Russian Frontier Battle.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 2 October 1914, Page 5

Russian Frontier Battle.

RUSSIAN FRONTIER BATTLE. GERMAN'S RETREATING HOMEWARD DEFEATED AT EVERY POINT. TWO DIVISIONS ANNIHILATED. GERMAN BARBARITIES AVENGED. Received'2, 12.10 a.m. Petrograd, October 1. Two German divisions in the battle of Druskeniki were annihilated. The fighting on the frontier extended over a hundred-mile front. All the German attempts to force tic passage of the River Xiemen were repulsed. The Forest of Angustovo, through which the Germans are now retreating, is 24 miles from north to south, and 35 miles from cast- to west. It is interI ceptedby a canal connecting the Xiemen and Vistula, and studded with lakes. Heavy rain latterly reduced some parts of the district to a'quagmire. The Russians are operating in the. forest, attacking the German Hank with a view of cutting its communications. The German barbarities in Russian Poland provoked reprisals. Three German officers and 19 soldiers were hanged to trees in one place, to expiate the hanging of six Russian peasants. AUSTRIAN'S SURROUNDED. RUSSIAN'S aiAKE BIG CAPTURES. Received 2, 12.20 a.m. Rome, October J. The Russian Ambassador states that the lleoing'Austrian army was surrounded near Dukla, and the Russians captured ;">OO automobiles, much ammunition, and food. The Russians defeated the Germans in the Suwalki district, and occupied lAugustovo. NO STOP FOR. SIEGES. FORTRESSES 1 WILL BE INVESTED. AND M.VROH ON BERLIN CONTINUED. Rome, September 30. A telegram from Vienna states that the Jluisaians left Przemysl toiiipletely turroundod and 1 two columns are advancing rapidly along the railways in Ualicia, The northern column assaulted Tarnow and the southern occupied iSanok and, advancing westward, cut off a seelion of the Austrian* which the Russian northern army \va» driving southwards. There is every indication that the Russians do not intend to capture Craow, ■but to invest it in a similar munm.v to Przemysl and advance on Breslau end junction with -he Russian centre for the invasion of Germany.