Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 280, 24 November 1914, Page 5

Russia.

PANIC IN PRUSSIA. United Press Association. Copenhagen, November 23. Panic and excitement are general in East Prussia. Forty thousand are fleeing daily. The situation is so serious that Germany is obliged to abandon her intention of evacuating East Prussia and Silesia, in order to win a decisive victory in the west.

ARRIVAL OF FRESH TROOPS FROM WARSAW. DECISIVE RESULT DEFERRED. (Received 11.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, November 23. A communique from Berlin declares that the arrival of frffsh troops from Warsaw has deferred the decisive rosnlt in Poland,

OFFICIAL NEWS. The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner, dated London, 23rd: — Official.—Russian successes against the Prussians in the Cracow battle were decisive. The German attempts to march on Warsaw proved unsuccessful. Snow is impeding operations in both theatres. There have been intermittent bombardment in the regions of Arras and Oise, but several lines of German trenches have been taken. The Allies’ artillery repulsed massed attacks in the Woevre districts. GENERAL. Rome, November 22. The Tribune announces that 40,000 East. Prussian fugitives have arrived at Inslerburg, where the entire population became panic-stricken, and is preparing to fly. It is stated that the Austrian commander of Przemysl offered to surrender on condition that the garrison was left at liberty. The Russians refused. Four Austrian Army Corps which escaped from the battle of the San are now at Przemysl. The defenders of Przemysl are decimated by cholera. The victims are buried in quicklime in huge pits on the outskirts of the town. The epidemic necessitated the destruction of a great amount of provisions. The Russians are exhausting the garrison prior to tfio final assault, possibly on the day of the Feast of St. Nicholas, on 6th December.

The garrison, by two desperate sorties, reached the main body of the Russians seven miles from the city, but when they found they were between two cross-fires they wore obliged to retreat. Petrograd, November 22. Official: Fighting on the Vistula ami Warta continues with supreme determination. We gained partial successes, and captured 2000 prisoners and several quick-firer^. On the Ocnstocbowa-Cracow front we forced the Austrians to evacuate Newsandec.