Eastern News
CHEERLESS OUTLOOK FOR AUS-
TRIANS.
Times and Sydney Sun Service (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February Id
Austrian deserters at Pryzemysl state that the only meat rations consist of preserved horse flesh, and that the commander says they must not surrender until the soldiers are compelled to eat their own boots, j PRESSURE OF GREAT GERMAN FORCES. United Press Association. Petrogracl, February l Id. Official: The fighting in the Lyck, Raigrod, and Grajevo regions is very stubborn. Our troops further north are falling hack on the fortified line by the Xiemen (or Memel), under pressure of great German forces. We repulsed attacks in the Gorlice and SLieduik region, and captured the enemy’s fortifications at Smolaik, east of Lnpkoj, taking over a thousand prisoners. Stubborn fighting continues on the Tukl a-Wyskow front.
FORTIFYING CZERNOWITZ.
AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES.
Petrograd, February 15
The Russians are-fortifying Czernowitz. When the Austrians re-occu-pied the town in November they wreaked''-, horrible vengeance on the inhabitants with Russian sympathies. They hanged a number without trial, forcing the condemned to assist to hang their friends on crude gallows, and to watch their death agonies before they themselves were strangled. The Austrian executioner received five kroner for each victim.
FIGHTING IN BUKOVINA.
Petrograd, February 15,
Fighting continues in Bukovina. The Russians were reinforced and repulsed a series of attacks after entrenching north of Kimpolung, where the snow was very deep. Three Russian counter-attacks shattered the Austro-German line at three points, compelling a retirement. The temperature was 20 degrees below zero, and piercing ice-laden winds made it difficult to distinguish friends and foes at a hundred yards.
The Austro-Germans succumb to the cold more quickly than the Siberians. The, exposure is causing the wounded horrible sufferings. A thousand were enveloped in snowdrifts.
IN THE CARPATHIANS.
Petrograd, February 15.
The Retch’s war correspondent opines that during the period of the Austrian attack on the Carpathians, only two army corps were facing Servia. Three Bavarian corps at Orsova proved as badly trained as the Landstrum.
It is announced that since the beginning of the war Russia, has taken 49,600 prisoners.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 38, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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