The Eastern War.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 2 November 1914, Page 5

The Eastern War.

GERMANY YVITtmRAWS TKOOI •. "TILL CALAIS ■ FALLS." DATE AS YET UNSTATED. Received 1, 2.20 p.m. Copenhagen, Uel.ober :'.}. It is repelled at Berlin that t'C •..■■!■- man general si air lias deride I thai ihe iM'inv in I'oV.ui,! *\>.n\\ retirs to til' "-l!r> in frontier, and remain on the (It. , ; siv until Ciilai- is taken. Three <"• lour army corps »>,. being lieljji'.nw.

THIO FIGHTING IN EAST PRUSSIA. GERMANS' REARGUARD ATTACKED. Received 1, 2.20 p.m. Petrograd, October 30. Ollicial: Hard lighting continues in Ka.-t Prussia, where persistent German attacks have been repulsed, and the Russians are pressing the German rearguards along a front extending from Lodz to Zawikost, at the junction of the San and the Vistula. They have captured many heavy guns and aeroplanes. GERMANS TRAPPED IN A FOREST. BY AN IMMENSE RUSSIAN ARMY.

Received 1, 4.30 p.m. London, Octobc 31. Regarding the lighting in Poland, it :•> sta'ed that an immense Russian army nossed the Vistula, deployed along the entire front, and closed Ivoth ends of ihe Radom forest, forcing thousands of Germans into positions where thev probably must capitulate.

IMMENSE FUNERAL PYRE. Received 1, 4.30 p.m. Ivondon, October 3], The Germans have radical methods of disposing of their dead. They seized a large sawmill, and laid twelve hundred bodies in layers of paraffin-Soaked limbec, making a pyre Ifhe height of a six-storey house, which burned for three clays, fed by German soldiers. THE AUSTRG-GERMAN FLIGHT. PURSUED PY TWO MILLION ■ RUSSIANS. .INHABITANTS IMPEDE TIIL'. RETREAT.

Received 1, 10.20 p.m. Rome Oeiobcr 111. A message from Pctrogr.ul states that the Austro-Germans are retreating, abandoning many prisoners, dr.ning mny pr!snui>rs The. inhabitants of Poland are. destroying bridges, impeding tile retreat. Two million Riwian troop* :uv Solowing the ntre'.ttin.'r u'lnies

AUSTRIAN'S DEFEATED IN GALICIA. '■■ ALLIES CHANG IXC HRAIN AND I BRAWN. j ~ ~ " j London, Octo'wr Hi). > l.\ "Bucharest tehgram >avs that the ; Russians re-occupied Czernowi!;- (in the ! east of Galieia) on Monday, fr. Sowing a defeat inflictqd on Austrians at Bojana. The Times' Peh-ograd cow. ,i, o ,„],. n t, announces that the Rrit'-h and Russian Governments have agreed io the jnitual- ; ly advantageous exc'inm.v si' xmsiat-' ants and technical Ts. details have not been jiubli■■.'..■ !. i ; Bcinii a eo.'i.bi?.,, 1 <... ~■' t,i..iy. t-. ,n,., ; land herlK, con,!, m. ■., i„i.-> ' utoj ' i doses, KURAI'ICri 'C ,-.,.■. ■, mis.,, oij-.is . late ea«es of iuli.';.'.>'. s IT )<•■:. y?\ o'iI tainah'e in ji,nr iuwi:, hm. vc..;.' ai.uro ' keeper to go! it from .rbrsss* .Kr.uer and Co. TO-DAY.