GERMANS ON THE RUN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 4 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANS ON THE RUN

RETREAT FROM THE PRASNYSZ LINE ENEMY'S NORTHERN FLANK , IN PERIL FIERCE FIGHTING I THE ■ CARPATHIANS AUSTRIANS SEVERELY HANDLED ■IN THE BRITISH LINE THE COMMANDER'S REPORT CLYDE CRISIS OVER

After many weeks the public is at last given a bird's-eye view, as it were, of "the two great naval engagements of the war—the Falkland Islands battle, in which Vice-Admiral Sir. F. C. Sturdee's fleet defeated the German fleet from the Western Pacific, commanded by • Count von Spee, and the North Sea victory,'when Sir David Beatty's battle-cruiser squadron chased and severely handled a German raiding Bquadron which was making for the English coast. The dispatches of both the British Admirals make most' interesting reading. In Poland, the Russians, are establishing, by a vigorous pursuit, the ascendancy gained over the Germans at the battle of Prasnysz; the enemy is defending! desperately only at'those points where their railway communications are in danger. One report states that the whole of the Germans' northern flank is. menaced by tho Russian move- • 1 ments. In Galicia there has been hot fighting. The Austrians have been severely handled in the Carpathians, and at Bukowina the Russians have marched within 12J miles of Czernowitz, the capital, from which they retired some days ago before the pressure of superior forces. The Clyde engineering strike is over, the men having decided" by an overwhelming majority te return ts work.