Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, 6 May 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

■ENEMY’S DENIAL OF RUSSIAN SUCCESS. • 1; . I , United JPbem Association. Copenhagen, May 5. The "latest tie man and Austrian advices from Galicia report the -.Russian retreat and declare the Austrians and Germans broke the foremost lines of the southern front,'but only succeeded in one locality on the northern front, reaching the other side of the Dunajetze. MISCELLANEOUS. London, May 5. ■A message from Ungvar (in Hungary) dated May 3 says the Russians on Sunday occupied at the south of Wyskow several points of the greatest strategical importance. Fiftythousand Austrians and Germans violently attacked the Russians between Kozioye and Wyskow, but the Russians diverted the passing troops and placed eighty thousand in the battle line and almost surrounded the Germans, who retreated, leaving 2500 prisoners. The Russian Minister for War says there is some difficulty in accommodating the enormous number of prisoners. Hundreds of trainloads of prisoners are slowly proceeding to the frontier of Servia, where already there are six hundred thousand. Many of the enemy are giving themselves np to avoid starvation. Petrograd, May 5. Official: Our fire prevented the enemy after reaching the right bank of the Dunajetz from advancing further. Fighting a( Tunesow is des- ! perate. The Russians took hundreds of prisoners. One TTTTT .near Golovetzko changed hands three times, and remains in our hands. We captured twelve hundred prisoners, including five officers. ? The bombarded tbe fortifications on tbe right flank of the Chata-J lantja position ami Fort Karuhurnu on the seashore.