are in fall retreat, and there are indications that the German force has been cut in two. 1 Russian/cavalry have entered Radom. Several thousand Germans have : been made prisoners', and a number of guns and ten machine-guns captured. i The Germans for four days made fruitless attacks in East Prussia, near ; Bakalarjevo, losing heavily. ' Bakalarjevo is on the Russian side of the frontier, about 10 miles west of Suwalki. Radom is 60 miles south of Warsaw, and about 85' miles west of Ivangorod and the Vistula, < ! London, Ootobor 29. _ Berlin reports that a new Russian army has crossed the Vistula, nortK of Ivangorod. A correspondent writes that during the fighting opposite Koszienioa, about 15 miles west of Ivangorod, the Germans filled the thick woods with troops, including heavy artillery. Several small bodies of Russians stalked tie German lines and set fire to the forest. The wind aiding, the conflagration spread with terrible rapidity, and a thousand Germans were suffocated or burned to death. | , A few got away. —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" service. Amsterdam, October 29. It is officially stated at Vienna.that the Austrians southward of Ivangorod ( engaged in desperate battle with Russians, whose numbers were vastly superior. AUSTRIAN ARMY STORES EXHAUSTED. London, Ootober 29 : • Trieste reports that a majority of the Austrians who have been guarding the Italian frontier have been sent in hot haste to Galicia and Servia. The results of the levy en masse of Austrians has proved unsatisfactory. Reservists summoned to the colours are expected to provide their own boots, winter clothing, and canteens,' a« j the army stores are completely exhausted — "Times" and Sydney "Sun" service.