Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 2 December 1914, Page 5

Russia.

GERMANS CRUELLY MISLED.

United Press Association

London, December 1. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports that, under the inspiration of a misleading order from the Kaiser, promising that the war would be ended if Warsaw were taken, the entrapped Germans hurled themselves against the encircling wall of Russians with the desperation of maddened wild animals. The carnage was awful. The Germans were obliged to climb over heaps of their dead comrades in order to reach the Russian bayonets. The Russians fought magnificently, but were in insufficient numbers. The Germans avoided a Sedan, but their retreat is perilous owing to the absence of roads. Russians from Lodz and Morga river still threaten the flanks, and Cossacks persistently harry the retreat. STUBBORN FIGHTING.

Petrograd, December 1

An army messenger states that the Germans west of Lowicz are abandoning the wounded, rifles, ammunition, and transport in their retreat, but the rearguard is fighting stubbornly, and defending the prepared entrenchments. The German force which was endeavouring to escape north of K.oluzski has been cut off, and is sheltering in strong entrenchments . They have also been reinforced by two infantry and one cavalry division. An official report tells that stubborn fighting near Lodz continues. The Germans have suffered great losses. The Russians captured several Austrian positions in the Carpathian passes, also capturing quick-firers and numerous prisoners. ; . GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS. Paris, December 1. Le Matin states it is understood that 30,000 Breslau troops have been sent to Cracow. BUKOVINA OCCUPIED. Bucharest, Novemoe'r 30. Russians have occupied the whole of Bukovina, capturing enormous quantities of arms, ammunition, and provisions. The Austrian Catholics fled. The Hungarian frontier is now entirely open. (Bukovina is an eastern province of Austro-Hungary, surrounded by Galicia, Russia, Moldavia, and Hungary. Czernowitz is the capital town). THE CZAR'S ARMY. AUSTRIAN POSITION CAPTURED. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Petrograd, December 1. Official: Obstinate fighting continues in the direction of Lowicz. German efforts to force a way to the region of Szercow, between Weilun and Piotrekow, were repulsed with heavy losses. After ten days' assault we captured the Austrian position on the crest of the Carpathians from Konecza to Ozoznko. Since November 14th we took prisoners fifty thousand Austrian troops and six hundred officers.

HOW RUSSIA'S SOLDIERS MARCH

Everything in Russia tends to make her soldiers great marching men. The distances in that country are great, and the nature of the country and its climate render it necessary that the peasant class, which furnishes most of the infantry, should work very hard in the fields during the spring and the summer. The same applies in the wheat prairies of Canada. In the winter many of the Russians are engaged in timber felling and hauling, while others go out hunting the wolf or hunting for fur-bearing animals. They are therefore men of great bone and stamina. The Russian infantry, in conjunction with the Cossack horsemen, have a novel method of arriving quickly at any required spot. There is a stirrup on one side of the Cossack's horse, and into that the infantryman puts one font, and with his loft arm he hangs on to the mounted man. The horses are strong, and carry the double burden at a. good pace where the country is favorable. Still, it is marvellous what the Russian peasant does in the marching line, in spite, of the fact that his jack-boots are heavy and his equipment heavier than that of other Continental soldiers.