Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 25 November 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

!GERMANS ADMIT REVERSES. BUT PUT IT POLITELY. WHY RUSSIA IS INVINCIBLE. Amsterdam, November 23. A communique from Berlin declares that tin; arrival of fresh troops from Warsaw deferred the decisive result in Poland. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, November 23. A correspondent at Warsaw says that already Russia must have lost heavily, but the losses mean little to her, as she is a man-millionaire who never feels poorer, however many she spends. Peasants and soldiers are deeply calm in the presence of suffering and death. The idea of a glorious death is spiritual meat and drink. They love their brother soldier alive, and when dead he becomes holy. This makes the Russians almost invincible.

GERMANS ROUTED. GUNS ABANDONED. Received 24, 9.13 p.m. Petrograd, November 24. Private advices report a rout of the Germans between the Vistula and Warta. Large bodies were surrounded and captured at Lowicz, the enemy abandoning their guns. | " | OBSTINATE FIGHTING- _____ ( IMPETUOUS GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. • i FIVE THOUSAND AUSTRIAXS CAPTURED. Received 24, 11 p.m. Petrograd, November 24. Official: Fighting on the Vistula and Warta continues obstinately, especially north of Lode. Everywhere the impetuous German attacks were repulsed. Russians captured 50(H) Austrians at Gv/eustr>cl;awa, on the Cracow line.