Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 68, 19 November 1915, Page 5

Russia.

PRIEST'S WONDERFUL HEROISM. TORTURED TO DEATH BY AUSTRIANS. Times and Sydney Sun Seuvice. j (deceived 8.55 a.m.) Petrograd, November 18. The commander of the llussiau division on the Austrian front has re[commended the pensioning of the widow of Priest Veremchuk and the enohlement of the children in recognition of Veremchuk’s wonderful heroism. When a scouting party was about to he ambushed, Yeremchuk sailed them across the river in his own boat under heavy lire. He was shot in the hip when returning after landing the soldiers and was so weak through loss of blood that he lost control of the rudder and drifted downstream, where he fell into the Austrians* hands. Peasants heard his cries, and. next day they found him with his head battered and his mouth filled with clay, the body being covered with gashes, his collarbone broken, and the knee tendons cut. There was evidence that he had been tortured, U nd his body was riddled with bullets.

ENEMY ATTACKS REPELLED. Petrograd, November IS. A communique states : The enemy s attempts to cross the Dvina at several points below Dvin.sk were frustrated. The Germans have been compelled to evacuate some trenches at Lake s Venten, and an attempted approach to the river near Chartorysk was repelled. “A TERRIBLY STRONG ENEMY.” v London, November 18. The Times’ Petrograd correspondent says: Despite recent successes we are still confronted with a terribly strong enemy, who has dug his claws into every, yard of earth, and is far from being crushed,, thanks to his supeib technical equipment.