GERMANS BADLY BEATEN AT KALISZ

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 5

GERMANS BADLY BEATEN AT KALISZ

HEAVY LOSSES TWO AUSTRIAN DIVISIONS ANNIHILATED 'A' telegram from Petrograd states that the Germans' wre 6 badiv Wton north of Kalisz (on % western German-Polish frontier), and lost manv killer! and twelva big guns. - . 'AUSTRIAN' DIVISIONS OUT OFF, ' Bukarcst, November 13 ■ ■ _ _ Whila a small Russian force made a frontal attack 011 two Austrian 'divisions at tho River Prutk (which flows between Russia and Rumania) the main Russian force concentrated at Storozynntz, south of the river in the province of Bukowina, cutting off the Austrian retreat. Both divisions were annihilated. GERMAN PEOPLE FLEEING FROM SILESIA'. •11 • t ,d r l . ..V • Copenhagen, November' 13. Advices from Berlin state that there is a panic in East Silesia. The civilians are fleeing to Berlin, Drosdon, and other cities. IF AUSTRIA"'ABANDONED GERMANY? (Rec. Novombor 15, 3.30 p.m.) ~ n •, • 1 •, • , j,, New Yorh|. November 13. _ In financial circles. it 19 believed that Austria has asked the United Stateß "nolßcmlly, asking what torma would bp allowed Aub*>»a tf jJift abandoned Germans &nd eu^ffar mn independent?!:,

OFFICIAL' 'REVIEWS BUBSIM POSITION, (Reo. November 15, 6.5 •p.m.) n/c • i un _ PBtrograd, NoyemT>er 14. ymcial. — Ito progress in .East' Prussia continues. ,We captured fivg howitzers at Solaau, and occupied Tarnow (in Galicia)."' . _ Fighting continues at, Stalluponen and for the possession o£ ,'th<£, eastern chain or the Masurian Lakes. A German offensive movement lias ■ commenced. from Thorn in Prussia. Onbotli banks of the Vistula, towards Wlodawek (m Poland), tlie Germans are moving towards the frontier. The Russians assaulted a fortified.position held by Turks near fcho Uyeok Pass on the night of November 11. The Austrians have retreated.; ( (Rec. November 16, 5.5 p.m.) - ■ : Petrogrart, November 14.' i'or several weeks six thousand workmen have been engaged day . and night perfecting the defences of Thorn. The armament includes si - thousand guns, sixty per centum of which aTe long-range weapons. '

Stalluponen is a town in East Prussia, about four miles from tte Russian border and 15 miles east of Gumbinnen. It has a population of 5058. .The Uysok Pass is one of the principal pa 6ses through. the eastern Carpathians. It is traversed by the road from Sambor (in Galicia. 40 , miles 6outh-west of Lemberg) to Ungohai on the southern sido of the, (mountains