Eastern Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 5

Eastern Campaign

FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE VISTULA. GERMANS SUSTAIN ENORMOUS L( iSSES. CONTINUOUS BATTLE IN BUKOYINA. RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE CARPATHIANS. Received 10, :! p.m. Petrograd, January Official.—Fighting on the SukhaMoghilcv front, on the left bank of the Vistula, is increasingly fierce. The Germans, notwithstanding heavy losses, are stubbornly attacking different points. The enemy captured some advanced trenches, but our vigorous counter-attacks, usually with the bayonet, forced them to relinquish them. We occupied Kimptolung on the (ith, and are continually fighting in Bukovina. During the last week we covered 120 versts, and reached the mountain range dividing Bukovina and Hungary. A\ e captured a thousand Austrian®, and much booty. GERMAN SOLDIERS SACRIFICED LIKE WATER. RIDGES Of' i!I!EY-CLAD DEAD. THIRTY THOUSAVLt KILLED IN ONE Xl'i'lT. GERMAN' ATTACK A GHASTLY !• A) LURE. Recei ''l 11.. .3 '2O p.m. London, January 0. The Daily i aruni di's Poland correspondent, speak : ng of the lighting from Cracow to Rawka, n ports that for thirty-six hours the I attic shifted like a moving llame in a long line. The intensity has now abated. The Germans entirely failed to accomplish their plans with gaastly loss to themselves. The light at Cra-ow was characteristic of "t"ie encounters along the whole front. The Germans' attack was exceptionally heavy throughout New Year's Day, culminating in an infantry assault by night. The German artillery throughout the clay lavishly shelled the Russian trenches with huge 32-centimetre howitzers. During uie infantry charge the German Generals sacrificed men like water, and the ground became heaped with ridges of grey-clad dead. Upwards of OuoO Germans were killed at Cracow alone, and one night's abortive fighting along the front cost them ::'|,ooo dead and three times as many wounded.

ANOTHER HALF MILLION MEN. THIS YEAR'B RESERVES-CALLED UP. Received 10, 3 p.m. Petrograd, January 0. The levy of recruits for 1915, numbering 385,000 is being called up. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, January 9. Recruits for 1915 are called up by February lath.

MORE "KULTUR.' : GERMAN POLICY OF DEVASTATION. "LEAVE ONLY THE BARE EARTH!" Received 10, :i p.m. London, January 9. The Chronicle's Poland correspondent states that the Kaiser's latest proclamation, found on some prisoners, states that, if compelled to retire in Poland, they are to leave standing neither house nor town, only the bare earth underfoot.