Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 14 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

DESPERATE FIGHTING AT LOWICZ. GERMANS ATTACKING AGAIN. Received 13, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, December 12. Official.—'The Germans maintained an energetic offensive at Madja on Thursday. The Russians drove back some columns in disorder on Wednesday and Thursday. A series of desperate attacks were made at Lowicz, which the Russians repulsed with enormous lossc3. The Russian offensive at Cracow continues. They captured a number of guns and 2000 prisoners. RUSSIANS LOSE/IKAVILY. EIGHTY THOUSAND PRISONERS. Received 14, 12.35 a.m. Amsterdam, November 13. A Berlin official message states: The German losses in the Lodz and Lowicz districts, and between Pabianice and the j Vistula, were much below the Russian. Our estimate of the is 150,000 including 80,000 prisoners sent | to Germany.

A SIIOUT FROM AUSTRIA. CONTINUOUSLY AMD VICTORIOUSLY ADVANCING. Received 14, 1.35 a.m. Amsterdam, Deceml)er 13. An official message from Vienna states tliat tho Austrians are continuously and victoriously advancing in the' Carpathians. They have captured 2000 Russians. The garrison at Przemysl sortied and captured 700 Russians, IS machineguns, and a quantity o£ ammunition. FROM THE RUSSIJOTSIDE. GERMAN OFFENSIVE REPULSED. Received 14, 1.5 a.m. Petrograd, December 13. The German offensive has hitherto failed in every direction. Simultaneous attacks at several point» on the Russian centre, right, and left were repulsed, with heavy German losses, the Russians merely moving their troops from the rear. Official: The Russians captured an additional 2000 prisoners and four guns southward of Cracow. Considerable Austrian forces have been discovered in the vicinity of the river Dunajee. MORE GERMAN CULTURE. DEFENCELESS PRISONERS SHOT DOWN. I Received 13. !i.!5 p.m.

Petrogrnd, December 12. A non-commissioned officer who escaped from the Germans at Lodz states that h e and two odici-rs and thirty men were imprisoned in :i stable for three days. Their tunics were removed, and they were kept without food. When they asked for water the Germans knocked them down with the butt-ends of their rides. Finally machine-guns wore trained on (lie stable amid jeering laughter, and all were killed except three, who escaped by feigning death. NO COUGHING AT NIGHT. When Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery has been taken before bedtime, but a deep, refreshing sleep to fit you for another day's work. Price, Is Cd and 3s, Obtainable everywhere. Found at J. McNeil's store a little packet, containing a wonderfully quick cure for Catarrh, Hay Fever, Cold in the