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WARSAW BOMBARDED. ZEPPELINS AND AEROPLANES SHOWER BOMBS. United Press Association. London, October 28. A Stockholm report states that Warsaw was bombarded by a German airfleet. The inhabitants were horrified at seeing the Zeppelins approach. Many aeroplanes also swooped down on the town and dropped a shower of bombs. The Russian guns, mounted on conspicuous buildings, vigorously replied.
FIVE DAYS' HOSTILITIES.
Petrograd, October 28
The conflict before Warsaw was eonducted fiercely for five days. A long trfiin of wounded came in, together with bands of German and Austrian prisoners. Villages-were burning in all directions. German shells burst within four miles of the town, yet the city remained thronged with people. Even the aerial visitations caused no panic in the populace, although fifty were killed and ninety-nine injured. Villages were taken and re-taken many times in the fluctuations of the battle. 'The German trenches were admirably constructed, as for a long stay.
The precision of the Russian artillery wrought desolation among the invaders. Then the Russians forced back the German wing beyond the Kalosch road while cavalry from the north cut into their rear. The Russians crossed over ten miles south of Warsaw unopposed; and found that the German retirement had begun, they being afraid of being caught in a vice by the Russian armies operating to the north and east. The retirement was unexpected. GERMANY ADMITS DEFEAT IN POLAND. London, October 29. reflprt*. ,■ that rGermans and Austrians were compelled to retreat in Poland before fresh Russian troops from Ivangorod and Warsaw. The German reserves have changed formation in accordance with the new circumstances. AUSTRIANS ENCAGE RUSSIANS IN DESPERATE BATTLE.
(Received 10.0 a.m.) London, October 29
An official message from Vienna states that Austrians sbuthwnvd of Ivangorod engaged in a desperate hattie with the Russians whose -lumboi'H were vastly superior. NEW RUSSIAN ARMY CROSSED THE VISTULA. GERMANS BURNED IN A WOOD. '' ——— TIMEB AN» §I?DNEY SllN SERVICES. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 29. Berlin reports that the new Russian army crossed the. Vistula north of Ivangorod.
! A correspondent writes that during the fighting opposite Kozenitze the Germans filled the thick woods with troops, including heavy artillery, when several small hndies of Russians stalked the German lines and fired the forest. The wind aiding, the conflagration spread with terrible rapidity, a thousand Germans being suffocated or burned to death. Few got away.
AUSTRIAN RESERVISTS SUMMONED HOT-HASTE.
Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) , . London, October 29.
Trieste reports that the majority of the Austrians guarding Trent and the frontier have been sent in hot haste to Galicia and Servia, the results of the levy en masse on the Austrians being unsatisfactory. Reservists summoned to the colors are expected to provide their own hoots and winter clothing and canteens, as the army stores are completely exhausted.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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