Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

THE WARSAW ATTACK. GERMANS’ DETERMINED WORK. United Press Association. Petrograd, January 12. During the past week the German offensive has been confined to a zone ton miles wide, thirty miles from Warsaw. Two army corps were engaged, one in the trenches and the other in reserve, the Germans straining every nerve to gain the Bolimoiv woods, where the fighting is fierce. Positions are frequently changing hands. Despite enormous sacrifices of men and unceasing bombardment, the Germans failed to make headway. Thirteen consecutive attacks were repulsed in one night. After the tenth attack the bodies were piled so high that the Russian riflemen were unable to shoot, and a party was sent out and arranged the heaps of bodies to form embrasures for the machine-guns. The three next attacks were repulsed from behind the shelter of the enemy’s bodies. At another point, at Rawka, a German six-gun field battery went into the open and shelled the Russian trenches. The Russian artillery demolished three,, killing the servers. The remainder took shelter, but came out later, and the Russians smashed two more guns, killing the crews. The last gun was served until it was destroyed.

ON THE VISTULA. Petrograd, January 12. Official: Germans ou the 10th attacked several points on the left bank of the Vistula unsuccessfully. At villages east of Skieruiewice they reached the entanglements, and tried to dupe us by calling,. “Don’t fire on your own men!” But wo poured in a murderous fire.', and then the coun-ter-attacks were driven off with heavy loss. AVe are cannonading German positions in Galicia. BLIND RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. EVIDENCE OF GERMAN BRUTALITY. (Received 9 a.m.) Reuter, at Petrograd, states that among the pitiful sights are the convalescent Russian, soldiers at Loberg who were blinded by the Germans with vitroil, walking about the town in single file'and being led by a rope. Newspapers state that Major Gostenkord, commandant at Lodz, ordered the shooting of six boys of the age of eleven to sixteen, for refusing to scout for the Germans.