Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 5 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

THE FIGHTING IK POLAND. A RECORD BATTLE. ANTI-AUSTRIAN FEELING. ~ ' PROBABLE REVOLUTION IN BOHEMIA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 4, 5.30 p.m. London, December 3. The correspondent of a Paris journal describes the fighting in Poland as a cyclone of men and horses'in a sea offire. He states it was the, most agitate(l battle that has been fought since the Napoleonic wars. The movements were so rapid that the generals had constantly to change their places. Anti-Austrian feeling i 3 rapidly increasing among the Czech population in Bohemia, and on their arrival the Russians will probably provoke a revolution. ONSLAUGHT OF Till? SIBERIANS.

AWFUL CARNAGE CONTINUES. Petrograd, December 3. German reinforcements from Kalisz engaged in a desperate encounter near Lask/ and were repulsed. The carnage was terriblo. Whole regiments fell under the, Siberians' onslaught. The Russians, by re-taking Strykow regained possession of the Lodz-Warsaw railway.

The Russian plan to envelop the German left flank south of Plock is progressing. The Russian movements as a ■whole are maturing towards final vic--tory. It is stated that the failure' of the enveloping schenio a week ago was due to the late arrival of General Rcnnenliainpf's army, which should liavc closed the trap. It is added that General Rennenkamp lias been superseded. . One hundred and twenty captured German and Austrian oflicers, including two generals, six colonels and eighteen majors, have been taken to ICieff.

PRZEMYSL'S DESPERATE STATE. ENORMOUS MORTALITY. FAMINE AND PILLAGE. Received 4, 7.30 p.m. Rome, December 3. The Archbishop of Przemysl describes the position of the city as desperate. There have been an enormous mortality among the garrison, the stores of provisions are exhausted, and the soldiers and populace are suffering from hunger. The authorities had lost control, and plundering is rife.

MILITARY HOSPITALS INSPECTED. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN - , ATROCITIES. COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION. TERRIBLE REPRISALS THREATENED. HORRORS IN GALICIA. Received 4, 10.30 p.m. London, December 4. Reuter's Petrograd correspondent states that the Czar is touring the military hospitals, in central and southern Russia. '

Owing to many cases of German and Austrian treatment of the wounded on battlefields being, prima facie, so atrocious, a committee, presided over by the Grand Duchess Militza, lias sent; representatives to the front to investigate. Refugees from Lodz testify that the Germans are using ammunition waggons marked with the Red Cross.

Terrible reprisals arc threatened if-the Germans continue murdering peaceful citizens in cold blood, as they are reported to have done.

Dependents of Russians living in Galicia before the war are in a piteous ! plight. The Austrians arrested ten thousand Russians on the outbreak of war, a thousand there being executed. While the Russians were advancing through Ualicia they rescued two thousand, the remainder having been sent to the interior of Austro-Hungary and their fate is unknown. FIGHTING CONTINUES. LARGE GERMAN FORCES TRANSPORTED. Received 5, 1 a.m. Petrograd, December 4. A communique states that the fighting continues in the Lowicz district. Large German forces- have been transported, principally from the western front, and Germany has begun an offensive movement against Lutomersk. and Szczerczow. We have taken Bartfeld, capturing eight officers, twelve hundred men, and six machine guns. RUSSIANS NIGHT ATTACK. 300 PRISONERS CAPTURED. INCLUDING 40 WOMEN. Received 5, 12.40 a.m. Petrograd. December 4. Seventy Cossaeks, dividing into ten sections, dashed from Czenstochowa at night and killed a number of Germans. They drove , into the Russian lines three hundred, of the enemy, including forty women dressed as soldiers.