The Eastern War.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 129, 24 October 1914, Page 5

The Eastern War.

■PRECIPITATE GERMAN RETREAT. HiARD FIGHTING IN GALICIA. RUSSIANS SUCCESSFUL NEAR PRZEMSYL. Received 24, ] .40 a.m. Petrograd, October 23. Oflicial: The Germans' precipitate retreat from Warsaw continues, also that of the Austro-German armies on the Ivangogod and Novolexandria roads. Hard fighting is proceeding *n Galieia. The Russians, advancing between Precm&yl and the Vistula, captured 30 officers, 2000 men, and many Maxims. CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY OF THE SIBERIANS. CAUCASIANS' EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE. PITEOUS TALES OF GERMAN OUTRAGES. Petrograd, October 22. The official reporter pa>vs a tribute to the courage of the Siberians, who were detrained in a suburb of Warsaw and immediately engaged in the great battle. They inflicted terrible losses with the bayonet, and captured many prisoners. The reporter adds that the Caucasians showed extraordinary courage. Near Kozisniel they fought for eight days in a deep bog on the left bank of tin; Vistula, exposed to heavy artillery lire, but repulsed all attacks, though the Germans had all the advantages of the ground. Despite heavy losses, the Caucasians did not yield a yard, and frequently saved the most desperate situations, enabling other troops to be free for action.

Referring to the great battle south of the Przeinysl, the reporter says that the Austrians are fighting in confusion, and have had enormous losses. London, October 22. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Grodno journeyed along the line which was the scene of the recent fighting in Russian territory on the East Prussian border. He states that the Germans wantonly devastated villages, everywhere burning housos, pillaging, and smashing furniture.. Churches were invariably gutted and defiled. There were piteous tales of the shooting of peasants and outrages on women and girls, which had highly incensed tie Russian soldiers. Siberians boro the brunt of the fighting at Augustovo. Some marched forty miles, starting at midnight, and then went into action at Raigrod and ended with a bayonet, charge, about which the regiments are still boasting. The Germans dug themselves, with their usual thoroughness, into trenches five feet deep, with earthworks in front, zig-zagging as a precaution against enfilading.