Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 278, 21 November 1914, Page 5

Russia.

A GIGANTIC TASK.

RARE SKILL AND VIGOR. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.in.) London, November 20. Tne Times, in a leader, says: “Russia is fighting single-handed along a front of a thousand miles from the Baltic to the Carpathians. Simultaneously she is carrying the war into Asiatic Turkey. The task is gigantic, but she is exhibiting rare skill and vigor in its discharge.” DESPERATE BATTLES. United Press Association. Petrograd, November 20. Official: The battle in progress along the Vistula-Warta front and on the Czernstochona-Cracow line are extremely desperate, presenting generally ceaseless alterations of offensive and defensive. I'll German trenches eastward of Ajerburg, in East- Prussia, are defended by triple vertical lines of wire entanglements. We carried portions of these, and the passage between the Lakes of Buvelno and Yaklo, capturing ten guns, six machine guns, and several hundred prisoners.

AN IMPRESSION OF THE CZAR'S SOLDIERS. .'■■■'i • London, November 20. A correspondent who three weeks with the Russian army, says he received the most vivid impression of their soberness and good behaviour of the troops. He had not seen a drunken and disorderly soldier. Russia has under weigh a huge engine, moving with colossal momentum. THE INTER-RIVER AREA. GERMANS MAKE NO HEADWAY. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Petrograd, November 20. Official: The Germans between the Vistula and the Warta are unable to make headway. THE GERMAN LINES GREATLY STRENGTHENED. FIGHT HARDEST FROM LODZ TO THE VISTULA. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Petrograd, November 20. General Hiudenberg continues to pour troops in between the Vistula and the Warta, and has "greatly strengthened the advance lines andalso the other end of the line, around LeneZyea and Orloff. The brunt of the fighting lies in a swampy region with a forty-mile front, Lodz to Vistula.