Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

RUSSIAN. SUCCESSES. AUSTRIANS RETREAT; AFTER, TREMBQVLA. , | Vl . Unitea,Pbwss Awpiaxton. ,-.....11 ~ Petrograd,. September,.JLL, Official :'■ i'Jjgfti; : TremlH>vla> .thq.Ans-i. trians have W" forced tp precipitate-,. ly retreat, j , tSfa'jfiave 1 paptpred another five tjipiisartd, i Official: Tliere ; werericoutinued sWr, peases in the- Tirembo.\|a and Tchprtkoff sectors oh Thursdif-Y Wl we took li,ve" thousand! < pris.over,s.>, Our troops are v advancing on the left bank of the Dwina, fighting as they go. The enemy, supported hy strong artillery, developed a series of attacks, in the direction of Skidee and the lower Zelvianka, but we repulsed the attacks. The Germans renewed their offensive, accompanied by a severe fire of heavy. {indiligl)t,artsllery, and our batteriesi Againr,rppellod ,thei ( .;at%, tacks. The Gerroafis greatly; in.creased their fire;, ~ancl,a"enesved t,heiri at- : tempt to pierpej ouru.front,, but/ our ' repulsed, thew. for the third i*iU»fl< »We, impulsed atr,: tacks near Rogangoby v -?l«so, range ; .,{u;e and bayonet .tfhjarges,.! the (fiicmy then drove a largfvv, number of .inhabitants forward, und,fltj cover of , whom they approached nearer,our positions. The enemy bombavd e 4; :<W trpops at Krez•nete with, asphyxiating shells. The ~Austrians, after their losses at Trembovla and Tchorkoff, retreated precipitately. In general, our armies are calmly confident in themselves. The initiative of these isolated engagements is gradually passing into our hands. Amsterdam, September 10. An Austrian communique states that there is violent fighting westward of the middle of the Sereth. where the Russians were' reinforced. Paris, September 11. French papers comment on the battles at Trembovla, and point out with enthusiasm the development of the operations which Drought about the Russians' success as showing the magnificent resources in. morale and material which the Russian army preserves after a retreat conducted in i such good order.

An Austri.in, e.pmmivir.H.e says:— Deuakrio, on the Goryu, is in our hands. Strong Russian forces near Tarnopol attempted to enter the Aus-tro-German positions, but were repulsed with heavy losses. Further south we withdrew our Sereth front to the heights eastward of before superior forces. Heavy fighting ib proceeding on the heights westward of the lower Sereth.- -We stubbornly defended village of Alba, westward of Koszow. Geneva; September 12. . The Russian offensive on the Sereth has reached the Lemberg-I)ubuo railway, where the Austro-Germatis are vainly resisting the advance. STRENGTH OF THE ENEMY. •London, September 12. Renter's correspondent at Petrograd says there are 2£ million AustroGermans On the Russian front, twen-ty-eight German corps in the Baltic and Lithuania, twenty Austro-Ger-

man corps in the Pripet region, twelve German corps, ( a,nd thirty Austrian corps in Galjcia,,,, including eleven Austrian and nine German cavalry divisions. The Germans, are feverishly restoring Kovnb. Two forts have been reconstructed on^Jihe. 'eastern, side,, with two continuous of. concreted trenches between the, .iupev. «unl .outou, forts.lV! Guns of the heaviest calibre 'are being' •]'» HU C r{f\ . HGERMAU BRUTAUT-Y-. TQ; THE-. fc ! >. <* 'WOUNDED. , 'I,- ,:,- | i 1.. , . hill vl |]| • '.>•>'* • i London, "September l If). - • A'member of the British' Red CrV>ss, by courtesy of the-Russian and ,Swe'dish■ 'authorities,'' wilh'essed the exchange of Russian and German wounded prisoners The former were sent to Stockholm in barges in the care of the Swedish Red Cross, and thence l transported to Tornea. It was difficult to find words to express the dreadfuluess of the home-coming of ■ the 'poor' "Russians, who had hardly the Semblance, of, i hjimau,.bein,gs, .They,, 'Wt -the'-' bargejs,. ,l>en.t, p,dazed, ~ audi ; 1 impingI.'' 1 .'' j .JJyery .man hi rags,, few ? had'Coats, and many were without 1 ilrifis or socks, and had only di- ' lapidated ' boots, ,Cr,ipples, were . sup 7 . 1 ported by-crutches made,from,,the 'lids of -■•'packing' cases.: , Alii were emaciated to ' the last jdegree, t and .some had lost tiheir'frits''and memory. Nothing but continued and long-sustained neglect could have; reduced them to such a condition. . ... The contrast with the German prisoners was indescribable. All >. ere in full uniform, with good boots apd proper crutches. They were in good spirits and laughed and joked. The sights convinced the onlookers that the Germans are waging the war like a half-civilised people. Only the German authorities probably will ever know, how many thousands of the enemy wounded have died of the treatment which has 1 produced such human wreckage. GERMAN) PROGRESS REPORT. ■ k . _. 1 ' j Berlin, September 11. A communique -says: General Hin- | denberg. south-east of Friedrichstadt Land east ofWilkomirz, took 1050 I prisoners. The enemy is still offering an obstinate resistance between .Tesiori and Zelwa,making counter-attacks. Strong forces attempted to arrest our advance ati Skidel, which could only be taken finally during the night, after fighting with alternating success. We took 2700 prisoners in this region. Prince Leopold, fighting with unabated violence, ; forced a crossing of the ! Zelwianka at some points. Fighting For the railway station at Kossow is proceeding. General von Bothmer repulsed severe counter-attacks, capturing three hundred,prisoners. ' in iinnii i.i «.■■■ »■■■■ i iiiiii —— mmm —

