Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 58, 11 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES IN SER„ VIA. 100 PERSONS BURIED ALIVE. United Press Association. • Sydney, March 10. A business man, writing to the Hon. Tudor from London, gives an example of the Austrian atrocities in Servia, duly certified bv the Government Commission at Loznitea. One hundred and nine persons, from a child of eight years to a man over 80, were fastened together iu a double row elbow to elbow, and the whole mass was buried alive in a trench which had been previously prepared.

RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT.

Petrograd. 3larch 10

Official: Desperate lighting occurod yesterday along the whole of the Nie-§ men-Vistula front. We captured part of a supply column. The fortress of Osowiec is successfully engaging the enemy's siege batteries. The enemy southward of Khorjcle is bringing great forces into the fighting line. The Germans south of Drobin were repulsed with heavy loss. At Pilicia the action is alternately offensive and defensive. The Austrians in the region Baligorod continue their offensive, notwithstanding crushing losses in a desperate battle on the Bth. We recap-* hired the greater part of hill 992, near Ko/.souvka, and made prisoners of the remnants of a column near Klausso.