Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

OFFICIAL PROGRESS REPORT.

United Press Association. Pevrograd, March 5

Official: During to-day at Roverjuka. in Eastern Galicia, we took prisoners 47 Austrian officers and 3000 men. The Austrians continue their abortive attacks between Ondawa and the San, suffering immense losses. Me lepelled them with hand grenades and the bayonet, and by counter-attacks captured prisoners and guns.

The Russians are progressing in the Grodno, Niemen, and Mlawa districts.

OPERATIONS IN POLAND.

Petrograd, March 5.

The Russians have captured Kerjeck, twenty-one miles north-east of Prasnysz.

PEASANTS ASSIST THE RUSSIANS.

(Received 8.45 a.m.)

Petrograd, March 5

Peasant men and women in Northern Poland, during the German invasion, armed only with old muzzle-loaders, scythes, and hay forks, voluntarily patrolled the roads in the forests. Jhe Grand Duke was delighted to see some of them with the Germans whom they had captured.

TREMENDOUS CONFLICT IN THE CARPATHIANS.

United Press Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Rome, March 5. The Austro-Hungarian censorship over despatches is increasingly severe; nevertheless the reports show that a tremendous conflict is raging over the whole of the Carpathian front. TREMENDOUS GERMAN CASUALTIES AT KERJIK. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Petrograd, March 5. An infantry brigade of the 20th East Prussian Army Corps suffered tremendous casualties at Kerjik, 000 being made prisoners. RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN GALICIA. THE AUSTRIANS. United Press Association. (Received 12.25 p.m.) Bucharest, Match 5. The Austrians have evacuated Czernovvit/j.