Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 191, 21 January 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

ON THE LOWER VISTULA. THE JiiNEMY PALLS BACK. GERMANS' HEAVY LOSSES. Received 20, 11.25 p.m. Petrograd, January 20. Official: A series of encounters occurred throughout the 17th on the right bank of the Lower Vistula, on a front extending from the river to the Olva-Warsaw railway. The enemy's offensive was repulsed at Aglerzin, and they fell back with heavy loss. No change is reported from the other front. A WEIRD WATCH-NIGHT SERVICE. COSSASKS DEVOTIONS AT THE FRONT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 19. A correspondent at the front in Poland says that Cossacks on New Year's Eva, amid fierce fighting, held a religious service. Just when the priest had .pronounced the words "Glory to God in the Highest," a shell struck the wall with a deafening explosion. Nobody stirred, and a group of officers repeated in chorus the priest's words. The service was finished and the battle resumed.

"JUST COMMON FODDER." CONTEMPT FOR THE PRIVATE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Loffldon, January 19. A correspondent describing the Austrian retreat at Valieve says 300 wounded were left in charge of thirteen doctors and an ambulance staff. The wounded were lying anywhere, suffering and dying in appalling filth. The Austrian soldier, in the eyes of his superiors, ceases to be worthy of consideration the moment ho is put out of action. He is just common fodder. AUSTRIAN DESERTERS FROM CRACOW. FOUND IN A CELLAR.

Petrograd, January 19. Some Russians in Galicia opened a trap-door of a cellar in a chateau despite a warning not to open it owing to poisonous gases. They found 200 Austrians, deserters from Cracow, who had been hiding there for five weeks. THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS' IDEAL. TO MARCH INTO BERLIN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 20, 5.40 p.m. Loudon, January 20. An Englishman returned from the eastern theatre says that every Russian is bent on marching to Berlin, and, judging by conversations he had with officers and men, they will not stop till they get there.