Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 150, 1 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS SUCCEED.POSITION SATISFACTORY To' THE GERMANS. Amsterdam, November 29. It is officially stated in Berlin that the situation on the right bank of the Vistula is unchanged. We repulsed attacks in the region of, Lodz, and our counterattacks were successful.

GERMANS MAINTAIN THEIR DEFENCE. ENORMOUS LOSSES REPORTED. AUSTRIAN'S DEFEATED NEAR' CRACOW. Received 30, 7.45 p.m. Petrograd, November 30. Official: Between the Vistula and the Warta the Germans continue to maintain their fortified positions on the Strykow-Zgierz-Schadek, Zounska-Volia line. Fighting is very stubborn in the iStrykow-Zgierz district, where .we captured cannon, machine-guns, and several hundred prisoners. We engaged the enemy along the Glwo-Bieliawy-Sobata front, the Germans jcounter-attacking on the left.bank of the |Tistula. | Prisoners describe German losses as enormous. Many battalions have lost all tlieir officers. Austrians eastward of Cracow were defeated and pursued. We captured 1200 in the Carpathians.

j Russians in several districts in the vicinity of the Mazurian lakes and Angeran river drove back the Germans ,to their fortified positions.

A TEN DAYS' BATTLE. GERMANS LOSE 100,000 KILLED. \ Received 1, 1.5 a.m. London, November 30. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports that the German killed in the ten days' battle between Boura and Lodz are estimated at 100,000.

GERMANS ESCAPING FROM TRAPS. BUT SUFFER TREMENDOUS LOSSES. AUSTRIANS LOSE 58,000. Received 1, li.lo a.m. Petrograd, November 30. The Novoe Vremya says: "The Russians pressed on all sides, striving to force a way to Strykow, through a steadily narrowing corridor. The Russian occupation of Brezin prevents their escape, via Koluszki and Strykow. The wall of the corridpr moved westward, and all along it, between Brezin and Olovno, the Cossacks are attacking the German flank. Despite the enemy's high valour and tactical skill, his efforts in this region are desti'ned to be futile/ Entire battalions, half frozen and starving, were separated from their units in the Lodz district, and willingly surrendered. It is estimated that the Austrian.? taken prisoners since the nth in the Raba and Cracow district are 58,000. London, November 30. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports that the surrounded Germans, except the captured division, broke through the side of the Russian trap, but are still imperilled.