Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 5

Russia

ACTIVE OPERATIONS. United Peess Association. Petrograd, ecember 31. An official communique states; “Assuming the offensive at Bolimon, the Germans, under heavy Russian fire, made an irruption in the village of Borgimo, and against the Russian trenches at Gumin. The Russians, in an impetuous counter-attack, killed all the enemy with the bayonet, except a few score, who were taken prisoners. Machine-guns inflicted enormous losses on the enemy. ' The Russians, after a stubborn struggle, captured the enemy’s trenches southward of Possade, near Inovlodz, The enemy captured an entrenched position at Bokhineter, but was subsequently routed. We are progx - essing victoriously in West Galicia. We stormed and carried several fortified works eastward of Zakittchine, capturing 44 officers, 1500 men, and eight quick-firers. The Russians, by a determined attack, dislodged the Austrians from strong positions south-west of Tinkla, putting them to panic-stricken flight. We had an important success southward of Disko, and also repelled sorties from Przemysl,

GENERAL. Paris, December 31. A wireless from Berlin states that the fact must be faced that the Russian extreme left wing is proving superior. Petrograd, December 31. Germans in the Lodz district shot three Roman Catholic priests for refusing to preach - in favor of Polish submission to Germany. Scores of children in Russian Galicia have been sent to Russian monasterteries and convents, their parents having been executed or imprisoned by the enemy. Forty inhabitants Tn one Carpathian village were hanged. London. December 31 The Times’ Petrogr o / 1 -''■■respondent writes: “Trustworthy sources assert that during three weeks on the Upper and Lower Vistula, along the lines from the Bznra, Rawka, and Nida, and also in Galicia, the Austro-German killed, wounded, and missing reached 300,000, of a million and a quarter engaged . TIUKO AND Rtuvfv di-nr duRVIOHa. London, ‘January 1. German casualties in Poland and East Prussia since 9th November are estimated at 600,000.