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BURNT AND DEVASTATED I COUNTRY. GERMAN COMMISARIAT DIFFICULTIES. (Received 8.15 a.m.) London, September 12. The Observer's correspondent at Petrograd says that the Germans w advancing through country burnt and devastated by the retreating Russian army and the population. Refugees move eastward in whole parishes headed by the priests. Sometimes the enemy patrols overtake the refugees, capture the priests, beat the meu and carry off the young women. The Germans, instead of finding food in the conquered territory, are obliged to draw nearly the whole from Germany. The only aid rendered by the Russians is to steadily reduce the number (if Germans who must be fed, clothed and transported. The main result of the invasion has been to stimulate Russian organisation and power to an unprecendented degree. Organisation is no longer left To tbe Government and every mm ami woman is thinking about organisation, especially of munitions. AERIAL ACTIVITY IN BALTIC. ._ GERMANS VIdORGDS OFFENSIVE AT DVINSK. ALL ATTACKS EASILY REPULSED. RUSSIANS' SUCCESS AT SKIDEL. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Petrogra'd, September 12. A communique states: A Zeppelin flew over and threw bombs on the Baltic ports. Our seaplanes bombed the German ships at Windau. A series of German attacks in the direction of Dvinsk were repulsed. A German aeroplane bombarding a hospital train near Ponemonnek was brought down between Smenta and Vilna.

Strong forces of the enemy opened a vigorous offensive eastward of Wilkomir. The enemy advancing along the Dvinsk Road and the neighboring roads, directing their principal effort with the assistance of strong field and. siege,artillery southward of Dvinsk Hoad. ; i Simultaneously large forces of the enemy advanced in the region of Chirvinty. their general direction behigOflom Wilkomir ..towards"" Svientbiany. . ~ We repulsed repeated attacks on the ,Qaery-Skidel front. Skidel passed fji'om hfinu to hand until finally, after |i .I'lrilliaM'tiKMnHlt. by-one of our. battalions, it remained in our hands. .On r. cavalry',] aided by infantry •which: dislodged the Germans from their trenches southward of Skidel, eagerly pursued the enemy. In a desperate fight on the river Zelvianka, southward of the Niemen. a German battery was entirely destroyed. We thereafter stopped attacks' and near Zelvaj despite asphyxiating gases repelled a series of assaults and innintfdped pur | positions! on, bapk; of . ,bhe, Zelvianka after completely cleaning, enemy, from the whole of this bank. , , , ( , ~ ~,,,(,,.; , <[ ,„('.■ < CURIOUS CONFIRMATION. Ujf ■'■ 1 ,i; | ,■,,». f\\ fl ■- , , GERMAN "DENIAL" OF DEFEAT. (Received 10.25 a.m.) ; London, September 12$ A French official wireless message points out, that the Wolff Agency at four o'clock in the afternoon on the <Sth denied the official Petrograd statement announcing the defeat of two German divisions. But the Russian 'statement was not issued until eleven o'clock, in the evening. This premature denial really informed Europe of the Russian success eight hours sooner. THE AUSTRIAN ROUT AT TARNOPOL. RUSSIAN MOTOR QUICK-FIRERS. ENEMY STRIVING FOR DECISIVE BLOW. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Petrograd, September 12. The Russian communique continues: We held up the. enemy in the direction of Rozhany and Kovno. The Austrian attacks were resumed on both banks of the Goryn. We held up the enemy on the right hank despite poisonous gases. Several detachments were destroyed by our tire. We broke the enemy's obstinate' opposition in the Tarnopol region on Saturday. Prisoners state that the newly-fornied Sixth battalion of Chasseurs were entirely destroyed. The enemy lied, leaving thirty-nine officers and twenty-nine hundred men in our hands. Our company of motor quick-, firers actively helped us and the enemy retreated towards the Dniester. We repelled furious attacks southwards of Tarnopol and expelled the enemy from Tioust, capturing eight hundred. ' The enemy's submarines are reported to be ofi' the Crimean Coast. Summing up the situation, it 'nay be said that the entire Anstro-Ger-man forces from one side to the other are striving for a decisive blow.