HOW THE ENEMY CAPTURED PREZEMYSL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2481, 7 June 1915, Page 5

HOW THE ENEMY CAPTURED PREZEMYSL

RUSSIANS EVACUATED THE PLACE GERMAN REGIMENTS TOOK NO PRISONERS (By Telegraph—Press Aesn.—Copyright.) : i -itt , t . - . . Petrograd, Juno 4. Umoial. Wo have been for some time removing gradually from Vrvrmvcl yanous material taken from the Adrians. This con%lcted'\f r™d il !? batteries on Tuesday. \Ae evacuated on the following night in conform lty with orders, our position on the west, and:north fronts, and formed a mora concentrated force oil the east. a more The enemy has concentrated very large forces in the vicinity of Stryj and made progress on the (PBistntza) front, though suiferinE \ e rv great losses. .We captured a thousand men m counter-attacks. RUSSIANS ACCEPT THE DEFEAT WITH STOICISM GERMANS BUTCHER A WHOLE RUSSIAN COMPANY. class" 016 faU ° f • Przemyfil as bean reooived lrit t all It is regarded as a mere episode in-the great complicated strueele and its loss is considered temporary. ' Experts declare that sound generalship could not risk a laree ttnssi™ forco being cut off in a fortress, especially as the ever-increasing concentrations of Austro-Genuans towards Stryj show their determination 'to force a way to Lemberg at all costs. A chaplain with the Third Army, in retreat in West Galicia, narrates that many German Tegiments took no prisoners They bayoneted both the wounded ana the doctors attending them. had retired ° COasi ° ll tbey entetcd a lurlun e wood, whence a Russian battalion Thoy were all surrounded by the flames. German Regiment Holds a Butohering Competition. . On another ocoasion the German cavalry, on capturing them took a Russian company into an open space, and the whole regiment held) a competition 111 cutting dowu and butchering the Russians to the last man. A German airman threw bombs on children gathered around a road ikon Many were killed. The Austriaus often vainly protested against the German barbarities. The chaplain adds that German i>atrolg .at several villages in the Pratezk district took every hundredth inhabitant from his house, left his house in ruin, and threatened to revolver tho inmates unless the inmates delivered all their provisions to the last loaf. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE SAN. (Rec. June 6, 3.20 p.m.) . , _ . , . , Petrograd, Juris 5. Official.—We gained further successes on the left bank of the San par-' tioularly westward of Rubnik, wliero wo continued to drive back the oncmv wlio is in disorderly retreat. '' The enemy on tho right bank of the Sau continues to attack in tho Wisznia Valley. The fighting continues. We inflicted enormous losses on the enemy at Krukieuce, between Przemysl and the Dniester, driving him back. Our troops, between the rivers Tisteica and Strji, are hampering tho enemy's progress, and he fell back at the Dniester bridgehead. Tho enemy on Wednesday night attempted to rush our entrenohments, but was repulsed, abandoning heaps of bodies outside tho trenches. We counterattacked in the night, and captured 70C prisoners, including several officers besides capturing some machine-guns. ' THE BOOTY ! HAS NOT YET BEEN SURVEYED. (Rcc. June 6, 2 p.m.) , , , Amsterdam, Jun« 5. A German official report states; "After the fighting wo reached the villages of Przemysl. Tho booty has not yet been surveyed. "General von Marwitz stormed tho heights on both sides of Mvstatvcza and General Linsingen is about to cross tho Lower Strji, north-westward of tho town of Strji, which is important." GREAT REJOICINGS IN BERLIN AND VIENNA'. (Rec. Juno 6, 2.15 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 5. There are great rejoicings in Berlin and Vienna ovor the capture of Przemysl. It is noteworthy that the fall of the fortress was promptly followed by a strict closing of the Belgian, frontier, a step usually presaging a great movement of German troops. GERMANY HOPES TO TRANSFER LARGE FORCER TO FLANDERS. (It«\ June 6, 2.15 p.m.) London, June. 5. Petrograd correspondents point out that Germany to retransfer large forces to Flinders if t-he is ahle lo push the Russians back sufficiently to render the movement. sof<... German <3r<tpp«tl asplij-sintjug t;i«i bombij sji jlie •jßsara-.Rftffka frontier.