Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 35, 12 February 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

HUNGRY HUNGARY.

DEPUTIES PETITION MINISTER FOR EARLY PEACE.

I Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February 11. A number of Hungarian deputies petitioned Count Burian, the Austrian Minister, in favor of an early peace, as Hungary was threatened with famine and insurrection. ! IN THE CARPATHIANS. QUARRELLING IN THE RANKS OF j THE ENEMY. REPORTED WHOLESALE SURRENDERS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February ]l. The Paris Press Bureau correspondent, dealing with the .fighting in the Carpathians, says the Austrian Army did not hold out unless promptly led by Germans. Tn Bohemia and Moravia the regiments were composed of mixed Slavs and Austro-Germans, who were constantly quarrelling. Even in some Hungarian regiments, which were commanded by Germans, the great wish of all was that the war should 1)0 ended.

The correspondent adds: "Numbers of Austrian units are so reduced that they are mere shadows of what they were, and some seem disappointed altogether. From the beginning the Bosnians surrendered in large numbers. Then the Poles began to arrive fast, and now the Bohemians in Roumania, and the Italian soldiers in Austria have also come over very easily. During the operations before Cracow, a number of Bohemians marched to the Russian lines singing songs and shouting greetings, and surrendered."

RUSSIA'S WAR BILL.

THE DAILY COST.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) United Pkess Association. Petrograd, February 11

It is stated in the debate that the war is costing Russia £1,400,000 sterling daily. BRILLIANT RUSSIAN ASSAULTS. GREAT CAPTURES OF THE ENEMY Petrograd, February 11. The Russian position at Kozio Maku, between Styre and Munkacs, is screened to the southwards by dense forests, whereas the enemy is unable ;to cross an extensive glacis fronting the Russians without their movements .being .-known and coming under, a sweeping artillery fire. At dawn on Sunday the enemy's infantry was hurled forward with terriffic impetuosity under cover of a furious artillery fire. They relied upon the momentum of enormous numbers to drive the Russians out. . Remorselessly and .unceasingly they scrambled up the slopes, in four or five closely ranged lines. Huge gaps were torn in -the front ranks, but they were rapidly filled. Thousands fell, but. still the human wave swept on and invaded a portion of the Russian trenches. A battery posted on the enemy's flank poured in a raking crossfire. Lieutenant Chebenyaeff, unsatisfied with the results, obtained permission to move the gun into the open, and advancing through a thick storm of shell, enfiladed the enemy's lines and lightened the defenders' task.

After an unexampled bayonet battle, the enemy'were driven out, and they fled downhill in an irretrievable rout, though for some time they fought with tremendous tenacity. The losses were stupendous, the contorted bodies of the slain being sharply silhouetted against the snow. The enemy's attempt to scale the heights in the depth of winter, in many degrees of frost, was an audacious one. Official: We captured, twenty-three officers, 1500 men and several guns in the Dukla, Lupkow, and Uszok passes.