Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

RUSSIAN COUNTER-MOVE.

ESCAPE FROM JAWS OF CER-

MAN PINCERS.

(Received 8.45 a.m.)London, February 23

The Daily Mail’s Petrograd correspondent says: “The crushing blow Germany hoped to deliver has fallen short. The Russians extricated the main body from the jaws of the German pincers. The Russian countermove to the German advance has begun along 100 miles of front north of the Narew and Lohr rivers.”

OFFICIAL PROGRESS REPORT.

Paris, February 23

Official; Rheims was violently bombarded on Sunday night and Monday. Numerous civilians were victims.

We captured a line of trenches in two woods at Beansejour, and repulsed violent counter-attacks, inflicting heavy loss.

We captured the greater portion of die village of Stosswihr in Alsace.

MISCELLANEOUS.

United Press Association. Petrograd, February 23. After a fierce battle we captured Eijvacno, near Lorn/.a. After conflict with the enemy in considerable force in the Przasny region we captured several, villages and took six hundred prisoners. We captured the heights of Smolnik, '>ast of Lipkow, The Austrians reached within fifty paces of our positions, but were driven back with enormous losses. We attacked the Austrians south-east or Stanislavoi, and drove off two brigades at the bayonet point, taking twenty ifficers and a thousand men prisoners rnd capturing several machine guns. London, February 23. The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent states that Russian reinforcements have arrived at the East Prussian front, and that the German attack is expended, the troops being exhausted by their difficult march through deep snow. The offensive is now with the Russians. The Times’ military correspondent says if it is correct that the Germans have placed four new army corps in East Prussia and six in the South Carpathians, it would be interesting to know their composition. He believes that the training of the new troops has been of a hurried character, and he estimates events will show that the bulk of the German armies are in France, and that there has been no serious detachment of Germans from the west to the east. The Allies’ preparations for the offensive are rapidly being completed.