DESPERATE FIGHTING IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 5

DESPERATE FIGHTING IN POLAND

FRESH PROGRESS IN GALICIA AN AUSTRIAN COLUMN AND STJ#F CAPTURED " ■ I Y (Reo. January 5, 7 p.m;) I na . ~. _, , , Peiirograd, January '4. Official.—There has been unimportant work on tie left bank of the Vistula, There was some desperate fighting on January ;2 and 3in the Bolimoff region, where the Germans lost six machine guns and a number of prisoners. We made fresh progress in West Galicia. A whole Austrian battalion sur-. rondered m the Uzolc Pass, and in the same district a hostile column with its staff was captured, together with military documents.' INFLUENCING RUMANIAN SENTIMENT. (Reo. January 5, 5.20 p.m.) , ■' Petrograd, .January 4. The "Bourse Gazette" says: "Our victorious advance in Bukowina will compel the Austrians to surrender or.cross the Romanian boundary, Jneattwhile our successes are influenping Rumanian, sentiment.—("Times'' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ' ' '■/ RETIREMENT OF AUSTRIAN GENERALS.' , ' (Rec. January. 5, 5.20 p.m..) •. London, January 4: Vienna announces the retirement of two generals, allegedly owing to illhealth; Other retirements of officers in high comimand are expected as the result of the roui in. Servia.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.

SIX GERMAN'ARMY, CORPS WITHDRAWN. London, January 4. ' Petrograd reports: "The Germane have withdrawn sis Army Corps from tho Warsaw front,' supposedly to guard against,; a, Russian attack on the Loivicz-Thdrn communications."- •:'•■. : ' :N I. i I - ' I ' ■ REINFORCEMENTS- FOR GENERALiVON HINDENBERG. Amsterdam, January 4. It is suggested that -the 200,000 Germans trfho passed through Cologne eastward will -reinforce -General von Hindenberg preparatory to another, great effort to hatter through .to Warsaw. , '.<.'.' ONE RUSSIAN ARMY ACROSS THE CARPATHIANS ' •' RUMANIANS EAGER TO JOIN THE RUSSIANS (Reo. January 5, p.m.) . London, January 5. The "Daily Mail's"' Petrograd corresponHent says one Russian Army is pursuing the'Austrians "on the Hungarian, side of tho 4 Carpathians, and another is approaching the frontier, in Transylvania, having almost subdued the' resistance in Kukowina. The Russians nearness to the Rumanian frontier is inoreasing the Rumanian eagerness to join them and seize Transylvania.