THE EASTERN THEATRE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 71, 23 November 1914, Page 5

THE EASTERN THEATRE

A GERMAN DEFEAT. DESPERATE FIGHT IN RIVER BED. A FEARFUL AFFAIR. GERMAN FORCES DRIVEN BACK. THREE THOUSAND DEAD AND WOUNDED ABANDONED. • RUSSIAN PRESSURE CONTINUES. PETROGRAD, Nov. 21. Germans have reached Pronisk, eastward of Bzura. They fought their way desperately across the river bed, which was filled with barbed wire. Many were entangled, and drowned under maddened horses' hoofs. While Prussian --infantry ' were entrenching.', hear' Gostyniui,, 1400 Russians charged into their midst. The masses were so dense that' it was impossible at times to use the bayonet and the men fought with their fists. The Prussians were threefold the Russian strength. The Russians gradually withdrew. The Russians were definitely successful southward of Czestochowa. All the foremost German foreees were driven back and compelled to act on the defensive in their old positions. During the Germans' last effort to pierce.the Russian line northward of Kutno a German cavalry division came under the cross fire of Russian infantry entrenched with a strong support of machine-guns. The Germans abandoned 11000 dead and woulded. The vanguard of their advance retired, on the main body, which is now spreading itself among defensive positions round Ledz. The Russian pressure continues. THE LAST DAYS OF CRACOW. CIVIL POPULATION EXPELLED. 50,000 POLES IN FLIGHT. ROME, November 22. The military governor of Cracow has expelled the' civilian population. Fifty thousand Poles have fled in all directions. AUSTRO-GERMANS REPULSED WITH ENORMOUS LOSS. RUSSIANS CONTINUE ADVANCE. (Received, Nov. 2Y>. .12. 5 a. m. PETROGRAD, Nov. 21. (Official). Austro-Germans from Czestosojo to Cracow took a violent offensive with the intention of helping the centre army. The Russians repulsed the offensive and drove them back, inflicting enormous losses and taking many prisioners. There have been many violent actions at Cracow but the Russians continue the advance.