RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 5

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN POLAND

' EIERCE FIGHTING NEAR LOWICZ ' THE ADVANCE'TO THE CARPATHIAN PASSES '■■ • ■ * (Epo. Deoember 16, 9.10 p.m.) . . . Petrograd, December 15. Official.—"Our success in the Mlawa region has been maintained. Largo German, forces are concentrating on the left bank of the Vistula, and fierce fighting is' proceeding between Lowicz and' the Bzura' River, both sides alternately attacking.. We have made some progress; . "The enemy has markedly weakened along the Czenstochowa-Oracow line. Wa are completing a movement towards the Carpathian Passes, and fighting is 1 developing in Western Galicia." , , AUSTRLAKS CLAIM IMPORTANT SUCCESSES. ' ' , (Rec. December 16, 9 p.m.) \ r ; Amsterdam, December 16. An Austrian official/report states:r—We have compelled 'the Russians in Western Galicia to retreat, causing tKeii front in! Southern Poland to waver. During this advance and in the last battle we took many prisoners. We have reaobed the line of Jaslo-Rajbrot, It is reported that the Russiaiis are retiring along the whole line, fclong Rajbrot, Nieipolowice, Wolbrora, Nowo Radoirisk, and Piotrkow." [The above pine® names are along a line running north , from Cracow to Piotrkow. > Raj Dot and Nieupolowice are not traceable on the maps at our disposal J GERMAN COMMUNIQUE: AN ADMISSION OF DEFEAT. • . . Berlin, December 15. A communique admits that a German column advancing via Mlawa was forced to occupy former positions owing to superior Russian forces. BOHEMIANS AND MORAVIANS REFUSE DUTY. Basle, December 15. There lavs been frequent .revolts in the Bohemian and Moravian troops, in several cases the.men refusing to fire. A Bohemiaii battalion refused for two days to leave Prague for Poland. Ail the ringleaders and 10 per cent, of tie others were shot. (Rec. December 16, 5.20 p.m.) London, December 15. Thei superintendent of a London organisation in Venice states that the Austrian authorities miomanage their forces. Their men are marobed for six days and nights without rest, and hundreds of them fall out exhausted. Anybody revealing the trut'a about Galicia is hung, as being a. possible cause of revolution.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) THE AUSTRIAN DEFEAT IN SER VIA * OFFICIAL ADMISSION OF THE REVERSES. - Vienna, December 15. 'A'communique states! "Our offensive _south-east of Valjevo encountered the enemy in far superior numbers, necessitating the retreat ;of our forces, which, havp been fighting for many weeks tenaciously, witli great losses." The communique admits that Belgrade has been, evacuated. . SERVIA'S WAR CAPTURES JJO DATE. XReo. December 16, 5.20 p.m.) , London, December 15. ■ Nish reports that Servia's total captures up till last Friday aggregate 28,000 prisoners, seventy guns, and forty-four quick-firers. . REPORTED CAPTURE OF SERAJEVO FRENCH AND RUSSIAN INFANTRY IN MONTENEGRO. (Rec. December 16, 9.15 p.m.) ... - Rome, December 16. A m'esSage from Prague reports that French and Russian infantry are fighting alongside in Montenegro. A Cettirije dispatch_ claims that the Montenegrin army has crossed tho frontier and taken Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia), and captured th 6 railroad for several miles, and numbers of prisoners and war stores.