RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN VANGUARD BEATEN BACK. RUSSIANS CAPTURE POSITIONS. AUSTRIANS STILL)RETREATING. Received 27, 5.20 p.m. Petrograd, September 20. Official. —Russians repulsed tlie German vanguards at Suwalki on Wednesday, and were also successful at Louiza, There lias been no important fighting in West Galicia. Th« Austrians continue their retreat from Khyrow.

AUSTRIANS RETIRE ON CRACOW. RUSSIANS OCCUPY TURKA. Received 28, 1.33 a.m. Petrograd, September 27. Official.—-The Austrians have fallea back to the west, largely utilising the railways, to Cracow. The Russians have occupied Turka.

FURTHER CAPTURES. AUSTRIANS A RABBLE. < HUNDREDS CAPTURED. Tctrograd, September 25. Prior to the capture, of Jarotilav the Austrian tranches were filled with wounded and dead, who had been lying there for days.. Prisoners had been foodless for four days. The Austrian troops in retreat are almost a rabble, and have hardly any officers left in many rcgi-, rnents. The Rusisans are in hot pursuit and capturing hundreds. Razky lias occupied two stations on the Cracow lino, while Brusilov lias captured St.aremiasto, on the line to Budapest. Official.—On the South-western front the Russians have taken the fortified positions of Tchisliki (iulsteein, covering Khyrow, also Wndymo, south-east of Jaroslav, which contained heavy artillery.