Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 28, 1 October 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

NEARLY ANNIHILATED. GERMANS PANIC-STRICKEN. RUSSIANS' GUERILLA WARFARE 1 United Press Association. ' c (Received 8.15 a.m.) U Petrograd, September 30. Ij Ail infantry regiment suddenly at- t tacked the Russian positions in the t Ackau district, and despite murderous t machine-gun fire, they advanced rapid- r ly. The Russians sent forward three , armoured motors, against which the , German bullets were powerless. The regiment was practically annihilated. A small force of guerillas, consisting of peasantry, whose homes had been burnt, surrounded a German col- ; umn in the Pinsk marshes. The Ger- '. mans fled in panic and the column disappeared in the. morass. GERMANS ON THE DEFENCE Amsterdam, September 30. Heir Moraht, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, points out the serious situation of General Mackensen's army. The Austro-German front in J Eastern Galicia northwest of Volhynia, is limited for the moment to defence. General von Hindenburg's attack southwest of Dvinsk has reached Swenten Lakes. Our cavalry, after effectively supporting General von Eichhor, quitted the region of Wilizca. THE AUSTRIAN ARMIES. London, September 30. A telegram from Vienna announces the enrolment of all Austrians aged eighteen years in October, and those of from forty-three to fifty years in November. A German correspondent with the Austrians reports that the armies have abandoned the offensive in the Volhynia triangle, in order to resist General Ivanoff's tremendous coun-ter-offensive, which is designed to penetrate the Austro-Hungarian positions at Volhynia and Brody.