Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 67, 22 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

A SORTIE AT PRZEMYSL, OPERATION ON THE BLACK SEA. GERMANS REPULSED IN EAST PRUSSIA. Unites Press Association. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Petrograd, March 21. Official.—Details are given of the repulse of four regiments during a sortie at Przemysl. We captured 107 officers, 3954 men, sixteen machineguns. The prisoners describe the losses of killed and wounded as enormous. Advices from the Caucasus state that the Russians are marching westward on a wide front along the Black Sea coastline. The new Turkish formations intended to replace the Erzercout garrison will be simply continued, and their fate will be settled by cutting off all sources of supplies. The Germans, in a stiff fight, at Tanroggen, were repulsed over the frontier. The official reply to the German threat of reprisals points out that Memel was defended by armed forces, whilst the inhabitants participated. RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. Petrograd, March 21. , Official: Memel was*captured after street fighting, in which the inhabitants participated. The Germans, attacking in close order near Mysyniec, north-eastward of Przemysl, were routed with enormous losses. The thirty-ninth Houved Division was severely defeated southward of Ciezkowice, in Galicia. A sortie from Przemysl was driven back with serious losses. We captured Vysel, on the left bank of the Xiemen. a We repulsed a counter-attack in the Volyi region. The Germans had heavy infantry losses. They sent four divisions of cavalry through the marshes to support their infantry and envelop the main flank. Our artillery ' suddenly attacked, killed and wounded most, and dispersed the remnant. Amsterdam, March 19. The Russians advanced so rapidly on the German frontier that the Guards lost heavily before taking refuge in Memel fortress.