THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 739, 23 January 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

NEW OFFENSIVE BEGUN.

GREAT CAVALRY MOVEMENT,

RedeivedF riday, 10.30 p.m. London, Friday.

The Daily Telegraph's Warsaw correspondent aavs the Russians ,are initiating a great offensive movement wherein cavalry, "will, take a leading part. The Cossacks' horses are wcnderfuly fit, despite sixty-three days' field work. Their success is due to light transport across which they are able to go almost anywhere where a single horseman can'ride. Russian field fortifications before the Vistula are eighty miles. They consist of six rows of supporting trenches which are superbly built and are practically impregnable. The General Staff is no longer troubled over the Warsaw problem. The general policy is to continue to hold as many German troops as possible at the present, while bringing fresh armies to operate in a selected region. While the cavalry begin the offensive, fresh armies will form behind them which Will hold the invaded country. RUSSIANS KEEPING ACTIVE. PERSIA HELPING TURKEY. Received this Jay, r 12.5 a.m. Bucharest, Friday. The Ruasaii offensive is progressing with a marked superiority in numbers over the Austrian left wing, which is retiring on the left bank of the Dißtritza, leaving the Russians an open road 10 Doinawatwa. The Hun garians are advancing to the Distritza to arrest the invaders. Petrograd, Friday. There is no doubt Persia is secretly supporting Turkey. The conditions in North Persia are indescribable. Thousands are fleeing across, the Russian frontier, and hundreds are dying of starvation on the road.