The Russian Advance

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 5

The Russian Advance

ANOTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

THEIR OBJECTIVES EXPLAINED.

Received 6, 8.30 p.m. Rome, October 0.

Russians have occupied Losszumezo. Cossacks crossed the Tesza river and cut the railway at Szigeth. The Russian objectives are, firstly, to safeguard the left flank operating on the San river to Cracow; and, secondly, to open a new field of action for tho cavalry on the Hungarian plains, to disturb the drilling of Hungarian reservists and hinder the provisioning of the Austrian arm v. ji,.

GUERILLA WARFARE IN POLAND.

WHOLESALE HANGINGS,

Received 0, 5.43 p.m.

London, October 5,

Polish peasants at Kailsz engaged in guerilla warfare against the Germans. The latter hanged six peasants to a tree and horribly mutilated the bodies. The Guerillas captured three German officers and 119 Prussians, and hanged them to neighboring trees.

THE ADVANCE ON ALLENSTEIN

ENORMOUS GERMAN CASUALTIES,

Received (i, 10.45 p.m. Rome, October 5. The Russian Embassy officially states that two Russian armies are proceeding towards Allcnstein from the east and south. The Herman casualties are supposed to reach 70,000.

Allenstein is a town in East Prussia, 81 miles by rail south of Koenigsberg; population 27,500.

DECISIVE FIGHT EXPECTED.

BOTH SIDES EXHAUSTED. WHOLE COMPANIES OF GERMANS "MELTED AWAY." Received 7, 12.35 a.m. Petrograd, October 5.

The Germans are still masters of parts of the province at Kieler and Petrokoff, and are now deploying in anticipation of a decisive engagement. At least five German army corps weie, engaged at Suwalks. The bombardment destroyed threefifths of the town of Bruskeniki.

Botii sides arc thoroughly exhausted, and the fighting was suspended by tacit consent on the night of the 20th. On tho following night the enemy moved further north. A Russian mortar and howitzers, cleverly concealed in t.V I ; woods, burled shells on the massed erit.my, and whole companies melted away, 11,000 'being taken prisoners.

TIIE CZAR AT THE FRONT. Received '-6, 8.20 p.m. Petrograd, October '5. The Czar lias armed at the front. THE ROUT AT AUGUSTOVO. 'GERMANS HOTLY PURSUED. Petrograd, October 5. Official.—The battle .at Augustovo ended with the Germans being completely routed and fleeing hotly pursued towards Che frontier, abandoning convoys, guns, munitions and the "wounded.