Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 8, 11 January 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

CRACOW TO RAWKA. INTENSITY OF THE BATTLE FOR 36 HOURS. United Press Association. Loudon, January 9. The Daily Chronicle’s Poland correspondent, speaking of the fighting from Cracow to Rawka, reports that for thirty-six hours the battle shifted like a moving flame in a long line. The intensity has now abated. The Germans entirely failed to accomplish their plans, with ghastly loss to themselves. The fight at Cracow was characteristic of the encounters along the whole front. The Germans’ attack was exceptionally Heavy throughout New Year’s Day, culminating in an infantry assault by night. The German artillery throughout the day lavishly shelled the Russian trenches with huge 32-centin\etre howitzers. During the infantry charge the German Generals sacrificed men like water, and the ground became heaped with ridges of grey-clad dead. Upwards of GOOD Germans were killed at Cracow alone, and one night’s abortive fighting along the front cost them 30,000 dead and three times as many wounded.

THE 1915 RECRUIT LEVY. Petrograd, January 9. The levy of recruits for 1915, numbering 585,000 is being called np to February 15th. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Petrograd, January 9. Official: Fighting on the SukhaMoghilev front, on the left bank of the Vistula, is increasingly fierce. The Germans, notwithstanding heavy losses, are stubbornly attacking different points. The enemy captured some advanced trenches, but our vigorous counter-attacks, usually with the bayonet, forced them to relinquish them. We occupied Kimptoluhg on the 6th, and are continually fighting in Bukovina. During the last week we covered 120 versts, and reached the mountain range dividing Bukovina and Hungary. We captured a thousand Austrians, and much booty, CONDITIONS IN PRZEMYSL. ALARMING REPORT CAPTURED FROM AEROPLANE. / ——— (Received 9.5 a.m.) Rome, January 10. The Russians captured an aeroplane from Przemysl carrying an alarming report that there were 5000 sick troops in the city, that twenty degrees of frost was being experienced, and that the soldiers were burning the doors, windows and furniture with which to make fires to warm themselves.