Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

GREAT RUSSIAN VICTORY.

OPERATIONS IN POLAND.

United Press Association. Petrograd, February 26

Official: A most important victory was secured at Prasanysz. The Germans are shattered, and retreating. Petrograd, February 28.

Official: The enemy’s losses fn the Przasnysz region were very great. They were shattered by rifle fire and bayonet charges, well supported by armoured motor cars. The latter poured a machine-gun lire into the Germans at close quarters, and the enemy is retiring along the whole of this front.

We captured on Wednesday and Thursday thirty officers, twenty-six hundred men, seven guns, eleven machine-guns, and a huge quantity of equipment and commissariat.

We advanced in the Transchovok region on Wednesday with great success, and threw back the Germans who had crossed the Niemen.

There was obstinate fighting north of Grodno, where villages changed hands several times. German siege artillery have begun to bombard Osowice.

Wo repulsed the Germans between Polio and Edvabno inflicting enormous losses.

X «« MANY CEAMANS HOURLY CAPTURED.

(Received 9 a.m. ) Petrograd, February 26,

Official: The Germans are on the defensive along almost the whole front. A battalion with sappers advanced along the Bohr Valley, and the Russians with artillery waited until part of the column had crossed the river; then, they opened fire, annihilating the enemy. A few score of the .'survivors were captured. Our artillery at Ossoviec successfully engaged the enemy’s heavy batteries.

Our offensive at Prasuysz was vigorously pushed, and we captured the town of Prasnysz. The German retreat extends over a constantly-widen-ing front, and in some places it amounts to a disorderly flight. Great numbers are being hourly captured, our cavalry pursuing the retreaters.

The Austrians’ attacks 1 in the Rozinatoff district have been repulsed, and nineteen officers and 1595 men were captured.

RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN EASTERN GALICIA.

SEVERE BAYONET FIGHTING.

(Received 9 a.m.) t . London, February 28

Mr Martin Donohue (correspondent of the London Chronicle) states that the Russians recaptured Stamslavoff (Eastern Galicia), on Wednesday, at the bayonet’s point, there being desperate street fighting. The Austrians were routed and fled in confusion.

The Russians re-captured Kolomyje. There were severe engagements fifty miles north of Czernowitz (capital of Bukovina), which the Russians are again threatening.

RUSSIAN GENERAL'S’ CAPTURES.

(Received 8 a.m.) Petrograd, February 28. Official; Since the beginning of the var, General Brusiloff’s army has captured 1900 officers and 186,000 men.