THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 734, 6 January 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

STRATEGIC RAILWAYS HELD

PANIC-STRICKEN. HUNGARIANS.

Petrograd, Sunday.

The Russians now hold the strategic railways connecting the province of Bukovina, in the extreme south-east of Galieia, with Western Galieia and Hungary, and are within 100 miles of Hungary by easy passes through the Carpathians. Thirty thousand panicstricken inhabitants of Bukovina and Transylvania have fled . into Roumania. London, Sunday. The Russian raid into the Hungarian Plain has increased the murmurings in Hungary. Official circles in Rome convinced that the Russian invasion of North-east Hungary represents the successful accomplishment of the long-cherished plans of Grand Duke Nicholas. Austrian reinforcements are being rushed up to the front, in the despar ate hope of checking the in - vaders. ' '

BATTLE OF FOUR RIVERS

THE GERMANS REPULSED

Petrograd, Sunday* Experts consider that th 9 bajttla of the four rivers in Poland is virtually: ended. The enemy everywhere have been repulsed with heavy losses. They continue to attack,- bat are only trying to gain time pending / new operations. v ' :. . " ■■;'.

There has been much hand-to-hand fighting during the last • few weeks, the Russians being invariably superior. Forty Siberians eroajsd the Bzura near Sochaetsbz9U at night with muffled paddies'. They crawled'into.a wood thr.ugV.the German linos and ignited a suburb where' German guns had given the .Russians a. lot oC trouble. Gavmans! in a cottage commenced firing, whereupon the Siberi*na stormed the eottaga and killed ev>-ry German. The Siberians suffered only a dozen casualties. The Germans veinly bombarded certain positions, for E.ev.eral days, and ultimately ceased firing. The Russians also ceased firing. A number of ambulance -men in Russian uniform, headed by a priest bearing a cross, and accompanied by hareheaded soldiers, appeared on the battlefield. The Russians left, their trenche.*, Whereuuon the ambulance men,' who were G«r.mans in disguise, poured a devastating machine gun fire into the ranks of the Russians, killing many: