Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

AUSTRIANS "DECLINE" THE RUSSIAN ATTACK. ANOTHER NAME FOR THE RETREAT. FIGHTING IN ICY FLOODS. : SIEGE ()!•' CRACOW RAISED AGAIN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Petrograd, December 20. '[lie press states that Russia has provided against all the German resources and the Kaiser will see that despite the energy, skill- and saci "vfices of his armies Russian doggedness and perseverance will finally crush Germany, inflicting an irreparable blow. Vienna, December 29. A communique states: "We declined the Russian attack north of the Dukla Pass, and are now in positions nearer the ridge of the Carpathians." London, December 20. Advices from Hungary state that two regiments at Przemysl made sorties nightly for a fortnight, and seldom more than one regiment returned. The garrison has now lost thirty thousand men. During the fighting at Latovoza, despite the Russian bombardment of the , ice, the Austrians attempted to cross. The Russians attacked, and hand-to-hand combats ensued. The ice broke, and the struggles were continued in the icy water. Often foes helped one another on to the ice and fought on. Petrograd reports that the Russian investment of Cracow has again been raised. Following tlie discovery that the Austrians were attempting to divide the Russians in Galicia, the Russians retreated eastwards for fifty miles. Dispatches from Galicia state that the Russians crossed the Bialo River and seized the country southward of Tarnow, thereby separating two Austrian armies. !It is anticipated that the freezing of the soft ground will prove an advantage , to the Russians and precipitate decisive operations. THE AUSTRIAN ROUT. FIFTY THOUSAND PRISONERS. HOT PURSUIT BY THE RUSSIANS. Received 31, 12.55 a.m. Petrograd, December 30. Official: Fifty thousand Austrians (have been taken prisoners in the past I fortnight. I Their flight across the Carpathians } surpassed the former routs. Staff docuYments, money, and immense quantities |of arms have been abandoned, and the Russian cavalry are hotly pursuing, J making many prisoners. ENEMY LESS ACTIVE. Received 30, 9.25 p.m. Petrograd, December 30. Official. —The enemy is less active at Rawka, and between the Pilicia and the upper Vistula. [ The Russians, after storming two vilr lages on the Nida, took forty Austrian officers 1700 prisoners and captured many | additional guns and quickfirers in / Galicia.