OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2395, 26 February 1915, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT j THE STORY OF A HEROIC RETREAT j -! The High" Commissioner Teports *a3 i follows to the Prime Minister: — ■ London, February 24, 1.35 p.m. j Petrograd reports.—The eommunKfuS j referring to the retreat from East Pros* i sia applied to General BulgakofT's oom- i maud. Communication between him ana J the 10th Army being broken, that corps i found itself surrounded between Goldap j and Suwalki by incroased numbers of Germans. The army, fighting heroically, j against forces by wliicli'it was several. ! .times outnumbered, in three days marohed thirty-two miles, fighting the j whole time, and forcing a passass j south-east of the forest of' Augustowo. . The accounts of prisoners ■ state that heavy loss was inflicted on the German. ; force barring the war,- especially near; .v Ghita. It is reported that the corps fought to its last cartridge until it was. completely exhausted, valiantly repelling attacks on four fronts, holding its . . ■ artillery, and taking along many Ger- j man -prisoners. . Y-' Stubborn fighting on the nght bants | of the Bohr and the Narew continues. ■■ j On the 21st German detachments , ! were thrown back by the fire of the j fortress guns at Osowiec. . ■ '.-.I

Operation in Poland. f ...j Fighting is in progress on the roads i between Radzilof, Arzuzina, and Kolno ! (north of Lomza). Notwithstanding the i enemy's attacks, strong forces -held! ,j Jedwabno. A German attack,: support- | ed by armoured automobiles, was paiV ( ticularly intense. t The German offensive continues in tod;-;;;.) Przasnysz region. Three attacks on tho ; j town were repulsed, Russian armoured , ! automobiles contributing- to the euo-... -,f cess, their fire decimating the Germans .. J at seventy-five paces. On roads neai , Plensk some villages. changed handt several times. . • . •-j On the left bank of the Vistuiaii i south of a farm-at Mozely, three mmee j were exploded beneath a German trench i which we occupied, and the remainder ~ of the German trenchesi'with three ma- . ; chine guns and a mortar; with .bombs, j and prisoners, were captured. In the Carpathians. The Austrians bombarded a. con?ent j south of Jluzo Laborz, • withi 12-inch: , mortars. Persistent Austrian attacks t ' in the region of Okuw, Sraolnik, and ; Tiscowa. were repulsed, .the Russians itt-' j flicting enormous losses. In the region of , have-replaced the Germans. - -j