RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 24 September 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ANOTHER WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER,

RUSSIAN'S OCCUPY JAROSLAV.

Received 24, 1.50 a.m. Petrograd, September 23. The Russians occupied Jaroslav. It is announced that the 60th Hungarian Regiment was completely decimated, only three officers and 20 men regaining their base.

THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA.

GERMAN WINGS MUST BE CLIPPED. RUSSIA REQUIRES NO NEW TERRITORY. GRAND DUCHESS AS RED CROSS NURSE. Times and Sydney S'tn Services. London, September 22. The Petrograd Press says that Rus3ia is in no mood to accept a settlement which does not guarantee the future inability of Germany to disturb the peace of Europe. The guarantee must enable Belgium independently to defend her integrity against Germany. Russia does not require German territory. The Grand Duchess Olga, sister of the Czar, joined the Red Cross, concealing hei identity. An officer recognising her requested to kiss her band. The Grand Duchess placed her finger on his lips and commanded him to address her simply as sister.

ODDS FOUR TO ONE.

AND STILL RUSSIA PREVAILS.

AUSTRIANS' RAPID FLIGHT.

Petrograd, September 22,

The 'Austrian retreat in Galicia was 60 rapid that the Russians had to cover 25 miles a day to keep in touch. The Austrians turned back at one point on tho San, and the Russians, throwing three pontoons over the river, dashed across, and a fierce hand-to-hand struggle ensued. The horses of the cavalry were shot down and the men's legs shattered by the continued fire as they lay on the ground. At length bayonet charges put the Austrians to flight.

Genvral DiraitricfJ was decorated for his brilliant and successful resistance to tho Austrians, who attempted to recapture Lemberg. He was four days and nights fighting against odds of four to one.

THE ADVANCE ON CRACOW. RUSSIA MEETS LITTLE OPPOSITION. Petrograd, September 22. The Austrian armies in Galicia are confined within the quadrilateral Ryoszoff, Jaroslav, Dy»off, and Przemysl. The Russians continue to advance on Cracow, without serious check. Poles enrolled for the defence of Cracow refuse to undertake the duty, preferring to surrender to the Russians. AUSTRIA CRIPPLED TILL THE SPRING. Rome, September 22. A telegram from Petrograd states that the pursuit of the broken Austrian army and the fresh defeat inflicted duri»g the retreat convince the Russian headquarters that Austria will be unable to resume the offensive in Galicia until next spring.

OUTRAGES DENIED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.40 p.m. IVtrograd, -September 22. An official report denies the allegations of the burning of German villages and the shooting of the inhabitants, in exceptional cases, where the veterans fired on the Russians, just reprisals were ordered.

WOMEN AMONG WAR PRISONERS. AGED CUNNERESS ON A BELFRY. Received 23, 5.40 p.m. Petrograd, September 22. There were many women among the prisoners captured during the fighting on the Eaßt Prussian frontier. Cossacks seized over a hundred at Willenburg. One woman of 70, maddened by the- loss of her Rons and grandsons, climbed the belfry of a church and fired on tho Russians with a machine-gun, wounding 15 before She was capture:!.

EIRE-EATING- NEWSPAPER. Received 24, 1.50 a.m. Petrograd, September 22. The Novoe Vremya reproaches British statesmen with not insisting on the complete crushing of Germany, an'd adds: "It is necessary that Europe shall burn out the Prussian cancer with red-hot irons." TIME BRINGS ITS CHANGES. JAPANESE ASSIST RUSSIAN EQUIPMENT. Received 24, 1.50 a.m. Petrograd, September 23. Japan has presented £2OOO worth of surgical instruments to Russia. During the past 20 years Germany has established 46 companies engaged in electro-metallurgical and mining works in Russia, with n capital of nine millions sterling, wMch it is now hoped will be supplanted by Britishers.