Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

GERMANS IX RETREAT. Received 14, 0.20 p.m. _ I London, December 14. Official: Russians ■ captured German positions at i'osinyoz and Xieclipow, and r are pursuing the retreating enemy towards tiie frontier, indicting verv serious t losses. "WORSE THAN LOUVAIN." • HORRORS OF Till': POLISH ; INVASION. ; WOMEN AND CHILDREN HANGED. ' DEvSOLATIOX AN]) DISEASE. Received 14, 10.1 r> p.m. Rome, December 14. The Messageros ' correspondent at Warsaw says. "German militarism in Poland has destroyed, sacked, and murdered. Tlie situation surpasses that in Belgium, for there is the additional horror of the Poles fighting each other, there being half a million in the Russian arnly and half a million with the Austrians, and a hundred thousand in the German ranks. ''The fate of Kalisch is worsts than that of Louvain. ''Two detachments of Germans, owing to a mistake, fought each other. In order to conceal their error, they accused the inhabitants of firing on the Germans, ami bombarded the town, killing 50u in,., tants. They hanged another 400, including women and children, and sacked tlie city. "The Germans destroyed 500 villages and twenty small towns. Famine prevails everywhere, and dysentery and cholera are rampant." ) GERMANS' ADVANCE STAYED. I Times and Sydney Stm Services. Received 14, 5.30 p.m. I London, December 13. j The Russian headquarters report that j tlie "Germans, despite all their efforts, I are unable to advance towards either Warsaw or Cracow. | RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CONCLUDED. HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES. Received 15, 12.20 a.m. Petrograd, December 14. Official.—We have concluded our offensive in -the Mlawa region, with success along the entire front. i During the German retreat from Pras- • nysz and Zeichanow, our cavalry success- I I fully attacked, ( Desperate German attacks continue at ' [ Lowicz and Iloff. i [ We inflicted heavy losses, and captured ' a new position at Bzura. c THE FIGHTING IN POLAND. | GERMAN SUCCESSES. l! Amsterdam, December 13. c An official message from Berlin states I that the Germans in Poland captured 1 several positions, taking 11,000 prisoners " and 43 machine-guns. t P INHABITANTS FLEE FROM LODZ. | Petrograd, December 13. j When Lodz was evacuated, the popu- a lation, which was destitute, fled en j, masse, fearing German atrocities. Many reached Warsaw.