THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 50, 15 October 1914, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

COMBATANTS IN DANCER OF DREADED WILD WOLVES

[By EtBOTEio Tiujsgbaph—CoPYßiqiiT] United Pbess (Association. (Eeceived 8.40 a.mJ Petrograd, October 14. Official. —A battle commenced on Sunday on the left bank of the Vistula along roads leading to Ivangorod and Warsaw, the Eussian main force holding a line from Candoniito Ivangorod against one and a half million Germans, including the Landsturm and Landwehr brigades and 270,000 Austrians. Every Austrian division was linked with a- German corps, by which it was hoped to give the necessary stiffening. ■ The German line extends to Jaworow, north of Przemysl, but there has been a tentative advance, in Galicia. Their chief strength is in Southern Poland, though German reports claim there were 40,000 Eussian casualties near Przemysl. The Aus-tro-Germans are trying to effect a double envelopment of the Eussians in Galicia and Lublin. - The German left was repulsed with- heavy* losses in 1 a ll sanguinary skirmishes at Skierniewice, in East Prussia. The fighting in the recent engagement at Eatchka was a hand-to-hand fight between Don Cossacks and Germans-. The* former swam the river and got behind the Germans, which thus enabled them to capture 3000 prisoners, one complete battery, and eight armored motors. The fighting at Augustowo took place in a dense fog. The Germans on several occasions advanced to the very muzzles of the Eussian guns. During the fighting, wolves were continually hovering round and pouncing on the dead and wounded. The stretcher-bearers frequently fired on the wolves. An incident on the battlefield at Augustowo shows the Germans at their best and worst. Eussians found a Eussian officer with his face covered with a cloth, and on his breast a gold watch, with a note, saying: "An honored enemy. We have taken only his notebook for the sake of the military information. Unfortunately, we were unable to take this severely wounded man as we have ourselves many wounded.'* Near by were the bodies of six Cossacks with their ears cut off and their eyes gouged out.