Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 14 January 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

PRISONERS BLINDED WITH VITROL. GERMAN BRUTALITY REACHING THE LIMIT. YOUNG BOYS SHOT. A RUSSIAN VICTORY. London, January 12. A Reutcr message from Petrograd states that among the pitiful sights are the convalescent Russian soldiers at Joberg, who were blinded by the Germans with vitriol. They are walking about town in single file led by a rope. Newspapers state Major CcstenkorJ, commandant at Lodz, ordered the shooting of six boys, whose ages range from eleven to sixteen, for refusing to scout for the Germans.

Petrograd, January 12. Official.—Tlie Russians captured two guns and imprisoned two companies at Karingan on the tenth. AUSTRIAN'S BEATEN IN BUKOVIN.4. A WRETCHEDLY INEFFICIENT ARMY. SOLDIERS ALMOST STARVING. London, January 12. The Chronicle's Milan correspondent says that the Austrians in the Bukovina district were driven out of their camp at Kimpolung in great disorder. Many refugees and soldiers were famished. The condition of the Austrians interned in Roumania showed that they were mostly hastily enrolled with obsolete weapons and had only a fortnight's training.

NEW OPERATIONS PENDING. SERVIANS CONTEMPLATE AN ATTACK. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 12. A correspondent with the Servians says that the situation is stationary. The Austrians are digging themselves in on the northern frontier. Opinion is divided as to whether they will immediately resume the offensive. The Loyal Anzeiger announces tliat new operations arc pending in Servia, which the Austrians regard with the greatest confidence, because the latter have strengthened their forces. Athens, January 12, Albanian insurgents placed guns against Durazzo. Servia, with the En. tente's consent, has occupied strategic positions in North Albania to protect the Servian frontier.

AUSTRO-GERMANS PUSHED BACK, Received 13, 11.20 p.m. Pctrograd, January 13. Private advices regarding the fighting eastward of Cracow show that the Aus-tro-Gerinans are being gradually pushed back towards Czenstochowa. POLAND'S PITIABLE PLIGHT. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS. 'limes and Sydney Sun Services. Received 13, 0.20, p m. ■London, January 13. The Times' correspondent at Warsaw says the devastation m Poland has resulted in deplorable conditions. Thousands are poverty-stricken, having lost erything. Leading Poles are constantly enquiring why, when kindness is lavished on Belgium, there is reJatively Mnall interest in the pathetic and increasingly tragic condition of Polish peasants.

ON THE MAZL'RIA.V LAKES. ICE-BREAKERS AT WORK. Received 13, 7.13 p.m. Petrograd, January 13. The Germans are using ice-breakers on ,tlie Mazurian Lakes, to enable gunboats to operate, and also to prevent the Russians crossing on the ice GERMAN ATTACK INEFFECTIVE. HAND GRENADES IN TIIE TRENCHES. Received 13, 10 p.m. IVtrogiad, January 13. Official: Germans continue their ineffective but stubborn offensive in the Sukha and Mogely district. Six attacks were repulsed. Scouts at some parts of the front threw grenades into the German trenches, causing heavy losses. The Germans left 500 dead at Samice on the night of the 10th.

THE SERVIAN STRUGGLE. AN AUSTRO-GERMAN COMBINATION. London, January 12. The Chronicle's Milan correspondent says tliat the Austrians are moving fresh forces from Hungary to strengthen the Roumanian frontier. The remnant of the Bukovimi army is massed at Dorx. Austria is massing a further 30ft,000 inert against Serviu, which will join (50,000 Germans at Serajevo.