RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN EAST PRUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN EAST PRUSSIA

SEVERAL VILLAGES OCCUPIED SIGNS OF A COMING CONFLICT (Rec. January 14, 8.20 p.m.) ' • Petrograd, January 14. Official.—"Artillery fire and Bldrmis'hing is proceeding along the whole of our front. We have made progress in East Prussia and south-east of Mlawa. • "In the southern area,' the Germans have made intermittent, but unsuccessful attacks." SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS OF FOREIGN ATTACHES. (Rec. January 14, 8.20 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 14. The; German railways have been practically reserved until January 18 for t 'the transport of troops. Foreign military attaches with the Germans on. the ' Western front have gone to the Eastern theatre. WAGING WAR BY PROCLAMATIONS. (Rec. January 14, 10.50 p.m.) < London, January 14. A Potrograd message 6ays that a feature of the Polish situation is the increasing practice of the Germans to wage their war by proclamations. The Ruesains, recently occupying a position, found posters .on wire entanglements asking them to become friends, as the Germans were treating the Russians kindly and supplying them with work, enabling them to earn money, and also offering seven roubles for every rifle delivered to the Germans. A number of Germans came to the Russian trenches with boxes of smokes and printed effusions, declaring that the war was due to a terrible misunderstanding. Captured German officers have been found in possession of proclamations asking the Russians to en' 3 the war. ' FIGHTING ON THE EASTERN PRUSSIAN FRONT RUSSIA'S SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE. The High Commissioner's report to the Prime Minister, dated London, January 14, 4.30 a.m., states: —' "Petrograd reports artillery fire and outpost skirmishes along the whole ' of tie Russian front. A Ilussian detachment advancing in Eastem'Prussia, east of Rosan (near the frontier), occupied everal villages. After the fighting in one of .these, the Germans were 'driven out by a bayonet attack. "South-east of Mlawa the Russians have progressed in the direction of Radzanow. Several German advances -were easily repulsed." Posen, in TSast Prussia, is just below the Masurian Lakes, about 10 miles distant from the Russian frontier. Mlawa, as iB now well lbiown, lies on the railway line from Warsaw, in Poland, to Soldau, in East Prussia, and is situated about six miles from the frontier. Radzanow lies soutli-west of Mlawa, and the Russians are advancing in a direction from the south-east. RUMANIA'S ENTRY INTO THE ARENA. . . London, January 13. The "Times" Sofia correspondent states that Rumania is expected to'begin action in Transylvania in the middle of February. PRO-GERMAN AGITATION IN ITALY. Rome, January 13. Pro-Germans are preparing a petition to the Government, asking it to maintain neutrality. .AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS SUCCEEDED BY A HUNGARIAN. Count Berchtold (Austrian Foreign Minister)' has reasons. , . . Baron Stephan Burian de Ha-jecz, a 1 Hungarian (member of the Hungarian Cabinet since 1913), succeeds him. (Rec. January 15, 0.20 a.m.) ' a , , ~ . . , , Copenhagen, January 14. A neutral diplomatist, interviewed, states that the differences between the Emperor Franz Tosef and Count Berchtold were such that the latter declined ■ to be longer responsible for Austrian war Dolicy, and advised that peace be obtained at the best possible conditions before Austria was absolutely ruined. THE AUSTRO-GERMAN ATTACK IN SERVIA. (Reo. January 14, 10.50 p.m.) mi ~«■■■■, , , Rome, January 14. • The newspaper "Romano" deolares that the pending Austro-German attack on Servia will not be a punitive expedition, but aims at ioinine hands with Turkey across Servia and Bulgaria. AUSTRIAN OPPRESSION OF SLAVS. (Rec. January 15, 1.5 a.m.) The 'Austrian authorities are more oppressive Slav population. Ten Czechs were hanged at Prague for possessing , the Russian proclamation to the Czechs. Many Serbo-Croatian leaders in Dalmatia have been imprisoned.