Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 71, 26 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

ALLIES MUST ADOPT RUSSIAN METHODS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 25. A military authority at Petrograd says: "The Russian methods at Przcniysl were to husband their forces until the garrison was unable to hold out. The same course must lie adopted by the Allies, who must bide their time and force Germany to surrender. Up to the present, we have withstood her furious sorties, and we will soon be beginning to draw closer the investing lines. Only one end was possible at Przemys], and the German fate is equally sure." DEVASTATED POLAND. AN APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, 3VJarch 25. M. Paderewski says that two hundred Polish cities and towns, with 1400 churches and 7500 villages and hamlets, have been destroyed, and that over ten million, mostly of the rural population, have 'neither shelter nor bread. He appeals to Australasia for help. RUSSIA'S GREAT SUCCESS.

Petrograd, March 25. Exclusive of Przemysl, the Russians in Galicia have captured 110,000 men, 30 guns, and 320 machine-guns since January 21s't.' Official.—Fights at isolated vantage points on the right bank of the river Narew have become more general and more desperate. The Germans have been strongly reinforced and are stubbornly defending their line, subjecting us to a hurricane of fire, and making vigorous counter-attacks with numerous fresh troops. The Russians ire slowly but surely capturing the trenches on the heights. Russians in the Carpathians are advancing. They seized several fortified heights between the roads to Bartfeld and Uszok, and captured four thousand prisoners and several dozen machine guns. ■ , HUNGARY GREATLY DEPRESSED Venice, March 25. The fall of Przemysl greatly depressed the Hungarians. General Von 3choenich, late War Minister, states that "Everything now depends on the tremendous battle raging in the Carpathians. • If we are successful there Przemysl will be merely an episode." A GALLANT RESISTANCE. United Press Association. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Petrograd, March 25. ,o'ssowic is gallantly resisting. After a month's siege, the forts are unhurt, and the infantry is undislodgedp from the field fortifications. In the fortress the men are safe under concrete cupolas.

SUFFERINGS AT PRZEMYSL. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Petrograd, March 25. At Przemysl there was-- originally 150,000 of a garrison. On March 14th it was only 126,000; There had been no epidemics, though 20 per cent of the garrison and inhabitants were scorbutic.