Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 5

Russia

GERMANS REPULSED AT SEVERAL POINTS. i ! United Prebb Association. Petrograd, December 23. Official: A series of hard combats took place on Monday, between the lower Vistula and the Pilica river, especially in the region along the left bank of the Pilica. Nearly all the German attacks were Repulsed with great loss. In only small districts did the Russians retreat somewhat, and then only in order to occupy more conevnient positions. The Germans who crossed in the Bzura region and at Gahrzeff were driven back towards the river. Many were killed, and nine machine-guns were captured.

The Austrians, who crossed the Nida in the region of Skowronno, were driven back/over the river at the point of the bayonet. Eighteen officers and a thousand men surrrendered.

The Russian activity in Galicia is proceeding satisfactorily, inflicting heavy losses, and making many prisoners at Mandt, Ryglice, and elsewhere. The garrison at Przemysl again sortied in different directions, but were everywhere repulsed,' with heavy loss.

HUMAN LIFE NOT VALUED.

London, December 23.

The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent, describing the repulse of eleven desperate onslaughts /on the Russian trenches in the Sochazew district, disastrously for the Germans, declares that human life is the only thing in which the Germans are not economic. The men charging were ordered to leave their tunics behind, so that if they were killed their uniform would clothe another victim. Every man, before charging, was served with spirits, mixed with ether.

AUSTRIAN TRAINS COLLIDE.

London, December 23,

Two trainloads of Austrian troops collided near Kaliscz, owing to a false setting of the points. Several carriages were smashed to matchwood, and al thousand were killed and wounded.

PALACE OF TREASURES DE&TROYED BY FIRE.

(Received 10 a.m.) Petrograd, December 23. Kutukhtus Palace at Urga was burned with the whole of its treasures. RUSSIAN STRATEGICAL OPERA* TIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 23. The London Times’ Petrograd correspondent maintriiiis that the backward movement along the whole of the Russian front is- due to strategical considerations, and was deliberately undertaken by higher command. The German attack north of the Vistula has plainly failed. The. Austrian movement in the Carpathians has been defeated.