Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 52, 4 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, March 3. A Petrograd correspondent writes that despite the mendacious reports of our success at Prasrvysz, we know that the Germans sustained utter defeat. If at certain points of this front they are still offering resistance it is because the homeward journey of the main body, and the raiders who ventured towards Xiemen, and round Jedwabne, winch commands the only road to Osowicz from the west. The enemy is fighting desperately against our flanking movement. The Russians are threatening the whole northern flank of the enemy's position.

CAVALRY WORK DANCEROUS TO ENEMY. RUSSIANS ON ROUMANIA'S FRONTIER. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, March 3. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports that a Russian cavalry movement at Kradmolielc last Friday cut the German forces in East Prussia in two, while there is a considerable gap between the separated parts.and the main Austrian ainiy. Their position is dangerous, owing to the sudden offensive Russian movement.

Fresh Russian artillery is reported to be arriving at Provosetica, on the northern end of the Roumanian frontier.

Przasnysz, the district in which the Russians have beaten back the Germans so effectively, is one of the divisions of the government of Plock. The town of the same name lies only some twenty miles from the East Prussian border. A fair road leads northwards to the German districts of Neidenburg and Ortelsburg, and no doubt it was by way of this road that,one of the great German columns advanced to the invasion of Poland. On either side are stretches of marsh, so that the front for an invading force is somewhat restricted. The district of Przasnysz is a part of old Poland, but became part of Prussia in 1793, falling to Russia under the distribution at the Treaty of Vienna. Those who have asked for the pronunciation of the word must rest content with Pshashnitz, which is the simplest dictionary approximation to the actual sound.