THE CAMPAIGN IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2343, 28 December 1914, Page 5

THE CAMPAIGN IN POLAND

, ' ' QUIET ON THE VISTULA FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE PILICA ByTelwwk—Frew ifl»ootaU«B-C»iijTlrlii (RfiO. December 27, 3.40 p.m.) Patrograd, December: 26. Official.—The situation on the Vistula h unchanged. All the day and night attacks in the district of Soohaozew and Bolimow were repulsed, lighting continues on tho banks of the Pilica. • Two infantry, regiments exhibited the greatest bravery among the spurs of the Carpathians. They crossed the Jasiettca up to their waists in water under a murderous firo, and dislodged tho - Austrian* with tho bayonet, and made prisoners of 154. . • , _ . _. . .... The total number of German prisoners in Russia to December 23 is 1140 i officors and 131,737 men; Austrian, 3186 officers and 211,447 men. ! fSochaczew is on the Bzura, about 36 miles west of Warsaw. _ Bolimow is about 12 miles south and slightly west of Sochaczew. The Jasiettca River Tims into tho Biver Wistok, which in turn runs mto the S(>n River.] I TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER IN THE BZURA BATTLE I ■ SERIOUS BREACH MADE IN GERMAN LINE. (Red. December 26,, 7.30 p.m.) London, December 26. The "Daily Chronicle's" Warsaw correspondent says the battle near the ■' Bzura is raging unceasingly, and recalls the Yser (in Belgium) in the terrible slaughter. The Russians' and Germans are strongly entrenched on opposite sides of the rivor. - The Germans make incessant attacks in close formation, seeking to crush the Russians by sheer weight of numbers, but so far the ■-; German charges have always been driven back with heavy loss. The Russians ■ fxmtinue to make dashing counter-attacks, an outstanding examplo being ono ' bv the Siberians at Sochaczcw on Sunday, when tho Germans abandoned five r machine gine and two aeroplanes. Tho sccno of tho fighting was a flat _ expanse of damp fields, not covered with snow, but a bleak wind uas blowing, and thoro was much water in tho tronches. ...,,. %»- The authorities at Petrograd attach much importance to the Rus^nns Waking a serious breach in the German line on the PihcOi THE BZURA RIVER CAMMED WITH CORPSES. (Rec. December 27, 3 55 p.m.) London, December i! 6. The "Daily Chronicle's" Warsaw correspondent gives further details of the fighting at the BzUfa. The Germans on December 19 mnde fivi' desperate night attempts to establish a footing on tho eastern bank. Though tho searchlights were playing And the file from the Russian trenches mowed clcnin the lines of the enemy's ranks, tho Germans dashed into the icy, bullct-whip-'pod water, which reached to the aimpits, but only once reached tho eastern t bank The rest of the attackors suffered immense losses, sometimes a whole liattalion would be blotted oufc in a quarter of an hour. General Mndritoff, who made his reputation in the Japanese war. commanded the Russians in tins rO2 ' < 'Jiio fighting reached its climax on the twentieth, when a second German Bttark succeeded in dragging seveial mitrailleuses and enfilading the ticnchos of the Ist Sibeiians, and captured the tenches. IVo horns Inter flift .Siberians, Who wore reinforced, letook tho trenches, and diovn the Ocimans.into •the rivfer, where tbev fought hand-to-hand in the water, each Mdo rcceiViiiK I*lll. ' foriements. Th 6 riVer at this point is fifty yerrts wifle, and to littrtlly dammed with corpses/ The Struggling wotffldtd tneft dtOftuftd, gntfenfiltd fl,monn rta dea^ 1 -

DESPERATE FIGHTING IN SOUTHERN POLAND. (Rec. December 28, 0.5 a.m.) . . Petrograd, December 27; Official.—There has been desperate fighting along the Lower Nida, and a further four thousand Austrians have been captured. The fighting along the whole front in Galicia is favourable to tho Russians. . • OFFICIAL ADMISSION OF THE BZUEA DEFEAT. : (Rcc. December 28, 0.5 a.m.) • . London, December 27. A German official wireless admits that th'e German attacks on tlie Bzura have ceased. . AUSTRIANS CLAIM TO HAVE CAPTURED A PASS. v . (Rec. December 28, 0.5 a.m.) . ' Amsterdam, December 27. An official message from Vienna/ states that the Austrians have captured th'e TJszok Pass and that the Russians, in superior force, recaptured Krosno and Jaslo. • [Krosno and Jaslo are about 18 miles to the north of the Dukla Pass and the two towns are about nine miles apart.] ' The Uszok Pass crosses the Carpathians 60 miles S.B. of Dukla, which Has been the scene of recent fighting, and. lies 50 miles south . of Przemysl. The Austrians presumably advanced into the pass from' Hungary.