Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 71, 23 July 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

WARSAW INVESTED.

GERMAN REPORTS OF THE RUS*

SIAN RETREAT

United Press Association

(Received 12.20 p.m.) Amsterdam, July 22

A German communique states: — Our advancing troops north-east /of Shavli captured 4150 prisoners and live machine-guns. An irruption on the lower Dubissa resulted in the attackers entering the district of Grynkiskixi. At Gudsinny several of the enemy positions were stormed. The Russians are retreating on the entire front from Lake Kakiewo to Niemen. We enlarged the breach in the Russian lines south of the Mariampol-Kovno road. We gained further ground eastwards, capturing four officers, 1210 men, and four machine-guns. The enemy on the Narew discontinued their useless counter-attacks. The Russians south of the Vistula were pressed back into an enlarged bridgehead position on the Warsaw, and General Von Woyrschs’s army, by a bold attack, frustrated the enemy’s latest attempt to arrest the retreat before Ivangorod. Our Silesian troops, with the help ol the Austrians, at noon si m ined the great bridgehead positions near Lagow and Imgowawola. The enemy’s entile front was thrown into the fortress, which is now closely invested. Yesterday the Austrians north-west of Invangorod captnnkl three thousand prisoners ''and eleven machine-guns. .General Mackensen’s battle between the Vistula and the ling is proceeding.

RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL. GERMANS’ COLD-BLOODED CRIME. (Received 9.1-3 a.in.) Petrograd. July 22. The grouping of Russian troops on the Vistula, to which the communiques refer, amount, it is understood, to a withdrawal to the left bank between the inflow of the Bzura and Novo Georgjevsk. Only one of the outlying works to the north of Xovo Georgievsk has so lar been in action against the Germans advancing to the Narew. Prisoners of the Sixth Austrian Army Corps captured on the LubliuCJmlrn line state that they saw ' a

lingo common grave at Rawarusska. where five thousand prisoners had I icon buried, after having been shot in cold blood. The crime indicates that Gertnanay is feeling the pinch of the strained means of communication. ENEMY ATROCITIES. • STORIES FROM POLISH VILLAGES. {Received 9.5 a.in.) Paris, July 22. The Niuland correspondent of The Journal states that in a number of Polish villages the Germans compelled the farmers to watch their daughters being outraged by bands of thirty or forty soldiers, who were led by, their officers. Several young girls who escaped drowned themselves, whereon the Germans burned many of the houses. They thrashed and buried alive a priest who interfered. In several places wounded Russians were tortured, being drenched with petrol, shut in the bains, and burnld alive,

FIVE POLISH LADIES HANGED,

(Received 9.5 a.m.)

Paris, July 22.

In Zurich it is reported that five noble Pplish ladies in Vienna were convicted of espionage and hanged by the neck' for a day. The judge 'who presided at the trial was obliged tp sec the sentence carried out’, hut the spectacle was so harrowing that ho collapsed.

RUSSIAN METHODS IN RETREAT

(Received 9.15 a.in.), • Geneva, July 22

The Germans complain that the Russians are employing similar methods to those used against Napoleon in 1812 in destroying all the evacuated villages and the crops during the ictreat.

AN EMPEROR’S DECREE. REGIMENT ERASED FROM ARMY (Received 9.5 a.m.) Paris, July 22, Le Matin stateA that an Army order was found on a German lieutenant in which the Emperor Franz: Josef overwhelmed and ordered the Twent-oighth Regiment Royal Infantry to be erased from the list of the Army for eternity for cowardice and high treason in the face of the. enemy. Those officers and men who remain will have to expiate this grievious fault wit htheir blood. Two battalions of this Boheman regiment surrendered to a Russian battalion at the Dukla Pass in April without using their arms.

THE FIGHT FOR WARSAW.

United Press Association. London. July 22

Intense interest prevails over the latest tiding?) from the Russian front. The newspapers have prepared the publiy for the possible fall of Warsaw. All accounts indicate that a stern struggle and desperate fighting are imminent.

It is noteworthy that German newspapers are restoring the von Hindenburg legend, and pictures of Ins conference with the Kaiser at the castle at Posen are circulating everywhere. General Mackensen is mentioned occasionally, but apparently instructions have been issued that «H credit shall be given to •.“Rather” Hindenburg. OPINION OF THE CRITICS. Petrograd, July 11. .Military critics point out that Grand Duke Nicholas occupies, a position similar to that which Napoleon used on diverse occasions with tremendous effect against stronger foes*. Yesterday’s bulletin suggests that the Grand Duke Nicholas is holding the southern attack until he has dealt with the, northern advance. Having Inner lines and ample railroads, he will be able to throw bis strength against the Germans as he pleases. The Germans continue massing a solid wedge of troops, with a vast assemblage of guns, in Vierprz Valley. Tincapture of Krasnostav has given a useful starting point lor Mackensen’s drive forward, with the object of cutting the Lublin-Cholm railway.

Public opinion in Petrograd is propa red lor any news during the next twenty-four hours. Services for victory were begun on Tuesday evening throughout Russia. CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY. A Potrngra.Tiny 21. , . British. Japanese, and other Allied military officers lunched at Moscow with the Cl rand Duke, who paid a tribute to the splendid spirit of the Russians. All were confident of a final and complete victory.

The Atrocities Commission report that the Germans are using ironnosed shells, weighing ten pounds, filled with prussic acid.

ON THE NAREW FRONT.

Official; The enemy on the Narew front bombarded Ostralenka and attempted to advance to the bridge-head between Rojavy and Pultuck.| We drove them back to the right bank of the Xarow a short distance, and we stopped an offensive in the direction of Lublin, on the Khodel-Piasey front.

A stubborn tight took place on both banks of the Vieprez. near the villages of Snkhodly and Tanwent. until the evening. The enemy were thrown back in some sectors with severe losses. Our. troops harassed detachments which crossed to the right bank of the Rug. near Sokal. and we took one thousand prisoners.

AUSTRIANS CAPTURE 6000.

Official: The enemy now stand south of the Cholin-Lublin-Ivangorod railway. Despite stuborn resistance we penetrated their line at several points. The Archduke Joseph’s army encountered stron but won positions on both banks of the liorzechow, which the Siberians stubbornly defended. We captured six thousand prison-

REPORT FROM BERLIN.

Official: We broke the Russian lino at Dubissa, cast of Rosijeny, tlA‘ enemy falling hack, and we captured three positions south of the Mariam-pol-Rowno road. The Lendwehr’s attacks north .of Invangorod were completely successful, and we took two thousand prisoners. Wo took live hundred prisoners after storming a strong outwork at Roshan. The enemy offered an obstinate resistance, with hastily gathered troops, on the bridge-heads at Roshan, Pultuok, and Novo Georgievsk. The Russian losses were heavy, .and we captured a thousand prisoners.

Under pressure of our troops, who have been reinforced on all sides, tlifi Russians have begun to give up their fortified positions west of Grojec. Von Woyrsch’s troops reached an advance ed bridge-head position soutli of Ivangorod, and lighting continues.