Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

GERMAN COMPANIES CUT DOWN. DISASTROUS ADVANCE ON TOE RAWKA. SMALL-POX IN VIENNA. Pctrograd, February 7. The Germans threw , a barrel bridg.j I over the Rawka and three companies crossed. The Russian guns destroyed tile bridge .and the companies were cut off and shot, bayoncttecl or drowned. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 7. Private letters describe a terrible outbreak of small-pox in Vienna. Tlio Emperor has removed his quarters t.i Schocnbrunn. THE ENEMY'S RESISTANCE SHATTiyiKD. GREAT CAPTURES OF PRISONERS. RETREAT INI THE CARPATHIANS. Received 8, 10.3.") p.m. Pctrograd, February f!. Official.—ln successful night aHriAs at Rypin our artillery routed a col,nan inarching towards Bolimow and capture 1 its guns. Fighting occurred along the whole front in the Carpathians, and shattered tlic enemy's resistance at three fortified positions at. Mezolaborelf. We pursu-d tile enemy for several versts, capturing 172 officers, upwards of 10,000 men, l:S "iins, and 22 machine-guns. The enemy's attacks at Tukholka and 1V.4-.0 passes were repulsed with heavy losses, and they resulted in disorder. A TITANIC STRUGGLE. DEAD PILED THREE FEET IHGII. Received 0. 12,5 a.m. Rome, February S. The Messaggcros' Pctrograd corros|iondent reports that (lie conflict on tlie Vistula and at Rawka was titanic-. Soldiers fell in thousands, the bodies being piled three feet high. The rescue of the wounded was difficult, many being buried under their comrades' corpses.