Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

GERMAN BATTERING-RAM. HOW RUSSIA STOOD HER ' GROUND. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS ON TOP XJtOTWO PrFRH AhBOOTMIOW. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Petrograd, May 30. Official; The enemy’s prodigious efforts of the last few days were made to encircle Przemysl. The enemy on the San began to change front on May 20th constructing fifteen bridges. General Mackensen on March 24th hurled his armies between the rivers LinuitaIchevka and San, and simultaneously the enemy’s left flank, with hundreds of thousand of infantry and thousands of guns, attempted to turn over the left bank of the San on a fifteen-mile front in the direction of Radoma and Drogotcber. The Austro-German armies, which should have aided General Mackensen in the turn for Przemysl from the south were decimated near Gussakow, while General Rimanof (a hero of Port Arthur) crushed the German garrison at Llabisseco, behind Mackensen. General Mackensen is repeating, on a much larger scale, the manoeuvre at Lodz in November, but at present the manoeuvre is incomplete. Though some enemy infantry regiments have lost three-quarters of their strength it is premature to speak yet us to the result, despite favorable signs. An observer from Petrograd says the Grand Duke Nicholas has again proved his superiority in strategy over the German battering ram. The enemy became immobilised and for a week was heavily hammered. The Germans then attempted tactical manoeuvres, but the development was slow owing to the distance from the railways. It is impossible to repair the battering-ram’s failure. THE CAUCASIAN CAMPAIGN RUSSIANS CAPTURE 29 GUNS. The High Commissioner reports from London under date the 20th inst. (6.5 p.ra.) : A communique from the Caucasian headquarters reports that the Russians made progress, 2D guns being captured. RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. Petrograd, May 29. Official: We captured the stronghold of Hubie, near Shavli, taking upwards of a thousand prisoners. We assumed the offensive north-west and eastward of Seniawa, inflicting heavy losses. We captured fortifications on the Pigany front, the third Cancasin Corps taking 6000 prisoners, six heavy guns and six field-guns. Tim Caucasian Corps Inter carried Seniawa by assault, making prisoners of a thousand and taking five guns. Nevertheless, the enemy, owing to considerable superiority of artillery, gained ground on both banks of the San, southward and eastward of Radymno. The enemy, after several days of furious fighting, captured fresh trendies eastward of Guisakow, but they are being gradually dislodged between tlie marshes of the Dneister and Dodina. RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. Tlie High Commissioner reports from London under date May 29th (1.3(1 a.m.):— in the Shavli region the Russians captured a strongly fortified position

at Gable, taking 1000 prisoners. In Galicia the' fighting on the San continues to be intense. On Thursday night the Russians inflicted heavy losses north and east of Siloniawa, and on Friday captured the fortifications on the Pegary front, where the Third Causasians took 6000 Germans and Austrians and six heavy and six field guns.- South and east of Radymno the enemy’s superiority in artillery gained ground on both banks of the San. East of Hussankow, near Zlotkowice, after several days’ furious fighting, the enemy captured fresh trenches between the Dneister and the great marshes of the Dolma. The enemy’s iesolute attack was repulsed nearly everywhere by counter-attacks. Ihe Third Caucasians carried Sieniawa by assault, taking 1000 prisoners and five guns.