Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

FIGHTING IN A SNOWSTORM FOR THREE DAYS. Unitid Pebm Association. Petrognul, January 18. Official: The battle of Kaurau-gau lastd for three days in a continuous snowstorm, and ended in a compitco •Russian victory. The Turkish rearguard was annihilated. Remnants of the army, harried on its flanks, are fleeing to Erzerum. ' Ihe pursuit is being pressed. The fugitives, bing unable to carry guns, flung them from the heights.

ON THE LOWER VISTULA. Petrograd, January 18. ■ A communique states that successful progress continues on the lower Vistula. Six German regiments made violent assaults on the 16th near Gumine, supported hy exceptionally heavy artillery fire. As a result of seven attacks, and desperate bayonet fighting the Gormans captured a single advanced trench. The Germans at Konopnitza this evening sapped within thirty paces of our entrenchments, but were overwhelmed with hand grenades. Russian volunteers, taking advantage of the confusion, used grenades on the communication trenches, forcing the enemy to retreat. Three attacks south of Pinczow were repulsed. The advance guards in Bukovina stormed the Kirlihaba Boss in the Carpathians, bordering on Transylvania.

ON THE GALICIAN FRONT. BRILLIANT FEAT BY CAUCASIAN REGIMENT. Times and Stdnej Son Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.), London, January 18. An officer who has returned from the Galician front states that the Rus. sians hold all the important passes. Ho records a brilliant feat by a Caucasian regiment, the members of which holding on to the tails of the,mountain ponies, at night time scaled an apparently impossible summit, thus getting to the rear, where they surprised and secured the surrender of a Konved battalion. GERMAN ATROCITIES.

THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT’S COMPLAINT. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Petrograd, January 18. The Government has requested the Swedish Embassy to complain to the German and Austrian Government’s of the soldiers’ atrocities. The ambulance men methodically despatched the mutilated and wounded Russians, and several Cossacks were hanged as the result of the German commander’s general order. Germans shot civilians at Kalisch without reason. The Prussians murdered a priest at Koviki. Austrians at Makovo Chatava violated women and girls and illtreated the population, particularly the priests, for refusing to give information regarding the Russian army. Germans also misused the white flag.