Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 81, 31 August 1914, Page 5

Russian Campaign

I / *M [ BATTLES PROCEEDING. -f : • ' /;•*=}) OVER 200-MILE FRONT. "', ' iiM Received 30, 5.5 p.m. " ■ St. Petersburg, August 2D. ' - Battles are proceeding between Lem-: berg and the Vistula, over a front ot 300 kilometres (about 200 miles). KOENIGSBURG INVESTED. f ALSATIAN ARMIES PAR FROM HOME.

Deceived 30, 5.5 p.m.

Paris, August 28 (evening).' Official news is to the effect that Koenigsburg is completely invested.

St. Petersburg, August 29. / The Russians, when approaching Koea-; igsberg, dislodged the garrison outposts, and also occupied Alleustein, a town; 65 miles to the southward on the rive* Alle.

The Alsatian army, under Grand Dukd Frederick of Baden, is reinforcing the Germans in East Prussia.

GERMANY ALARMED. \

TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM 1 BELGIUM.

SENT EASTWARD IN HOT HASTE.

Received 30,'f1.a p.m. Antwerp, August 29. One hundred and sixty trains, travel ling north-eastward on Friday night, withdrew from the Meuse one army corps, with full equipment, to meet tliß Russian advance. ■■

The Prussian and German" troops around Brussels have been reduced to fkg safest minimum. As many as possible have been .withdrawn from the city.

The Germans commandeered peasants •■) dig trenehea along the Mous road to >revent the approach of cavalry.

£ GALLANT, OFFICER,

SEIZURE OF GERMAN GUNS. '

Received 30, 5.5 p.m. -St. Petersburg, August 2<>. iPrincc Cristoff. colonel in the Horse Artillery, has been decorated for ordering men to hitch off their own guns and gallop after the German guns, several of which were captured and brought back by the Russian troops under heavy fire. '

A ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN

Received 30, 5.5 p.m. SI, 'Petersburg, August 20. Russians shot and brought down a German Zeppelin, which was bombarding a railway station at Calava, on the. Polish frontier.. Tho Zeppelin contained eight soldiers and two quickfirers, with explosives. ■ i i DESTROYED BY MINES. Received 8 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 2!t. A local passenger steamer was destroyed by a mine at Otclmkoff. The bulk of her people were rescued, but 51 passengers were drowned. THE MARCH ON DANZIG. RUSSIA MAKES' GOOD (PROGRESS." St. Petersburg, August 28. The Russians occupied Tilsit and secured many spoils. >The garrison and inhabitants fled. Reports from Romtf stale that the Russians are marching on Danzig.

THE ADVANCE INTO AUSTRIA. MORE BRUTALITIES. St. Petersburg, August 2S. The Russians are nearing Lemberg. Belgrade, August 29. In consequence of the atrocities committed on old women and children during the Austrians' retreat, Scrvia -has notified that she will make all possible reprisals within the limits of the laws of modern warfare.