Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 12 February 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

RUSSIANS HOLD THEIR OWN. HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE MOUNTAINS. ADVANCING IN PRUSSIA. GERMANS' SACRIFICES UNAVAILING. London, February Jti. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent states that the Russians aiv firmly holding their own in East Prussia and are advancing between the Chorcellen and Johannisburg front and the lo\ver reaches of the Vistula. The Russian advance on the left of the Vistula at its confluence with the Bzura, contrives. The Germans have cont'cnl.i.'.] themselves With artillery Are since the frantic attacks at Borjimoff were cheeked. .

Petrograd, February 10. The Germans on Sunday brought up their best troops to reinforce tha Austrinns in the, Tukolk Pass, themselves leading the attack. Many reached the topmost position at Koziamaka, but tinker (he Russian flank fire from pavallel heights were cut off from the main Gc'man forces. The Russians charged with indescribable dash up the slopes of the snowclad hills.

A shocking spectacle was revealed cn Monday morning. Thousands of bodies were lying in front of a single Russsian battalion.

London, February 10. Mr Donolioe, correspondent of Hie baily Clironicle, states that the Russians are strongly pressed and are retreating in Bukovina. They will probably attempt to hold Czernowitz.

AN IRRETRIEVABLE ROUT. GERMANS' MASSED FORMATION FAILS AGAIN. UNEXAMPLED UAYONET FIGHTING. STUPENDOUS LOSSES OF THE ENEMY. Received 11, f1.50 p.m. Peirograd, February 11. The Russian posit-on at Kozio Maku, between Styre and Munkacs, is screened to the southwards by dense forests, whereas tin enemy is unable to erous an extensive glacis fronting the Pus sians without their movements being known and coming under a '■ weeping ar-: t'.llery fire. At dawn on Sunday the enemy's inf;.ntry was hurled forward with terriffia impetuosity under cover ol a furious artillery fire. They relied npon the momentum of enormous lumbers to drive the Russians out. Remorselessly and unceasingly ■ they scrambled up the slopes, in four or five closely ranged lines,

Huge gaps were torn in the front ranks, but they were rapidly filled. Thousands fell, but still the human wave swept on and invaded a portion of the Russian trenches. .

A battery posted on the enemy's flank poured in a. raking crossfire. Lient.en.mt OhebeiiyaefT, unsatisfied with the result.?, obtained permission to move the gun into the open, and, advancing through a thick storm of shell, enfiladed t.he enemy's lines and lightened the defenders' task.

After an unexampled bayonet battle, the enemy were driven out, nnd tlioy fled downhill in an irretrievable rout, though for sonio time they fought with tremendous tenacity.

The losses were stupendous, the contorted bodies of the slain being sharply silhouetted against the snow. The enemy's attempt to scale the heights i, v the depth of winter, in many degrees of frost, was an audacious one.

SUCCESS IN MOUNTAIN FIGHTS. Received 11, 9 30 p.m. Petrograd, February 11. Official: We captured twenty-thwo. officers. 1500 men and several gnna in the Dukla, Lupkow, and Uszok passes.