CZAR'S ARMIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5

CZAR'S ARMIES.

SMART RUSSIAN WORK.

GERMAN ENVELOPING MOVE

FOILED. RUSSIANS CARRY THE TRENCHES. Received 21, 9.20 p.m. London, September 20. Tile Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent describes General Rennenkampff's rushing a brigade forward by a night march as spoiling the German preparations to envelope his left flank. The Russians, under a tremendous artillery and rifle fire, repeatedly drove back the Germans. They eventually carried the trenches, which were filled with corpses. They next captured the town, in which the stone liouscs luid been converted into miniature fortresses, surrounded by deep trenches and wire entanglements. Each had to bo taken separately.

A collection of handsome coffins was found for the use of officers.

The Germans did not suspect the ridiculous inferiority ol the Russians, whose success enabled General Rennenkampff to carry out the defensive movement recently concluded.

GERMANS INVADE RUSSIA. EASTERN PRUSSIAN FRONTIER OPERATIONS. Petrograd, September 20. Operations on the East Prussian front are now completely on Russian territory, where the Germans are unable to utilise the railways, owing to the different gauge.

RUSSIA CLAIMS VICTORIES. AUSTRIAN REARGUARD DRIVEN BACK. Petrograd, September 20. It is officially stated that General Rennenhampff has compelled the Germans to retreat at several points in East Prussia.

The Russians captured 36 howitzers sent to attack Ivangorod (Poland). A German army corps under General von Tretba was again completely defeated near Sandonierz. Only the remnants remain in Galicia.

The Russians have occupied the fortifications of Siniawa and Sapibor. The Austrian rearguard has been driven out of Vischtia across the San. The Russians burnt at Taroslav, which the Altaians captured, three thousand ammunition waggons. They also took as prisoners three thousand men and tea guns in the Sandomie and Rabomyiil region. Rome, September 20. A Petrograd message states that the Russians completely cut off General Denkyl'a army, which • forced the extreme left from Przemysl to Cracow, preventing a junction with General Huffenburg. General Denkyl made a desperate attempt to reach Cracow. The Russians advanced from Sandonierz and cut off his retreat.

A mob at Innspruck raided shops displaying the portraits of the Commander-in-Chief and prominent war promoters and burnt them in the street, amid cries of. ''Down with Austria!"

:iOW GERMANY CAUSED THE WAR,

London, September 20. A Russian official report states that the negotiations preceding the war distinctly show that the despatches of Germany forced the campaign at a stage when Austria was yielding to pacific influences.

HEAVY CASUALTIES,

GUNNERY MAKES A DIFFERENCE,

Received 21, 8.15 p.m. Petrograd, September 20.

It is estimated that the total Austrian casualties in Galicia amount to thirkyfivo per cent, of the million engaged. The Russian casualties amount to 25,000. This great disparity is attributed to tk# superiority of the gunnery.

EFFECT OF LOW FIRING.

LEGS AND ARMS SUFFER,

Received 21, 5.35 p.m

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Petrograd, September 20. Eighty per cent, of the Russian wounded are wounded in tlio legs and arms. The dangerously wounded only average one per cent.