THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 111, 13 January 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Tue High Commissioner reports, unier date London, 11th January, 191-3, 1.35 p.m.: —Petrograd reports that on the left bank of the Vistula on the 10th the Germans were everywhere repulsed. The Russian losses \\ere slight. East of Skierniewice, the Germans reached the Russian wipe entanglements, but were repulsed with heavy loss by a murderous fire. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. GERMAN ATTACKS AGAIN FAIL. PETROGRAD, Jan. 12. (Official).— The Germans on the 10th attacked several points on the left bank 0 f the Vistula unsuccessfully. At villages east of Skierniewice the) reached the entanglements and tried to dupe ifs by calling “Don’t fire on your own men.” We poured in a murlerous fire, and then counter-attacked. They were driven off with heavy loss. We are cannonading the German positions in Galicia. A WEEK OF BUTCHERY. GERMANS MAKE NO HEADWAY. PETROGRAD, Jaan. 12. During the past week the German -Tensive has been confined to a zone ■en miles wide, thirty miles fi’o m Warsaw. Two army corps were engaged, one in the trenches and the Hher in reserve. The Germans are •training every nerve to gain the Rolimow woods, where fighting is •erce and positions are frequently hanging hands. ■*’

Despite enormous sacrifices of men ■mi unceasing bombardment, the Germans have failed to make headway, "hirteen consecutive attacks were repulsed in one night. After the tenth -ft-’ok, the bodies were piled so high "hat the Hussion riflemen were unable "o shoot. A partv was sent out and arranged the 'heaps of bodies in f he form .c-f embrasures for machine-guns. The three next attacks were repulsed from behind the shelter of the eneny’s bodies. BRITISH OFFICERS. PRISONERS SUBJECT TO GROSSEST INSULTS. (Reed. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 12. Major C. B. Yandelur, of the Cameronians, and who escaped from the prisoners’ camp in Germany, states that while not complaining about food or accommodation, British officers were subjected to the grossest insults and humiliations at the hands of their captors. • ITALIAN WARSHIPS. IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Jan. 12. Messages from Rome state that; five Italian warships and a flotilla of destroyers, under Admiral Cagni, loft Taranto on Saturday evening, under sealed orders, an hour after the ultimatum to Turkey expired. It is unofficially stated the object of the expedition is to enforce satisfaction for the-Hodeida incident.