Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

PURSUING TIIE GERMANS. Rcccjved 18, 11.45 js.ni. Petrograd, December IS. Official: The Russians towards >Mlava, vigorously pursuing the defeated Germans, a large number of whom crossed the. frontier, captured prisoners and several guns. There has been no engagement of importance on the. left bank of the Vis. tula or in Galicia. • TILE TREMENDOUS LOSSES AT LODZ. I i Received ID, 1.20 a.m. Petrograd, December 18. I It is estimated that the German losses j in the Lodz district, comprising killed, wounded, and prisoners, are Hjo,ooo, and the Russian losses 1-20,000. Prisoners state that the Kaiser ordered \\ arsaw to bo taken at all costs. THE TRAIL OF THE AUSTRIAN DEBACLE. Times and Sydney Sun Services Received 18, 5.45 p.m. Lomhn, December 18. Along the trail of the. Austrian army in .Servia lie myriads of evidences of the completeness of the debacle. The roads are strewn with impedimenta and corpses, all unoccupied houses and shops have been looted. The most striking feature is the appalling filthiness of the houses the Austrians occupied. The hospitals, containing 3000 wounded, at Valievo resemble a manure-heap, and it is impossible to enter owing to the stench. i i < : i < < ' :

SOLDIERS' HARDSHIPS. Received 18, 5.45 p.m. Rome, December 18. Of 800 severely wounded from Oalicia, who have arrived at Trieste, 300 are doomed to amputation of hands and feet owing to frostbite. I IN TIIE CARPATHIANS, FIGHTING IN GALICIA. Petrograd, December 17. Jhe German Hanking operations in the Carpathians and on the Vistula are being conducted on an immense scale. With his reinforcements .General llinderberg has now twenty corps (8,000,000 men) on thi' Polish front, enabling him to send two corps to Hungary. The 170,000 Austro-Germans who crossed the Carpathian passes include three Austrian corps which were recently withdrawn from Servia. ' Petrograd reports that Austrian coluniiis are pouring over the Dukla passes into Galicia. 'The Grand Duke Nicholas records the fact without comment. Military opinion fully endorses his attitude of complete equanimity. Paris, December 17. An Austrian communique states: "We are pursuing the Russians on the entire front in Galicia and South Poland. We advanced at Zakliezyn and recaptured Boehnia. The Russians have not yet abandoned their advance in the lateral valleys of the Carpathians."