FIERCE STRUGGLE IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 5

FIERCE STRUGGLE IN POLAND

HUGE GERMAN LOSSES

MEN SACRIFICED LIKE WATER

(Reo. January 10, 8 p.m.) London, January 9. The "Daily Chronicle's" Poland corrospondont, speaking of the fighting from Cracow (?Grabow)to R-awka, Bay?: "Jfor thirty-six hours the battle shifted like a moving flame in a long line. Its intensity h. now - Tho Germans have entirely failed to accomplish their plana, with ghastly loss to themselves- The fight in Cracow was characteristic. The encounters alone the whole front of tho Germun attack wore exceptionally heavy throughout New Year's Day, culminating in an infantry assault at night. Tlie German artillery throughout tho. day lavishly sholled the Russian trenches with their iiuge 32 centimetre howitzers. ... "During tho infantry charge tho German Generals saorifioed men 11K0 water. The ground was heapod with ridges of grey-clad dead._ Upwards ot sis thousand Germans were killed at Grabow alone, and one night s abortive fighting along the front cost them thirty thousand dead, and three times as many wounded." The place referred to in the message is apparently Grabow, a town just north of the Bzura River, and about 28 miles N.W. of Lodz, and 60 miles W. of the junction of the Rawka with the Bzura. ENEMY'S ATTACKS INCREASINGLY FIERCE. Official.— "Fighting on the Sukha-Moghilev front on the left bank of the Vistula is increasingly fierce. The Germans, notwithstanding heavy losses, are stubbornly attacking at different points. The enemy oaptured some advanced trenches, but our vigorous counter-attacks, usually with the bayonet, forced them to relinquish them. "We occupied Kimptolung on January 6 (in the Crownland of Bukowina, on the Moldava River), and have been continually, fighting in Bukowina. During last week we covered 120 versts, and reached the mountain range dividing Bukowina from Hungary. Wo have captured one thousand Austrians, and much booty. KAISER'S LATEST PROCLAMATION. (R-ec. January 10, 3 p.m.). London, January 9. P The "Daily Clironiole's" Poland correspondent states that the Kaiser's \ latest proclamation, found on some German prisoners, states that if they are compelled to retire from Poland they must "leave standing neither house nor town—only the bare earth underfoot.." . AUSTRIANS COMPELLED TO RETREAT. Amsterdam, January 8. 'An Austrian communique mentions-vHt the 'Austrians in the Carpathians were obliged to retreat towards the main passes before superior Russian forces. RUMOURED PEACE OVERTURES TO SERVIA / AUSTRIA PREPARED TO PAY HEAVILY. Paris, January 8. According to the well-informed Rome correspondent of the "Petit Parisien,"' Austria is complaining more and more t hat she is being sacrificed by Germany, and-is disposed to secure separate peace, even at a heavy price. London, January 8. The "Morning Post's" Rome correspondent states that he has heard a rumour that Austria has offered Servia. peace on the basis of "as you were," with the additional offer of Northorn Albania, including Durazzo, and the north coast to the Montenegrin border. RUSSIA'S NEW RECRUITS CALLED .UP. January 10, 8.20 p.m.) The 1915 recruits for the Army will be called up by will number 585,000.