FIGHTING ALONG THE VISTULA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2364, 21 January 1915, Page 5

FIGHTING ALONG THE VISTULA

SERIES OF ENCOUNTERS GERMANS COMPELLED TO FALL BACK (Reo, January 20,11.15 p.m.) .... ~. . , . , , , , Petrograd, January 20. Official.—"A series of encounters took place throughout January 17 along the right bank of the Lower Vistula, on a. front extending from the river to Olva, on the Warsaw railway. The enemy's offensive was repulsed at Aglerzii) and he fell hack with heavy loss. There is no change on the other fronts." ' ] The High Commissioner's report to the Prime Minister, dated London ' January 20, 5.25 a.m., states that the Russians' further movement on the Lower Vistula continues successfully. There were important encounters at Konopienice and Vezhuni. A German battery attempting to aholl the Russians was silenced. ' i BEBLIN THE GOAL OP THE RUSSIANS. j (Reo. January 20, 6.40 p.m.) ' ~. _ . London, January 10. ' An Englishman who has returned from the Eastern theatre says that every Russian is bent on marching to Berlin, and judging from conversations he hrs had with officers the men will not stop till they get there. COUNT BERCHTOLD'S RESIGNATION :• ! STORMY INTERVIEW WITH THE EMPEROR ' I „ ■~ ~ , • x-r, . Rome, January 19. 1 Count Berohtold, always an anti-Servian, resigned, after a stormy inter- ' view with the Emperor, who reproached him for withholding the conse- ' ' guences of the ultimatum sent to Servia, and declaring that Russia would not ' intervene. ' i PEAOE AT ANY: PRICE FOR AUSTRIA. (Reo. 'January 20, 5.40 p.m.) „ London, January 19. 1 An Austrian lady who has arrived at Copenhagen asserts that the hatred of. the Germans for the English is nothing compared to the hatred of the Austrians for the Germans. The Austrian population, she says, is on the verge of starvation, and peace is desired at any price. i AUSTRIAN LOSSES IN ONE FORTNIGHT. * S Petrograd, January 19. r During the last fortnight in December General Dmitrieff captured 311 Austrian officers, 22,269 soldier?, andfifty-two guns. • ' c