DESPERATE ASSAULT BY THE GERMANS IN POLAND.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2362, 19 January 1915, Page 5

DESPERATE ASSAULT BY THE GERMANS IN POLAND.

SEVEN CONSECUTIVE ATTACKS STbRMING OF A CARPATHIAN PASS Poirograd, January 18. A' oommunique states that successful progress continues along tho Lower Vistula. Six German reginients _ made violent assaults on January 16 near Gombin, supported by an exceptionally heavy artillery flro. As the result of seven attacks and desperate bayonet ■ fighting- the Germans captured on single advanced trench. _ ... "The Germans at Konopnitza in the evening sapped within thirty paces of our entrenchment, but were overwhelmed by hand grenades. The Russian volunteers, taking advantago of the confusion, used grenades on tho German communication trenches, .forcing the enemy to retreat. "Three attacks south of Pinczow (in Southern Poland, east of Oracow) woro repulsed. ■ ... , . "Our advance guards in tho Bukowina district stormed the Kirhbaba Pass (in the Carpathians, bordering on Transylvania)." The High Commissioner reports, under date London,_ January 18, 12.10 a.m.: "Potrograd roports that on the right bank of tlio Vistula there has been a successful advance against'the Prussians. On tho loft bank the enemy, stubbornly attacked the Russian positions in tho region of Kumur, six regiments making seven consecutive attacks. After fierce bayonet fighting the Germans took trenches. In other districts the enemy was repulsed from his positions by artillery fire. In Bukowina the Russian outposts havo captured the Carpathian Pass of Kirlibaba, bordering on Transylvania." AUSTRIAN ROUT IN SERVIA A GRIM DEBACLE DESCRIBED. London, January 16. A correspondent with tho Servians describing the Austrian retreat from Suvobar in the early' stages of the war says lie was impressed by seeing heavy guns buried and surmounted.by wooden crosses, as if they were fallen warriors. The Austrians removed the breech-blocks of the siege guiis Later the retreat became a debacle; the Austrians'. only thought was _to get beyond range of the guns. They -abandoned everything, cannon, Maxims, and ammunition wagons intact. Thousands of rifles wore thrown on the roadsido and the wounded left to their fate:—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" T Services. GREECE'S ATTITUDE FRANKLY STATED: (Rec. January 18, 5 p.m.) London, January 18. The Greek Minister, speaking in London, said: "We are not only in sympathy, but absolutely devoted to the cause of England in this' great world crisis.—"Times" and Sydney'"Sun" Services.