Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 25 February 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

AN HEROIC RETREAT. FIGHTING OVER 32 MILES. INFLICTING GREAT LOSSES. TREMENDOUS CAPTURES MADE. Received 25, 12.30 a.m. ! Petrograd, February 24. ' Official: During the recent retreat part of the twentieth Army Corps was surrounded between Goldap and Suwalki. They fought heroically, though greatly outnumbered. They marched 32 miles, fighting the whole, way through to the Augustowo forests, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, and barring the way. The Russians'fought to the last cartridge, repelling attacks on four fronts, retaining their artillery, ana bringing in many German prisoners. We exploded three mines beneath the enemy's trenches southward of Moghlcy, killing five hundred.

:, Our captures in the Carpathians for the month ended the 20th, were 690 officers, 47,640 men, seventeen guns 108, Maxims, and two aeroplanes. GERMAN TROOPS FROM THE WEST. ATTAIN FULL STRENGTH INTRANSIT. Received 25, 12.55 a.m. Petrograd, February 24. Official: Despatches state that German troops moved from the west were brought up to their full strength dnrina transit.

GERMAN' BLOW FALLEX SHORT. RUSSIAN'S START THE COUNTERMOVE. London. February 23. The Daily Mail's lVtrograd ' correspondent, says that the crushing blow Germany hope,! to deliver has fallen short, and the Russians have extricated their main body from the jaws of the German pincers. The Russian countermove to the German advance has begun along a_ hundred miles of front, north of the Xarew and Lobr rivers. [The Xarew River is a tributary of the Vistula, whiih runs south-west from Augiistinv to Xovo-Georgievsk, 20 miles north-west of Warsaw.]