Russia & Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 11, 31 August 1914, Page 5

Russia & Germany

RUSSIAN BAYONETS.

GERMAN REGIMENT PRACTICAL-

LY ANNIHILATED.

(Received 8.40 a.m.)

S. Petersburg, August SO

A general battle is in progress m the southern districts of Lublin Kholm. A magnificent Russian bayonet charge practically annihilated the Eleventh Houvoe Regiment.

Lublin.—Capital of a government of the same name in Russian Poland, 96 miles S.E. of Warsaw, on the left bank of the Bystricza river.

BATTLES PROCEEDING OVER 200-

MILE FRONT.

St. Petersburg, August 29,

Battles are proceeding between Lemberg and the Vistula, over a front of 800 kilometres (about 200 miles). KOENSCSBURG INVESTED.

Paris, August 29. Official news is to the effect that Koenigeburg is completely invested.

St. Petersburg, August 29

The Russians, when approaching Koenigsburg, dislodged the garrison outposts, and also occupied Allenstein, a town 65. miles to the southward on the river Alle.

• Tm> Alsatian array, under Grand Duke Frederick of Baden, is reinforcing the Germans in East Prussia.

( SEIZURE OF GERMAN GUNS.

, St., Petersburg,, August 29. } : PriiYdo Cri’stofT, colonel in the [Horse Artillery, - has- been decorated for ordering men to hitch off their own guns and gallop after the German guns. ‘Several oi which were captured and brought back by th# Russian troops under heavy fire.

GERMAN AIRSHIP SECURED BY

RUSSIANS.

St. Petersburg, August 29

Russians shot and brought down a German Zeppelin, which was hombardbigra railway station at Calaya, on the Polish frontier! The Zeppelin contained eight soldiers and two quickfirers, with explosives.