Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 190, 20 January 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

.M'lj-:;-: ,v.'ivwCiT!:v--, A RUSSIAN PROTKS'i'. 1 'RIKSTS PA RT ICUT.AIS LY 1!A l>T,\' TREATED. I'ctrog-re.d, Jaiiiiary IS. The Ct ivcrnment ha:; najuesteil tinSpanish Embassy to complain to the German and Austrian Governments soldiers' atrocities and of ambulance mm who methodically dispatched and mutilated. wounded Russians. Several Cossacks were hanged as a result of a German commander's general order. Th 1 Germans shot civilians at Kalixch without reason. Prussians murdered a prie-:i. at Koviki. The Austrians at IMakovo and Chatava violated women and girls and ill-treated the population, particularly priests, for refusing to give inf rnmtion regarding the Russian army. The Germans also misused the white liag. GRTIMAN ATTACKS ItKPf.TLSER Petrograd, Janunvy IS. A coinmuni([iie states: ''We during ii'itht- 10-occnpied trench at Gnunine. Ad the defenders c,--ie l'ille I.' Two C-rinati counter-attaeks were, fruitless. Cer.'i-.aii night, att.iai.s on the Guli.i- ---\ issuli'ka. front were discevered by •••• arcliliglits and repulsed. Our artillery baulked efforts to bombard Sarn-off." ON THE GALICrAN FRONT. A BRILLIANT SCALING FEAT. A BATTALION SURRENDERS. • Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 18. An ofliccr returned from the Galician front states that the Russians hold all the important passes. He records the brilliant feat of a Caucasian regiment. Holding the tails of mountain ponies at night time, they scaled ail apparently impassable summit, audi getting to the rear, surprised and secured the surrender of a Konvcd battalion. IIKAVY AUSTRIAN LOSSES. j Received 20, 1 40 a.m. •iVtrograd, January 10. During the 'a>t lev!night in December General Doitricfl taptureil .'ill Austrian onieers. and 22.?00 soldiers, and 52 gnus.