Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

REGULAR BOMBARDMENT.

OSSOWIC UNDER FIRE FOR 34 DAYS. I ! (Received 9.5 a.m.) i Potrograd, March 28. I Ossowiec has. been bombarded continuously for thirty-four days by tlie enemy. Everywhere the operations are being conducted to time table. At nine o’clock in the morning a rocket warns the Red Cross and civilians, then the siege guns open; but they cease punctually at six o’clock, and "life above ground is resumed. Military bands play at regular hours on Sunday evenings.

EAST PRUSSIAN RUSSIAN RAID DEFEATED. United Peess Association. Amsterdam, March 27. A German official message states that tlte Russians attempting a raid on Tilsit were defeated with heavy loss.

(Tilsit, a town in East Prussia, on the left bank of the Memel.)

MISCELLANEOUS.

Petrograd, March 28

Official. —We considerably progressed in. the direction of Bartfeld, the Austrians, when falling back, burning the village of Bori, westward of Dukla Pass. We carried af fortified height eastward of Ravorwetz, near Baligorod, and repulsed large forces near Konziwka, taking 2500 Austrian prisoners, besides forty officers. The Austrians are fighting with surprising stubbornness in the Carpathians, contesting every yard, and using every expedient. The woods are filled with barbed wire and wolf traps, and machine-guns are concealed on the summits of steep ravines.

The crack German 21st Corps in East Prussia now largely consists of raw troops, many ignorant of the use of arms, and more dangerous to them, selves than to the enemy.

Przemysl was provisioned for forty thousand, but a hundred thousand of the retreating army were shut up in the fortress, and unable to escape. Thus the stocks were exhausted. After the Russian artillery on March 21 had razed the inner fortifications of Przemysl, the garrisons asked General Kusmanek for instructions. He replied: “Die at your post!” New guns were hurriedly placed on the ruined forts, but these were quickly destroyed by the accurate Russian fire. In the evening the Russians gained the first line of the fortifications. The searchlights were not used, everything being plainly visible itl the crimson glow of the burning fortress. The , inner forts still resisted, despite the fact that the ground was shaken’ 1 every few minutes by the explosion of magazines. By dawn the Russians had penetrated the inner line of forts, and General Kusmanek ordered the blowing up of the remainder. At five o’clock the Russians swarmed towards the fortress, and the white flag was bolster.

Loudon, 'March 27

■ The Morning Post’s Budapesth correspondent says that 120 men of wealth and position have been arrested for supplying the army with bad food and paper-soled boots, charging 14s a yard for ladies’ cloth material (worth 3s a yard) for uniforms, which went to rags in a fortnight. Press and people are demanding the death sentence.

Reuter’s Vienna correspondent states that trains full of Bavarians are continually traversing Hungary for the Carpathians, and almost equal numbers of returning wounded Austrians and Germans.

The Hague, March 28

Germans in Poland carry metal knapsacks, containing inflammable liquid. Twenty Russians were burned alive in one night. 1 Vienna, March 28.

Official: After a violent engagecut north-east of Czernowitz we drove back superior forces, capturing a thousand prisoners and two guns.