Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

RUSSIA'S RADIANT FUTURE. GREAT UNION OF RACES. WAR COSTS £1,400,000 DAILY. Petrograd, February 11. At the opening of the Duma session, the Premier declared that the conquest of Oalicia had rendered stronger the union of the Russian people and the fraternal rapproaehement between the Russian and Polish people. At the same time the Slav tribes were growing closer to one another. The Russian army was stronger than ever, and a radiant futuie for Russia was beginning to dawn on the walls of Constantinople. The war had had little influence! on the domestic and economic life of Russia. The country had not yet exerted its full strength. - M. Sazajioff, traversing Germany's declaration that she had been forced into the- war, declared t-V-at Germany had sought to embroil Russia and the neighbouring countries in the course of intrigues in Scandinavia, Oalicia, Roumania, Turkey, China and Japan.

It was stated in a debate in the Duma that the war was costing Russia £1,400,000 daily.

AUST.RIANS FADE AWAY. WHOLESALE SURRENDERS. PETITIONS FOR PEACE. Pari?, February 11. A Press Bureau correspondent, dolling with the fighting in the Carpathians, pays the Austrian army did not ho'lil out unless led by Germans. In Bohemia and Moravia the regiments of mixed Slavs and Auslro-Gormans are constantly quarrelling, and even some Hungarian regiments are commanded by Germans The great wish of all is that the war should end. The correspondent adds that numbers of Austrian units are so r«du:ed as to be mere shadows of what they were, and some s"cm to have disappeared altogether. From -lie beginning the Bosnians surrendered in large numbers, and then Poles began to arrive fast, and now Bohemian, Roumanian and Italian soldiers in Austria have also come over very easily. Before Cracow large numbers of Bohemians marched to the Russian lines, singing songs and shouting greetings as they surrendered.

The Dacia is unable to sail, the crew having struck, fearing they will be seized by'the British. A number of Hungarian deputies have petitioned Count Rurinn in favour of an early peace, Hungary being threatened with famine and insurrection.

"..MOST INCREDIBLE LOSSES. WHAT MUST THE ACTUAL CASUALTIES REV London, February 12. The Echo de Paris publishes a telegram from Warsaw that after the attack on the Kith at V.y.v.v.i and Rawka was repulsed. -H.O ■() dead Germans were left on the field.

'. russiaxs fall back. great coxcentratiox of german forces. Received 12, 'I SO p.m. Pefrr.-grad. FcVravv :2. (Hiatal: A very grca', (1.-.-maa <eiicentration in East. Prussia is developing the offensive i n the dire-ti<m of Wilk-e.v-szki and Lvck. Our troops are falling h'aek from the Mamrian Lakes, but are holding the eneiuv. We captured the heights east of Lupr.ow Pass, after a stubborn fight, and took a thousand prisoners.' ,

OERMAX OPERATIONS. CAUSE OF FAILURE. EFFECT OX WESTERN OFFENSIVE. PREPARING FOR THE SPRING. Received 13, 12.10 a.m. London, February 12. The Times' military correspondent reviewing the heavy fighting in the Eastern theatre considers that the whole of the German operations have failed because they were planned without proper regard to the strength of the respective forces, and the season. He also considers that the ground of failure will make the Western offensive more difficult, owing to the loss of.mcn, prestige, and inability to withdraw men from the East to the West. Tile Germans are terribly anxious about the spring- campaigns, therefore it is necessary for the Allies to prepare for the enemy's furious attempt to forestall the offensive and reach Paris.