Eastern News
AUSTRIAN PRISONERS IN RUSSIAN HANDS, 500,009. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (K eceived 8.0 a.m.) London, April 29. The number of Austrian prisoners taken by the Russians is officially estimated at five hundred thousand. EAST PRUSSIAN OPERATIONS. Petrograd, April 29. It is reported that General von Hindenberg and the Archduke Frederick of Austria quarrelled because the former demanded that the Austrian troops bo sent to East Prussia, when the Archduke Frederick wanted them to relieve Przemysl. They are again quarrelling with reference to Cracow. The Germans declare that Cracow is vital to Germany’s offensive and demand that civilians be removed from certain suburbs and that they be razed for military purposes. The Archduke Frederick resists the measure, fearing a Polish rising. Official; The enemy is intensely active on the Upper Niemen, also on the west of Niemen and north of Narew, west of Mlawa railway.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 5
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147Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 5
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