Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 7 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL.

necessity for munitions

United Puepb Akwooiatio* London, June 6

Petrograd reports that the fall of Przemysl emphasises the necessity f°r a greater supply 'of munitions and equipment, which the Russian industries are unable to provide sihgle-hand->d. Hence Russia must assume the lefeusive till these arrive, holding the enemy’s forces on the Russian, front. The fall of Przeraysl has been received with wonderful stoicism by all classes, and is regarded as a mere episode in a great and complicated struggle . The loss is considered temporary. Experts declare that sound generalship could not risk a large Russian force being cut off in the fortress, especially as the ever-increasing concentration of Austrians and Germans towards Stryj shows a determination to force a way to Lemberg at all costs. REJOICINGS' IN GERMANY. Amsterdam, June 5. There are great rejoicings in Berlin uul Vienna over the re-occupation of Przemysl. It is noteworthy that the event was promptly followed by the strict closing of the Belgian frontiers, i step usually presaging a groat movement of German troops. Petrograd correspondents point out that Germany hopes to re-transfer large forces to Flanders if she Ls able to push the llnssianas hack sufficiently to render the movement s'afm /

German airships dropped asphyxiating gas bombs on the Bzlraa-Rawka frontier.

A Germafi official report says: After fighting we reachaed the villages at Przemysl. The booty has not yet been surveyed. General von Marwitz stormed the heights on both sides of Mystatvcze and Linsingen, and is about to cross the lower Stryj, north-eastward of the town of Stryj.

RUSSIANS’ DESPERATE RESISTANCE. Amsterdam, June 4. A correspondent of the Berlin paper, the Lokal Anzeiger, in Galicia, telegraphing on Wednesday, said the greatest importance attaches to the events on tile Dneister, north of Stryj. The enemy are still holding out tenaciously north-east of the Sambor, where there are sevenfold lines of defences. There is an equally desperate resistance against part of Generl Mackensen’s force moving eastwrd from Radymo. Tire Russians are similarly pushing forward from the Wstula-San corner, hoping to influence the battle in the middle of Galatia

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Petrograd, June 4. A chaplain narrates that many German regiments took no prisoners and bayonetted both the wounded and the doctors attending them. On one occasion they entered a burning wood, whence a Russian battalion had retired all surrounded by flames. On another occasion German cavalry, capturing a Russian company, took them into a space, where the u[hole regiment held a competition, cutting them down and butchering them to the last man. German airmen threw bombs on children gathered around a road Ikon, and many were killed. Austrians often vainly protested at German barbarities. The chaplain adds that German patrols in several villages in the Pratzk districts took every hundredth inhabitant from his house, and threatened to shoot them unless the inmates delivered all their provisions, to the last loaf. London, June 6. The Cologne Gazette says the Kaiser arrived at the Austrian headquarters on the 4th inst. to congratulate the Archduke Frederick on the capture of I’rzemysl. Amsterdam, June 6. German military authorities estimate the war, will last another year.