Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 24 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

GERMAN ATTACK FAILED. RUSSIAN RETT?BAT PURELY STRATEGICAL. AUSTRIAN'S DEFEATED IN TUB CARPATHIANS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.30 p.m. London, December 23. Tile London 'Times' Petrograd correspondent maintains that the backward , 'movement along the whole of the Russian front is due to strategical consid- ! (-rations, and was deliberately under, taken by higher command. The German attack north of .the Vistula has plainly failed. The lAustrian movement in the Carpathians has been defeated. PRZEMSYL AND CRACOW. ATTEMPTED RELIEF BY GERMANS. A MASSACRE AT MLAWA. Petrograd, December 22. There are now (>(10,001) Austro-Ger--1 mans in West Galicia attempting to relieve Cracow and Przcinysl. The garrison at Przemysl has sull'ered heavy losses in futile attempts to break through. The Germans in Poland are now trying to outllank the Russians at Opoczno and to force an opening to Sochatshev (near Warsaw). During the fighting at Krasniz, which finally ended in the Germans retreating to Mlawa, the enemy repeatedly assailed the Russian positions, but was swept ■ back with fearful losses. The machine . guns piled up quivering bridges of human bodies. The Germans rushed : forward singing and then fell in heap I with screams and groans. Eighteen at- . taeks were made on December (i, costing the Germans 4000 killed. GERMAN WASTE OF LIFE. | ECONOMY IN OTHER DIRECTIONS. ELEVEN DESPERATE ONSLAUGHTS REPULSED. Received 23, 10.30 p.m. London, December 23. ' The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent, describing the repulse of eleven desperate onslaughts on the Rug. sian trenches in the Sochazcw district, disastrously for the Germans, declares that human life is the only thing in which the Germans are not economic. The men charging were ordered to leave j their tunics behind, so that if they I were killed their uniform would clothe another victim. Every man, before charging, was served with spirits, mixed with ether. TROOP TRAINS COLLIDE. CARRIAGES' SMASHED TO MATCHWOOD. ; ; Received 23,, 10.30 p.m. p London, December 23. Two trainloads of Austrian troops f collided near Kaliscz, owing to a false setting of the points. Several carriages 1 were smashed to watch wood, and a thousand were killed and wounded. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES AT ALL POINTS. I GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES. | AUSTRIANS DEFEATED. 1 PROGRESS IN GALICIA. | Received 24 1.5 a.m. Petrograd, December 23. ■ Official: A series of hard combats took place on Monday, between the lower Vistula and the Pilica river, espe. cially in the region along the left bank of the Pilica. Nearly all the German attacks weer repulsed with great loss. In ony small districts did the Russians retreat somewhat, and then only in order to occupy more convenient positions. ' The Germans who crossed in the Bzura region and at GahrzelY were driven back towards the river. Many were killed, and nine machiue-guns were captured. The Austrians, who crossed the Nida in the region of Skowronno, were driven back over the river at the point of the bayonet. Eighteen officers and a thousand men surrendered. The Russian activity in Galicia is proceeding satisfactorily, inflicting heavy losses, and making many prisoners at Mandt, Rygliee, and elsewhere. The garrison at Przemsyl again sortied in different directions, but were every, where repulsed, with heavy loss.