Eastern News
MISCELLANEOUS. , Berlin, February 18. Official: The Kaiser is in the midst of the .fighting line at Masurian Tmkes. Only remnants of the Russian Tenth Army Corps escaped to the forest. Petrograd, February 18. ' A communique states that the fighting on the right rtf Vistula is proceeding with extreme desperation, hut »ftly encounters between patrols in the Nieraen region, Weronulscd attacks: ..(•> Hie 1 S'-rd -n’ 1 :’ di.vtri- , ' l - :
1100 prisoners. We sustained impetu, ous attacks, which were repulsed with heavy loss at Wyszkow, almost the whole German battery being bayonetted.
Eight or ten German army corps are operating in East Prussia. The Russians expected to. manoeuvre, but were outnumbered tenfold, and retired betimes, the Light Horse carrying on a • running fight. After laying waste the ■ entire region, both armies are disposing themselves on a fiat track. The forest country and- marshes are under show, Which is beginning to thaw. PRISONERS AND BOOTY FOR GERMANY. (Received 1.10 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 18. An official message from Berlin states that tho Germans took 3000 prisoners near Block, with great quantities of booty. Eastward of the Prussian frontier to date, they have captured (34,000 prisoners, 71 cannon, 100 machine gnus, three ambulance trains, 150 full ammunition waggons, and innumerable cars and horses.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 6
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209Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 6
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